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>will use this educational experience to go on to impact and change the communities and world around them When I had my alumni interview during the admissions
by ineedasername 5y ago
>will use this educational experience to go on to impact and change the communities and world around them
When I had my alumni interview during the admissions process, it was with a senior partner at a medium-sized law firm. He emphasized that Princeton (at the time) received $200M/year in Alumni donations, and how important it was that students admitted to the school understand that obligation. We didn't talk about making an impact on the world. (Disclaimer: I was rejected.)
- JackFr 5y agoFor what it's worth alumni interviews are mostly meaningless in the applicatiuon process. Theyt exist more as a development tool for keeping alumni engaged. And while one that goes egregiously poorly can hurt your chances, the best alumni interview in the history of college applications won't move the needle.
- ineedasername 5y agoI'll admit that mine probably went poorly. It certainly wasn't bad or uncordial, but as much as I performed well academically I had no strong direction or sense of what I wanted to do in college or afterwards. I was disappointed by not getting accepted, but I was also a little relieved. The pressure of attending was intimidating, and when I met other students and applicants on a visit everyone seemed much more put together than I was. Some of that may have been their outward facing persona but either way I was happy to go to a school where I felt more comfortable needing time to figure things out. Also I wouldn't have tons of debt either. But the interviewer's emphasis on donations has always always stuck with me about Princeton, especially because it was the only school interview where that was very explicitely made an issue.
- rayiner 5y ago> change the communities and world around them … senior partner at a medium-sized law firm. Such an admissions process creates perverse incentives. These students are incentivized to write essays portraying themselves as having struggled to get where they are, and talking how they want to use a Princeton education to “change the world.” In reality, very few are going to go into public service. They are going to go work at investment banks, management consultants, corporate law firms, tech companies, etc. It’s actually scary to think that we are raising a generation of elites that deny that they are elites, and instead are incentivized to see themselves as the underdog, or as agents for social change. Indeed, I get the increasing sense that institutions like Princeton see themselves in those terms, instead of bastions of WASP culture and tradition educating the next generation of bankers, lawyers, and politicians.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago> It’s actually scary to think that we are raising a generation of elites that deny that they are elites We've been there for years. We have people born on third base that think they hit a triple. Billionaires that were born as millionaires and think they worked hard for their money.
- Ekaros 5y agoAlso some how all of this privilege talk forgets the biggest one money and wealth. What ever your gender, race, gender or sexuality is if you are rich enough you are more privileged than those who are from those groups you call privileged...
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- rayiner 5y agoThe purpose of this exercise is ensuring sufficient diversity among the managerial class that’s outsourcing the jobs of working class Americans—white, Black, and Hispanic alike—to China. It’s naked class warfare disguised as social justice.
- qiskit 5y ago> In reality, very few are going to go into public service. People in public service don't change the communities and world around them. Public "servants" are just cogs in the machine. > They are going to go work at investment banks, management consultants, corporate law firms, tech companies, etc. And maybe go on to found Amazon which changed many communities and the world.