C’mon. Princeton’s questionable judgment?
Or just a chance to diss another top college?
Both as these colleges accept plenty of questionable cases while rejecting more stable and strong candidates and claim to make deep decisions. Why do you want them to be above review and criticism?
How do you know who’s “stable?” This isn’t like interviewing for the FBI (which also can miss something.)
I don’t want them above review. I do wish more critics dug deeper, rather than accepting their own suspicions (or some journalist’s account,) as enough. The asumptions this is all about NMF, top grades, some committed ECs means one can miss the rest of what they do look at.
I’ve been following this case since it occurred in NYC. My understanding is that the young man began manifesting symptoms of mental illness while in or shortly after graduating from Princeton. Mental illnesses often develop in the late teen and young adult age group as a matter of course, the same way arthritis develops in older people.
Oops, hit post too soon.
I meant to also say that just because one is mentally ill, as this man seems to be, doesn’t mean that they are legally insane for the purposes of avoiding the criminal justice consequences of their actions. The test is whether or not a person recognizes that they are doing wrong.
Here, I think that Tom Gilbert, Jr. did know. The evidence indicated that he did Internet searches on things like forging checks. Most importantly, he sent his mother out of the apartment to buy a snack for him that he knew she didn’t have. This is the thing that convinced me that he was not legally insane. He didn’t want to kill his father in front of his mother or while she was present.
Do I believe that his mental illness played a part? Certainly. However, if defies my belief that this family professed to be unable to get mental health treatment for him. Couldn’t people with their resources pay out of pocket? If I had enough money to just toss $1K a week at my adult son, I would put it towards residential treatment for him.
It’s just sad, all around.
He is 35 now, so they have been trying to get him treatment for 15 years—since age. 20. I interpret that as more about the difficulty involved in forcing an adult to get mental health treatment they either don’t want or don’t believe they need.
What does this have to do with Princeton? The crime occurred when Gilbert was 30. He must’ve been out of Princeton for nearly a decade by then.
Is this your opinion or can you point to a source for this assertion?
How are adcoms supposed to guess what behaviors people will exhibit 8-10 years after they graduate? They aren’t mental health professionals and they don’t pretend to be.
Excuse me, but what, exactly, was the point of this post?
"Excuse me, but what, exactly, was the point of this post? "
hear, hear.
What a ridiculous thread .
The point is to diss on Princeton. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Was there a point you wanted to make? A summary perhaps? No? In that case, I’m channeling my inner Seth & Amy - Really?!?!
I’m not a big fan of posting links without commentary as it is, but even less so when the title has nothing to do with the link. I view it as clickbait and am closing the thread.