Princeton is Ivy League, isn't it? That pretty much guarantees some level of academic elitism.
As it happens, one of the Professors (as in, highest-ranked positions, not all of our teachers are called professors here) at the USyd School of Physics is on the selection committee for Princeton, as I recall. His name is Joss Bland-Hawthorn, and he's an expert in galactic dynamics and dark matter research but his big thing at the moment is a field called astrophotonics, which is the use of photonics techniques to generate low-volume high-efficiency optical filters for radio telescopes and so on, because astronomy these days is not diffraction limited by the size of the dish, but people keep paying millions and millions of dollars to build huge telescopes for marginal gain. He thinks the only way to better astronomy data is with the filtering processes.
One of the other professors told me he's the most sought-after instrumental astronomer in the world.
EDIT: Chaos, that was fucking awesome. I never even thought it could be a April1 joke.
