<p>Yes, coming from a community college myself, I can confirm the institution as being a bastion for nose-thumbing snobbery. There’s a lot of “I’m not here, this isn’t happening!” type posturing. There’s also a lot of rich kids who’ve been deposited there by parents who don’t know what else to do with them.</p>
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<p>I don’t see any negative here. A lot more (exponentially more) people hobnob with President Obama than people used to hobnob with Mr. Obama at Harvard.</p>
<p>Let us poll how many of you or yours kids have hobnob with Mr. Obama during his high school and how many will hobnob now with President Obama.</p>
<p><em>munches popcorn</em></p>
<p>I love this place!</p>
<p>Those are hangers-on and sycophants. The sucker-fish of society. They are to be reviled.</p>
<p>And I’m sure he knows the difference between the “hobnobbers” and the “real deals”. .;)</p>
<p>The answer to your question is yes – Princeton probably has the highest proportion of kids from the kinds of backgrounds you’re talking about. </p>
<p>This might be a good reason NOT to go there.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of college is the opportunity it gives young people to meet others from a wide variety of backgrounds. Kids who go to colleges where everyone is like them miss out on this benefit. </p>
<p>And by the way, President Obama went to an elite private high school in Hawaii (Punahou) that was probably a lot like the high school your daughter attends.</p>
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<p>This is what happens when we go hob nobbing</p>
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<p>This is the funniest thread I’ve seen in awhile.</p>
<p>Personally, I think this question should be in the FAQ section of the Princeton brochure.</p>
<p>My kid didn’t give a rat’s :eek: what a high school kid’s daddy did (or as in Obama’s case, was even around). Doesn’t care in college. Won’t care in the big world. And if she ever did, she’d get an earful. But then again, she was raised differently than yours. Lot’s of worthwhile things to learn from people at all SES’s. No need to make your world so small and lifeless.</p>
<p>Broad horizons make for really nice sunrises and sunsets out here in the big country. ;)</p>
<p>ummm, better watch out. With their new emphasis on financial aid over the past couple of years, P’ton and the othe Ivies are recruiting trailer trash. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Only 29.5% of the admitted class of 2013 at Princeton attend private school.</p>
<p>As far as MIT goes, a quote from their admission blog from a few years ago says,</p>
<p>“At MIT, compared with our “peer institutions,” we have one of the lowest percentages of private school students in our student body, and a great deal of those private school students are from religious schools of various sorts.”</p>
<p>Looks like a lot of socially (and otherwise) unwashed at Princeton and MIT.</p>
<p>I can’t find any numbers or quotes about Stanford, so I’m thinking all the snobs are hanging out there, lol.</p>
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<p>Surely you jest, bb? For real? That’s a downright certain-fried shame. Where CAN a righteous right thinking maiden hobnob with the hoi polloi without being exposed to such ruffians and scalawags? Before you know it, they’ll let in a Goth or a Vandal or maybe …a Visi-Goth Vandal Ruffian TrailerTrash child of a Ne’er-do-Well. Begorah and B’gosh. The mind boggles.</p>
<p>Pass the popcorn, Youdon’tsay. Anyone want milk duds?</p>
<p>C’mon people, I’m trying to cut back on my CC addiction. But how can I when there are threads like this? Perhaps it should be merged into the metathread and preserved for posterity.</p>
<p>So, if I understand the OP correctly, she wants to send her daughter where the student body will have nothing to do with her because she is not good enough for them?</p>
<p>jcakes–I hate milk duds, hope you brought the snickers bars.<br>
but seriously people, the OP wants her daughter to get an MRS. Mind boggles how the child got into those colleges.<br>
And in answer to curmudgeon, there are lots more sycophants than he thinks/hopes there are out there ;)</p>
<p>Popcorn, milk duds? Heck, open a cold one, it’s happy hour somewhere!</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Ashamed mom of a public school kid. (gasp!)</p>
<p>The original poster is joking, right? She sends her kid to a private high school and wants to make sure Princeton has enough private school types? Hello? What possible relevance is that to obtaining a good education? Go to the school that she thinks (not Mommy and Daddy) will give her the best opportunity to express her talents and develop. Yeesh. </p>
<p>By the way, I went to one of these so-called top 10 schools and was from a poor single mother home - as in losing the house no job for mom no place to live poor.</p>
<p>These schools are generally not easy places for poor people - none of them are. </p>
<p>But it was wonderful motivation. I sure as heck for one minute did not want posters like the original poster to think I was not capable or smart. And moreover, doing it entirely on my own, well, I could look the effete snobby kids in the eye and let them know that mental toughness and discipline was what counts - and not wispy socio-economic perceptions or some private high school credential (although I was sufficiently flexible to learn from some of them - they tended to be really well prepared academically). </p>
<p>And while social situations can be difficult for less well off kids at these top places, I can’t in good mind criticize the school I attended. They took the responsibility of my education seriously, really challenged me without condescension, and looked to me only to put in an honest effort. These schools today - be it Princeton, MIT, Stanford, or Duke or whatever- will still expect the same - honest effort. That should be the focus.</p>
<p>At first I thought this was a joke, but I guess it isn’t.</p>
<p>To the OP-- have you visited all three schools? What does your daughter want??</p>
<p>So which school does have the most snobs? Is the snobbiest? Is Snob U.?</p>
<p>I dont think it is Stanford. I mean it isn’t even an Ivy, it’s very nouveau and it seems to be inhabited by Californians (also nouveau even if they are riche). I am a Californian and we are definitely not snobby. Sometimes we say hi to strangers before ascertaining their connections and lineage.</p>
<p>Princeton sounds snobby. I mean it has PRINCE in the title and there are eating clubs. Apparently you have to join a special club to be able to eat. And it’s an Ivy and in a wealthy town and there is a lot of gray stone buildings which seems quite fancy and snooby. Now clearly Kat’s soon is like some kind of public-school court jester, but if you don’t have someone to look down on, what DO you have?</p>
<p>I don’t even remember the other school??</p>
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If there’s nobody from the wrong side of the tracks, who’d there be to ostracize? I say, let her go. She can wear the hair-net and serve her fellow students in the cafeteria line (as I did for a year ;). Yep. Curmudgeon was “the lunch-lady” and this was no hoity-toity school neither. Nosirree. :eek:. A character building chapter in my life. Edit: I had to work my way up to the line. I started as a dishwasher. I was “motivated” for the “good life” and “upwardly mobile”.).</p>