Is a 4 percent admission rate to the freshman class really a good thing (On the Campus, May issue)? No, because while the admissions committee has rightly increased diversity, the University’s elite status has to a much greater degree shrunk the percentage of students who can be admitted.
What happens to students who would have been admitted in past years, but now are denied admissions? They go somewhere else. How many future Nobel Prize winners or social activists or future research scientists does Princeton miss out on having in its community?
This problem will continue to grow unless we do something to increase the number of students admitted. A logical solution, one that NYU has embraced, is to have additional campuses. These sites could have other areas of study that are currently not a focus at Princeton, increasing its expertise overall.