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Freshman seminar placement determined by algorithm
Published: Friday, November 20th, 2009
More than 1,200 total applications were received for the 75 freshman seminars offered this year, after freshmen submitted applications for the spring seminars last week.
Over the summer, incoming freshmen received booklets about the freshman seminars by mail. The ...
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Freshmen seminars are not new. And what does the title have to do with the article? Freshmen should not write for the Prince.
I nearly choked on my coffee when I read the quote from Feiveson. I had him for the same seminar (albeit with a slightly tweaked name) 5 years ago and it was atrocious. He didn't really learn our names until halfway through the semester and played major favorites with the varsity athletes in the seminar. Oh, and everyone got the same final grade despite the fact that people obviously put in varied amounts and quality of work. Wasn't quite what I envisioned when I signed up.
So for '14ers who want in to a popular FRS -- select equally or more popular seminars as your 2d and 3d choice. Because those seminars, being popular and small, will be filled with people who had ranked them #1, you will be bumped and therefore rewarded by having your essay read by what is really your #1 choice. Just write a better than average essay. For the university, though, this means less popular seminars will go unfilled and also means that teachers of popular seminars will be more and more inundated with essays.
It's not news, it's the Prince.
Professor Snyder's seminar embodies Princeton's academics at their best. Loved the class, loved the teacher! Classes like FRS169 are the reason why I came to this school.
“I would take five freshman seminars if I could"
UM no. How about you wait until you finish your first semester and take some real classes before passing judgment? I hate it when freshmen act like they've been at this school for years and like they know what they're doing with their lives. Please, spare us.
Also, this article sucks. I really fail to see how this is news. Almost all of it, minus the interviews, seems almost verbatim from that pamphlet we got freshman year.
I would take five freshman seminars if I could.
- an '09 alum