Reluctant LAC Admissions Counselor?

[cobrat]

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That would be an incorrect presumption. We had athletes, too. Some very good ones (who became Rhodes Scholars). They didn’t get in. To be honest (and mind you, this is a long time ago), the assumption was that we shouldn’t bother to apply. That was true at my alma mater as well (I was the first who came in a long while), and it changed (slowly), among other reasons, because a math professor - an alum of my high school - had became dean of the college, and he shared our common “persuasion”.</p>

<p>Cobrat, you were probably about 3-4 years later than me.

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<p>I take it you graduated sometime in the late '80s or on the cusp of the '90s. I graduated sometime in the mid’90s. </p>

<p>Incidentally…regarding P…several older high school classmates who were students there recounted the high levels of snobbery based on one’s socio-economic status, public/private school, geographic region, and whether they were urban/rural or preferably…suburban from an upper/upper-middle class suburb. One older post-college friend who was a P grad had such bad reactions to the above that he ended up being totally 200% gung-ho about MIT…his grad school. The way he acted, everyone thought he was dyed in the wool MIT from college through grad school until his sister slipped up and revealed his P past. </p>

<p>Granted, Princeton has undergone great changes in the last 2+ decades so today’s P is far more open-minded and down-to-earth. </p>

<p>However, it seems our HS still has plenty of jokes about P having to hold its nose in utter revulsion each spring when it finds it failed again to hold back the tide of grubby riffraffs from our school.</p>