Fulfilling our admissions promise
Princeton does a pretty good job extending financial aid to students. It also has a fairly strong record of nominal diversity —racial, ethnic and economic —in recent history. Several of its institutions, from the admission department to eating clubs, have been shamefully late in treating humans equally, but all are presently up to speed, at least nominally. How these groups are treated once on campus could fill several books or theses, but let’s focus on academic preparedness. Having taken its place at the table of modern enlightenment, our institution suffers a common problem —in extending an offer of admission to all comers, there are practical differences in admitted students’ preparation that persist through all four years of study.