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Record applicant numbers for Class of 2013 fall short of peers
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Correction appended
The University received a record 21,886 applications for the Class of 2013, representing a 2 percent increase from last year, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview last week. The rise in applicants to Princeton ...
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Rapelye said she didn't know why our apps growth is down compared to other Ivies?
Perhaps word is getting out that grade deflation puts students at an unnecessary disadvantage in the very competitive environments for jobs, law/medical/grad school and all the rest.
Fire Malkiel. Only choice--her actions have not been followed by other universities, and her sick "experiment" on the Princeton student body has caused enough damage.
This is ridiculous on the part of the administration. It's CLEARLY the grade deflation policy. They need to admit that the plan has FAILED, to the detriment of both current and future generations of students, as well as to the university itself. someone needs to be held accountable.
The 4 best friends of my son who are attending Caltech, Harvard, Yale and Boston University did not apply to Princeton. They all mentioned about Princeton's grade deflation.
Grade deflation + bad PR on financial aid = Safety schools get more applicants than we do
The Dean posited a theory about a "plateau" in high school graduates. That frustrates me for two reasons. One, it's the Dean's job to the know the size of the graduating class from high school, and how it is trending (and will trend). These are merely publicly available statistics. If she does not definitively know, she should. It's part of her job. Two, the theory is clearly wrong if more people are applying to other schools, and not PU.
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Maybe she just gave an off the cuff comment.
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We've worked so hard under the new administration to eliminate any real or perceived differences between PU and our "sister institutions". As a result, despite our feverish devotion to the standard of diversity, we've come close to destroying our institutional diversity. As one of several small examples, the University is almost always now referred to as "a large research institution" with a liberal arts feel. The same agenda the President has pushed since she was installed. The shame is that whether or not the focus has shifted from teaching undergraduates (which can be said about no other "sister institution") it creates that perception. Normalizing us with dozens of other schools in almost every single way. Well, except grade deflation.
Grade deflation doesn't hurt the chances of Princeton graduates trying to find jobs or get into grad school. It only hurts people's poor little feelings when they don't get an A- for B work. Man up.
If we knew Princeton's grade deflation, PU would not be our choice.
What a crybaby.
deflation- pointless. 4 year colleges- pointless. war on fun- pointless. Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the world, the most dedicated teaching staff, the best financial aid, and one of the most fun atmospheres of any of its peers. Why not let the school rest on that instead of one hairbrained scheme after another?
If it was a "plateau," every school's application rates would be down -- false. In fact, more high school students are applying to college now than in the past decade.
The real reason for the drop? Grade deflation. I've told several of my high school friends not to apply because of it, and others have researched it and decided by themselves to apply elsewhere. It's a bad policy -- one that hurts current students and scares away potential applicants. Honestly, it wouldn't kill Princeton to admit it made a mistake on this one.