<p>Letters</a> to the Editor: Feb. 9, 2009 - The Daily Princetonian</p>
<p>^^ Luckily, I found this when I was deciding between Princeton and other schools. I know many can participate in the socialite scene, but I would not be able to and am happy with my decision to to accept princeton. I think they should let everyone know about this ahead of time or at least change the policy because perhaps if they had, I would have seriously considered attending.</p>
<p>Yet another misdirected youth driven by the sensationalism of media.</p>
<p>why the hell do you care now? its after May 1st, and you’ve already turned Princeton down!
Please don’t respond with an “I want to corrupt other young minds”</p>
<p>I can’t wait to bask in the exclusivity of a sign in club my junior year. <em>sarcasm</em> Please, the assertion that the clubs are exclusive really is absurd.</p>
<p>Susie, did you bother to read the comments on that article? I personally know Shinzaki and he is a freshman who does not frequent the eating clubs. He does NOT know about them. And what does he know about the bicker system? Has he gone through it? No. Will he bicker next year? Probably not.</p>
<p>I also personally know Rafi Klein-Cloud and what he meant was that he could not afford the sophomore spring dues (~$1000) which are not covered by financial aid. Bickering in the fall is a definite possibility for him because financial aid does cover eating club costs for upperclassmen. </p>
<p>“I think they should let everyone know about this ahead of time or at least change the policy”</p>
<p>What do you mean by that? Change what policy? Get rid of financial aid for eating clubs? Or cover the sophomore social fee? And honestly, of all the things the university needs to tell incoming freshmen, the fact that your sophomore social fee isn’t covered by financial aid is prettyyy low on the list.</p>
<p>Ray’s right, Shinzaki clearly has no idea what he’s talking about. Of all the bicker clubs, Cap is really the last club that someone would suggest to have economic elitism tendencies.</p>
<p>The clubs do have the right to reject you but i haven’t found evidence of that happening often if at all. everyone at princeton is nice and open, and unless u have no social skills at all you would have been fine come soph year</p>
<p>fyi that’s a horrible reason to turn down princeton. i mean really with all that princeton could have offered you you turn it down because of eating clubs?!</p>
<p>Yea like this year the bicker clubs collectively took about 435 kids out of 683 bickering (~63.7%) while the Woodrow Wilson school accepted 90 kids out of 160 (~56.3%). Who’s exclusive now?</p>
<p>Susie obviously has no idea what she is yappin about.</p>
<p>The bottom with bicker clubs is that if that club where you hang out most of the time and get along with the membership, you’re in. </p>
<p>For the most part, the rejects are mostly people who bicker <em>X bicker club</em> simply for the sake of bickering. I’ve known of many kids who do Ivy just because its Ivy and quite a few have never set foot inside ivy before. </p>
<p>There are always stories of people who dedicated themselves to a club and didn’t get in and then cried about it- from the outside perspective that could seem elitist, but in reality- there are many reasons why they were hosed. Generally its because they may have some friends in the club, but their actions may have ****ed off other members or they are simply jerks who think the world owe’s them membership.</p>
<p>You’ll understand when you get to campus.</p>