High school seniors: If you don’t get the thick envelope, don’t feel too bad. Princeton is a trade school. …There is only Yale? Take it from Season 2 of Gossip Girl.

Fun fact: The teacher out to ruin Blair’s Yale dreams? That’d be senior Laura Breckenridge ‘10. Oh, Princetonians! Always trying to deflate everyone else’s grades, too!

From the video:

“Maybe in time, I’ll get in trouble for not inflating grades like everyone else, Ms. Waldorf, but until then, I’ll give them based on merit.”

Sound familiar? But here’s the thing. At Princeton, grade deflation won’t stop you from getting into Yale — at least according to Yale Law School dean of admissions Rangappa ‘96.