April Hosting has always been one of my favorite rituals at Princeton. Hordes of eager, dewy-eyed pre-frosh swarm our campus to test-drive it - and us - and determine whether this is where they want to spend their next four ...(back to the article)
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Why you gotta hate on Babylon 5? That show was SO ACE.
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I do increasingly feel that I don't "trust" the admissions process under Rappelye to bring in students I want to be on campus with in more settings than precept and study groups. Under Hargadon, I felt a bit more secure in that. I wonder if there's anything more than intuition there?
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I dont think these comments fully grasp the spirit of the article. Lighten up.
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The problem here is generational: Since previous students didn't receive this gospel from Mr. Kandel, some sub-prime pre-frosh were not sufficiently frightened away. And guess what... they're now students and they're now the people that Kandel wants to be the final barrier to admission. But if Kandel is right, then they will make crappy decisions about who to frighten away.
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Good idea, except, that you can't actually identify the terrible ones. Because somebody you might not like might actually be great to someone else, or at least be an amazing physics/math/whatever superstar.
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