I was linking through the internet and found a video of Steve Carell giving a commencement address at Princeton. 25 seconds into the video the student introducing Steve Carell makes reference to the 40 Year Old Virgin and the nerdiness of Princeton students. Right at that moment the camera cuts to an unamused Donn Cabral in the crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOVVYkeTJKo&feature=player_embedded#
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he's so blue collar he doesn't even need the hood on his poncho
he looks somewhat amused
Yeah, he looks reasonably amused.
dood2899 wrote:
he's so blue collar he doesn't even need the hood on his poncho
Nobody who goes to Princeton is Blue Collar
Scholarships bro.
Lonnie?!?!
Ivy League schools don't give out scholarships... for anything...
except for being poor.
false.
Is that speaker a Princeton grad? He is terrible. Memorize your speech, man, and deliver it with some style. It's like he's talking about how Davy Crocket is his hero in kindergarten. As to Cabral, possibly the most ironic one to flash to when talking about spending more time in the classroom than bedroom.
Seymour G. wrote:
I was linking through the internet and found a video of Steve Carell giving a commencement address at Princeton. 25 seconds into the video the student introducing Steve Carell makes reference to the 40 Year Old Virgin and the nerdiness of Princeton students. Right at that moment the camera cuts to an unamused Donn Cabral in the crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOVVYkeTJKo&feature=player_embedded#!
Why, does Cabral get it in a lot? I need to know this.
It is not a scholarship. It is a need-based-grant system that is Ivy-wide based on multiple factors, ranging from what your parents make to the value of their house to anything your family may have saved up for your tuition. If you do get a scholarship, say from a competition you won or an essay you wrote, the Ivy college will count that AGAINST your aid package in a negative way and give you less money, so the only time scholarships help at an Ivy League, is when your parents make so much money, you don't get any aid package. That, or just for the prestige.
Are most kids who go to Princeton from rich families? Absolutely.
Are all of them? No.
Is Cabral? No idea, don't know him. All my knowledge of him are anecdotal and second or third party. Although, all of them agree, he is an elitist conceited ass, so my money is on rich kid.....
I almost don't know where to start with the flaws in this post. For all but the super rich, Princeton's aid package is phenomenal and if you come from a middle class home you will pay in tuition less than you would at your state university in most states. You act like kids win fifty thousand dollar essay contests, they don't. The 500 bucks they win for their essay still leaves thousands in aid available to them.As to your "second and third hand stories," try ninth or tenth hand. Cabral is one of the most respected runners amongst his competitors and even other coaches. I have rarely heard opposing coaches, ones that lost him in the recruiting process and could be bitter, speak so highly of a rival athlete. That being said, funny video! Nice sleeve on New Jersey's finest.
uuuupo wrote:
It is not a scholarship. It is a need-based-grant system that is Ivy-wide based on multiple factors, ranging from what your parents make to the value of their house to anything your family may have saved up for your tuition. If you do get a scholarship, say from a competition you won or an essay you wrote, the Ivy college will count that AGAINST your aid package in a negative way and give you less money, so the only time scholarships help at an Ivy League, is when your parents make so much money, you don't get any aid package. That, or just for the prestige.
Are most kids who go to Princeton from rich families? Absolutely.
Are all of them? No.
Is Cabral? No idea, don't know him. All my knowledge of him are anecdotal and second or third party. Although, all of them agree, he is an elitist conceited ass, so my money is on rich kid.....
I can't speak for Cabral in any respect, but I can say that you're right about Princeton. All the Ivy League schools have such enormous endowments that they're able to give extremely generous scholarships to many students. The only real way being rich helps you get in is the access to education you had before college, or (not very commonly) your parents donating something if you're exorbitantly rich.
DC current wrote:
You tell me:
http://hepstrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/final-2012-heps-ncaa-4.pdf
Does anyone else just want to punch that Alexi Pappas girl...she just has that look that makes me hate her.
Alexi Pappas is one of the sweetest, kindest, most intelligent and funny girls I've ever met. Don't go saying bad stuff about her on the internet. She's worked her butt off to get to the level she's at now - in running and in school.
Pappas is gorgeous! google image her, she's got that artsy vibe goin on.
The Ivies do indeed waive tuition for quite a few kids. Essentially, the schools depend on massive contributions from alumni who donate in hopes that their own next generation of kids will also get in. It used to be pretty automatic that they did get in, but not quite so much so anymore