NYC Moms/Dads: Is It Possible to Get Into HYP From NYC Without a Hook?

cloverdale7
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:55:18 +0000

In 1972 my friend from Bronx Science --just a normal, smart Jewish girl-- was admitted to Princeton, but she decided to go to Oberlin instead. So I suppose admission wasn’t entirely unheard of --but perhaps Princeton wasn’t always the first choice of these students, even when they were admitted, back then. Just as Princeton may have stayed away from the NYC magnet kids well --you know, Princeton didn’t have the best reputation among kids in those schools, as I recall: It was considered somewhat racist, somewhat closed: And especially in the 1970s, with the political awakening of that group, a place like Princeton wasn’t coveted. Yale was much more acceptable --Columbia, UPenn, much more desirable.