<p>DD have always gone to a private school and I would like her to go to a private University with large population of private high school kids.
DD has Stanford, MIT and Princeton as her narrowed choices. I feel among the three Princeton fit the criteria most.</p>
<p>Is it correct? Will she be most comfortable at Princeton?</p>
<p>There’s plenty of riff-raff at Princeton too.</p>
<p>Why would you want her to “hobnob with snob kids”? Is she a snob, too?</p>
<p>This has got to be one of the weirdest questions I’ve ever read on CC.</p>
<p>Yes, by all means send her to Princeton. She may end up with a ‘riff raff’ roomate like Michelle Obama.</p>
<p>MIT and Stanford are both filled with riff-raff. You know, the kind of riff-raff that will start a company in a garage and go on to become insanely rich. Don’t know about Princeton.</p>
<p>I’d say she’s more likely to see the ghost of Albert Einstein at Princeton than at the other two places. Is she comfortable with ghosts?</p>
<p>She won’t get to hobnob with the snobs, but maybe she’ll be allowed to shine their shoes or make their tea, and somehow learn more about refined ways just by watching them. That would be good too.</p>
<p>P’ton might have Albert Einstein’s ghost but then they also have:</p>
<p>my son…</p>
<p>sigh…</p>
<p>imagine flip-flops in the winter, runs daily along the river banks in mud and snow, in the nastiest, stinkiest clothes, is probably not the neatest eater (LOVES, LOVES to eat), his buddy a classics major has been know to refer to him as a Troglodyte, I think he lacks volume control…</p>
<p>He does clean-up well, but did misplace his cuff links for his tux the last formal and used paper clips instead, shined his shoes with black marker…neat</p>
<p>Don’t think his graduating from a SOUTHERN small rural PUBLIC high school would quite fulfill the “snob” private ed requirement you have but I know he welcomes all the new students with his own brand of hospitality!!</p>
<p>Lots of big, gnarly bear hugs!! Usually after his workouts and runs…</p>
<p>My little gentleman!</p>
<p>Enjoy the decision!!!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>While this seems like a ■■■■■ post, I’ll bite anyway. No ivy will really suit your needs. The schools that are primarily prep school, wealthy kids are a good tier below the ivies. Schools like Trinity, SMU, Bates and other small LACs without great aid get the most of this crowd.</p>
<p>katwkittens – sounds like a nice interesting sweet kid.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Four years at Cleveland State, Wyoming or Cal State-Northridge might do her a lot more good.</p>
<p>Problems with those 3 schools are that they don’t charge enough tuition and award generous need-based FA to bring in too many riff-raff. </p>
<p>Isn’t Bennington still at the top of the heap for tuition? IIRC they don’t guarantee to meet EFC. Perhaps that will keep some of the poseurs out. LOL</p>
<p>Hmmm…
Accepted to Stanford, MIT, and Princeton and making a choice among them.
Three schools with very different personalities.</p>
<p>Where did she feel the most comfortable?</p>
<p>You mean look for a rich partner? How ridiculous a question. Perhaps the kid isbetter off going straight to work… at Niemans</p>
<p>All three schools have really let their guards down in recent decades - letting in all sorts of kids from public schools and what not. Hardly a single trust fund kid in sight anymore.</p>
<p>Especially when more than half the students in attendance are now coming from public high schools :eek:</p>
<p>Kat, you gave me my laugh for the day.</p>
<p>Unusual that OP was focused on merit and $ aid in other posts.</p>
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<p>No, she is not but I’m and I would like her to be snob too. I think it is important for girls to be snob.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of the stone creature residing under the Aurora Bridge :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>On the off chance that this not a joke, I’ll reply that you write as though English is not your first language. In which case you need to know that “snob” is an entirely negative word. Very few parents would actually want their kid to be a snob.</p>