<p>Does anyone know if the kids of Princeton employees have any advantage in admission compared to others? Or does it only help if one of your parents is, say, a professor, rather than some other sort of staff?</p>
<p>yeh they do get an advantage, and they dont fall under the legacy category either.</p>
<p>how much of an advantage, exactly?</p>
<p>a huge advantage, i would imagine. more so than legacy.</p>
<p>hmm....so it doesn't matter WHAT job they have? as long as P'ton is the employer? </p>
<p>what if your parent is the garbageman or the cafetaria lady? would that help significantly?</p>
<p>lmao well I'm sure Princeton doesn't have their own personal garbageman.</p>
<p>But then again you never know...</p>
<p>so for the cafeteria mom scenario, would it help much in admission to P'ton?</p>
<p>Are you kidding me?</p>
<p>I believe 70% of intelligence is genetic, with conditioning accounting for the remainder. If your mom is a cafeteria women, then chances are you wont be brilliant. But hey, exceptions occur, and nothing against the cafeteria women...I think they're some of the nicest people I've ever met.</p>
<p>It's not a particularly strong advantage. The real advantage comes into play on tuition, but you've got to get in first.</p>
<p>If your parent was the cafeteria lady or the garbageman and you were even halfway plausible as a candidate, that would be more of an asset than being a faculty brat, because that sort of story would fulfill the wildest "social justice" fantasies of the current administration.</p>
<p>lol heh. wat if ur mom is the cafetaria lady and ur dad is the garbageman?</p>
<p>haha what kind of sick princeton spawn would you be....
you'd probably end up as the hunchbacked caretaker who lives in the shack in the backyard with his 8 cats.</p>
<p>Hahahahaha :D</p>
<p>There is a difference between intelligence and education level. People aren't generally cafeteria workers because they are too dumb to get a job in an office somewhere, they are cafeteria workers because they didn't go to college and possibly dropped out of high school as well, or because they're immigrants with limited English.
While socioeconomic realities suggest that it will be far rarer for the child of a garbagaeman and cafeteria worker to get the kind of education he needs to bring out whatever intelligence he does possess, there is no genetic barrier to achievement. One can be extremely bright and extremely poor and uneducataed. Conversely, someone can be of average or even slightly below average intelligence and wind up in a respectable white collar poisition based largely on family background.</p>
<p>lol, anyone wanna answer my question now?</p>