<p>I'm hearing the same thing about princeton. Kids of the famous, rich, powerful, and alumni who give good contributions get 40% of the seats reserved for them? What kind of ****ing crap is this</p>
<p>OK, look at that thread, which is an unverified personal anecdote about a Yale guy who is purporting to know exact figures from other competing schools. Sounds like the truth...not. Now look at the official acceptance threads on this site (using the search tool) and see the truth.</p>
<p>Well, 55% are on financial aid. That leaves, say, 5% who are neither.</p>
<p>MallomarCookie, thats the whole freaking point. Their admission statistics are false, when they claim 10% of applicants get in.</p>
<p>Predator, calm down. That's not the point. The point is, they do admit 9-12% of applicants. However, 40% of the accepted applicants are not special-cases. You are basing that assumption on some very spurious claims.</p>
<p>As long as these kids are qualified academically there is nothing wrong with this policy.
A private institution can if it chooses to reward wealthy donors.
I would agree that if any of these kids are not exceptional students who can add to quality of the class then perhaps admissions should look elsewhere.
Having said that there might be a few cases where some have slipped through.</p>