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

TutuTaxi
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:29:17 +0000

the best thing Princeton could do to make itself a better place academically was to admit fewer suburban jocks from Montana and more kids from NYC public magnets.



You obviously have NEVER been to Montana and must not know anyone from Montana. First, the few students in Montana applying to HYP are the kids of eastern transplants. Second, no half-way respectable Montana jock would ever consider HYP. They may have heard of HY but P will get you a polite stare. Third, if HYP failed to take students from Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming – that still would not open up enough spots for all of the brilliant, amazing, but rejected east coast students.

Would some one explain to me why the parents of all of these amazing students have not used their considerable resources to make their own in-state institutions more academically desirable?