<p>“Looshin”</p>
<p>I’m not trying to bash you as an applicant in any way, either. It’s unfortunate that you were rejected, but given that you also applied to Oxbridge, I’m assuming you noted the competition at interview, and how almost everyone would have had similar AS-level grades / A2 predictions (although your GCSEs and TSA are very strong, I must say!)</p>
<p>… Well, I really love Princeton’s location.</p>
<p>“TSRPolymath, I hope you are a ■■■■■. Being predicted 5 A*s is almost statistically impossible. 99% of students in the country do not have the resources provided to them to achieve such grades.”</p>
<p>Being predicted 5 A*s is no biggie - about twenty at my current school.</p>
<p>TSRPolymath, I think you should know me as Caecilius ;)</p>
<p>But yeah, MeisHM, Oxbridge admissions is deffo not as simple as you seem to think it is.
For the record, I think it’s not really that unusual that I should be rejected. I’m planning to re-apply next year to Oriel if I don’t get HYP.</p>
<p>As for my current school - I have major beef with the way they run things, so I’m not too keen on praising them, aha.</p>
<p>It’s like that cosy college town feel but you’re never too far away from New York City!</p>
<p>Looshin, I was comparing your performance with the average national performance. I know people who have been accepted to Oxbridge with three A-grades (no A*s).</p>
<p>As I previously stated, your school is probably one of the best in the country. Last year, my school had only 20/1400 people with A Levels higher than AAA.</p>
<p>I never implied that getting into Oxbridge was easy. I was actually saying how difficult for most applicants to get those grades.</p>
<p>“TSRPolymath, I think you should know me as Caecilius”</p>
<p>Ah yes, well I trust you weren’t offended by anything I said then, it’s all pretty common knowledge in the Other Forum ;)</p>
<p>There was someone just below you on the stalker page who also had 10 A<em>s at GCSE, straight As at AS and straight A</em> A-level predictions who was rejected for the same course at the same college 
Weird stuff.</p>
<p>I remember being somewhat intimidated by your academic profile as an ESPS applicant ;)</p>
<p>I’m wondering if I saw you on the TSA day… there was someone going for Economics and German, who seemed to be Chinese, who was sitting behind me (ish) during the TSA. When a girl asked whether she needed HL French for a French specialism, you/this person said “awkwaaaaard” to me :p</p>
<p>“I know people who have been accepted to Oxbridge with three A-grades (no A<em>s).”
Half of Oxford’s entrance requirements are three A-grades. The number of people admitted who were *predicted</em> AAA will be exceptionally low though, as predicted grades are taken with buckets of salt by universities.</p>
<p>Did you apply to the UK/are you from the UK? What are you applying for and where, if you don’t mind me asking? :)</p>
<p>Lmao, ngl, I’m proud that I can be a source of academic intimidation. And yeahyeah, no offence taken, dw.</p>
<p>lmao, ngl, dw <- spoken like a true PPE-ist :)</p>
<p>And isn’t the architecture just stunning?</p>
<p>Yeah, P does seem like the nicest campus. People complain of its insularity, though.</p>
<p>Anyone heard of British applicants getting LL’s this cycle? I know there’s the one Harvard guy out there.</p>
<p>“And isn’t the architecture just stunning?”</p>
<p>It is lovely, I must say. Reminds me of Cambridge - just looked it up and apparently Princeton was designed with the Oxbridge style heavily in mind.</p>
<p>Hey! Applied to Princeton RD this year. I’m an UK applicant too 
Other schools I applied to are: CalTech (EA, admitted), Trinity,Cambridge (Maths Tripos, admitted) and RD: Harvard, Stanford and MIT. :)</p>
<p>Nervous about results :(</p>
<p>Yaya… more UK students
Congratulations on Cambridge, if this American dream fails for us both I’ll see you there!!!</p>
<p>@blackpaperbirds are you not going to pick Cambridge Maths?? From what I’ve been told, it stands out as being the most rigorous maths program, along with the Part III directly after it.</p>
<p>@ TSRPolymath
yeah… I don’t know. 
I mean technically if I wanted to just focus on maths then yes, but at the moment I want the option of being able to do Visual Arts seriously at university… And there are so many talented kids in the world I don’t even know if I can become a research mathematician :/</p>
<p>From your username I assume you’re on TSR? Didn’t make an account there because I thought I would waste so much time… but ended up from making an account on cc :P</p>
<p>@blackpaperbirds, yes I am on that forum and it does tend to waste a lot of your time! :)</p>
<p>What is an RD application?</p>
<p>Also, the fact that you’ve been admitted to the Cambridge Maths tripos is (I’m guessing) going to be conditional on you achieving 1,1 in STEP, am I right?</p>
<p>If you can get those marks in the STEP exams, i.e. if you are full admitted to the course, then you are certainly good enough to get a 2.1 at the least.</p>
<p>Yes, you are likely to find some <em>seriously</em> good people, especially as Trinity tends to be where the IMO/BMO candidates apply to, and it’s something I need to get over as well - however good you may be within your own school, there are going to be several geniuses at Cambridge who will destroy you in your subject.</p>
<p>That said, it’s not going to be hard for you to go into research - ‘research’ doesn’t mean you have to be the top mathematician in the world - you’re at the very top of the pile in terms of what universities would want to admit onto their postgraduate programmes, and if you can succeed in getting onto the PIII programme then you will be SET for anything else.</p>
<p>@TSRPolymath RD is short for Regular Decision for US schools…</p>
<p>Yeah I have A*AA + 11 in STEP. Lol I know Trinity is gonna be full of geniuses and I’m going to be wondering how I got in. STEP should be fine though. I used to think it was scary but if you practice then you get better at it (obviously). Did you apply for Maths too? Also I’m sure you’ve posted this somewhere but where in the US are you applying? :)</p>
<p>To be perfectly honest I applied for maths because I enjoy it but I do have other interests and I don’t particularly want to become someone who ONLY does maths. Harvard/Princeton’s maths dept is also amazing and it would be great if I could go there so I can pursue other interests too.</p>
<p>@blackpaperbirds
I’m not applying to the US, just floating around to get an idea of how the US system works as I was interested.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply for maths, no - I went for languages, but I’m considering a switch to economics/maths (I’m taking STEP).</p>
<p>You should definitely be fine - I know three or four people going to do maths at Cam next year and I don’t think they’re particularly confident about getting a 1,1. Well, they might be confident, but they’re certainly admitting that they could end up missing it.</p>
<p>If you’re worried about not being good at maths compared to others, then you’ll find that at Harvard/Princeton whilst you’re taking other classes, the real maths keenos will be focusing on maths as much as they can, and will overtake. At Cambridge it is possible to switch course each year, so you could theoretically switch into Part II Economics or something after 1-2 years if you wanted to mix things up.</p>