Your School Is Extremely Elitest/Stuck-Up

GR_Elton
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:54:06 +0000

Why, AFalcon10, must you insist on ascribing haughty motives to what is at best a prosaic policy choice? All students have the opportunity to apply to Princeton out of high school. Those who are accepted and choose to come comprise the core of the university. Those are the students it wants to teach. Nassau Hall offers neither transfers nor an extension program because those would take away from its focus on a cohesive undergraduate body uniform in appreciation of the college experience. It is not elitism–the view that students at other universities are in any way ‘inferior’–but rather the desire to offer an undergraduate education only to those without prior college experience.

Your imputations of malice, I suspect, are more a reflection of your own insecurity than a reasonable complaint against Princeton.