<p>Great comment about the LaCoste shirts - (my D loves them, btw) and the preppie stereotype, which I assume from the tone of the article is not the case. </p>
<p>For me, the hallmark of a great school atmosphere for my S or D, and not limited to Princeton of course, is more or less summed up by the remark the student made that she "realized before coming that I wasn't going to get the same grades as I did in high school," she said. "But, with that, I knew that for the first time I was going to feel OK with expressing my intelligence. Here, everyone is smart and it's OK to show it, and we all understand each other because of it. Before, in high school, it was almost embarrassing to show it." Also, it is good to know that not everyone attending are super nerds or "A" student types.</p>