<p>does princeton have any sort of "early notification" program for exceptional students?</p>
<p>There's likely letter, but they're rare and only for athletes and URMs. </p>
<p>Someone on this board claimed to have gotten a phone call to their schol from Princeton....I didn't wholly believe it but I guess it's possible.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn't know that's why they asked for the parent's info part.</p>
<p>that's completely true i do not lie! plus i thought it was kinda wierd, but i talked to another athlete who got a likely letter for tennis and he said it was the same for him.</p>
<p>Niiice.</p>
<p>Well that just seems so odd, why waste the paper on the likely then? </p>
<p>heh, sorry...I'm a treehugger</p>
<p>i guess to make it super official? well i think they had to call me too, b/c i was getting the likely so i would pass up on athletic scholarsips at other schools. but you must sign to a school within a certain period. and the early signing period was ending the next day, so maybe they called cause the letter would get there too late?</p>
<p>that could explain it.</p>
<p>and if it makes u feel any better, it was only a sheet, no crazy paper wasted.</p>
<p>Getting</a> In: Inside the College Admissions Process by Bill Paul, a Princeton alumnus, gives quite a bit of information about the Princeton admissions process. It's written as a narrative, following five students through the application process, with in-depth interviews with Hargadon in between. It gave me somewhat of a reality check.</p>
<p>"The worth of this book lies in its accurate reflection of reality; it suggests that admission to one of the most selective (1 of every 11 applicants) schools is determined not only by academic excellence and extracurricular entrepreneurialism, but by the luck of the draw as well. Indeed, at one point in the book, Hargadon admits-- as I've heard him do on other occasions-- that if the admitted Princeton freshman class were somehow eliminated, he could fashion a statistically identical class from the rejected applicants."</p>
<p>wow....</p>
<p>janerdoo - ther eare no RD likely letters/early notifications, only for ED candidates, or so i hear =P</p>
<p>from?</p>
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<p>hey all..</p>
<p>first of all, what are URMs?</p>
<p>secondly, i've received letters from most of my schools that they need additional financial information (apparently, i made an error in my CSS profile). however, i have not received contact from princeton about updating my finaid info.
Does this mean i'm completely out of the game? And with the other colleges, does it mean that i'm being considered as a desirable candidate?</p>
<p>probably not, because princeton uses its own financial aid form and fafsa, i don't think they use css. i never even filled one out</p>
<p>URM - under-represented minority</p>
<p>pton does not use CSS they have their own financial aid form that u will hear back from when u get ur acceptance. you have to verify all the information through FAFSA. no u are in the game still =P</p>
<p>i got my financial aid form today, could this mean anything?</p>
<p>I like Hobbes' method, lol. :)</p>
<p>what financial aid form, mz?</p>
<p>Janerdoo implied he/she is expecting a financial aid form, which I received today along with a letter claiming I had requested it when I never did such a thing (unless checking the "yes" financial aid box on the application counts as a request.)</p>
<p>It's a four sided worksheet printed on thick, pale "Princeton" paper entitled "Financial Aid Application for the Class of 2009." My letter is personally signed in blue ink (I can tell because it's smeared) by Emily Valentino, Undergraduate Financial Aid Assistant. </p>
<p>I don't want to jump to any conclusions because I'm sure everyone got one. Riiiiight?</p>
<p>No idea what you're talking about actually. If that's the finaid application, shouldn't that have been due a long time ago?</p>
<p>I thought it was due in April...</p>
<p>If it was due a long time ago, I can't figure out why they would send it to me now. Under that scenario, I'd figure they'd just assume I don't need any aid. (which I do.)</p>
<p>Very confusing...</p>
<p>Comeon, there must be SOMEBODY who got this on CC....</p>
<p>tha finaid app was due a long time ago
its called the pff, and its available on the website</p>