<p>Saw this in Time magazine other day, thought it was beneficial :) It basically talked about how a lot of kids nowadays are choosing smaller, lesser known schools than Harvard or the big "ivy league" name brands and are opting for a more "personalized" education at small LACs or whatnot...</p>
<p>*"You're a parent watching your child, so proud, and so worried. Your neighbors' son was a nationally ranked swimmer, straight As, great boards, nice kid. Got rejected at his top three choices, wait-listed at two more. Who gets into Yale these days anyway? Maybe they should have sent him to Mali for the summer to dig wells, fight malaria, give him something to write about in his essay.</p>
<p>You're the college counselor at a public school in a hothouse ZIP code, and you wish you could grab the students, grab the parents by the shoulders and shake them. Twenty thousand dollars for a college consultant? They're paying for help getting into a school where the kid probably doesn't belong..."*</p>
<p>Full</a> Article!</p>
<p>I love this article. it's so much better than the one in Newsweek from the same week. I commend those students who against the norm, turn down HYPSM and go to a small college who gives them money.</p>
<p>turn down MIT for Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering!</p>
<p>waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute. i already know this article is complete ********.</p>
<p>"he first time I asked myself that question was in the fall of 1980, a month or so after arriving on a campus that struck me as a version of heaven on earth. The buildings cast elaborate, Gothic shadows that I had never seen in the Midwest, where I had attended public high school and dreamed of someday going east to glory. My fellow classmates wore natty outfits that put my dull provincial threads to shame. They also spoke more impressively than I did, dropping the names of ancient Greek philosophers and contemporary French deconstructionists. What was a deconstructionist, exactly? I wasn't sure. But I was dying to learn.</p>
<p>I learned instead--and in only a few weeks--that Princeton wasn't heavenly at all but a flawed, all-too-human institution whose reputation seemed exaggerated compared with the quality of the education it offered. Because I had transferred there from a smaller school--Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.--I had a basis for comparison. Although Princeton had far more money and mystique, its reading lists were composed of the same books, and its students were filled with the same questions. But the students carried those books with more aplomb, and they asked their questions with more confidence. "</p>
<p>this is crap. complete crap. princeton doesnt ACCEPT transfers, and it never has. why the hell is he saying he came from macalester? this article is a complete sham. i am embarassed to say this comes from time.</p>
<p>Remember that the person is talking about 1980...Princeton probably accepted transfers back then. Check before judging, zemook.</p>
<p>Thanks. Great article.</p>
<p>hey hey my sexy picture is in that article...mostafa ibrahim. the guy who turned down yale and columbia for university of cincinnati! i'm famous lol</p>
<p>It wasn't until the late '80's that Princeton didn't accept transfers. My dad worked with a guy who transferred from JHU to Princeton.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/02/015.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/02/015.htm</a></p>