<p>I was just looking thru the official Princeton ED and I just completely
lost hope...</p>
<p>I'm an Asian living in US, but w/o green card or citizenship (international student visa) and I have a freaking 3.7-3.8 uw GPA but i think top 10% or 20%. Not going to apply for fiancial aid.</p>
<p>after looking thru the posts, I feel like I won't get in ED even if I have excellent SAT, essay, and revolutionary (from Asian stereotype) ECs....
cuz no one who got accepted are like all valedictorians...</p>
<p>sigh....
my stat in my previous post if you want to take a look, but I'm just sooo scared of applying ED to Pton now...</p>
<p>Good release of Anger.... anxiety.... emotion...
You can plan on more of that for the next 6 months.
Life goes on. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.</p>
<p>honestly, no one except our resident egotist amnesia really "knew" they'd be accepted when they applied, and of those who were accepted, hardly anyone really knows why.</p>
<p>yea, i'm still not really sure why it happened...</p>
<p>and this isn't going to sound helpful wowser, (it's meant to be though), you are not a set of statistics, you are a person. If you act like a statistic, then you will not stand out. </p>
<p>If you let them see your personality I'm almost positive that that means more to them then a few points on your SAT's...Trust me, my stats and EC's weren't all that fabulous (and I had my doubts abt whether I would get in...i still don't believe it), but I think I did a fair job of communicating who I am to them through my essays and other contacts.</p>
<p>my point is that thousands of kids look the same statistically--the whole admissions game is about setting yourself apart.
best of luck.</p>
<p>Wooooo! Non-valedictorians!! I think I ended up fifth in my class ... apparently your school doesn't rank ... but my uw GPA couldn't have been much higher than yours. You can never EVER count on getting into Princeton, but don't panic. Concentrate on writing great essays and really putting time into your favorite ECs. Now relax.</p>
<p>that's about what the admit rate is for every one anyway... and I second what chipndale said. They don't want to fill their classes with SAT scores and class ranks; they want people. The kids whom I often see not getting accepted to these schools are the ones who THINK they were "playing the game" correctly by taking the SATs three times and doing a mission trip to Sri Lanka just to impress admissions committees. The key to a good application is just to be genuine and portray the actual person who you are, and not the person you think they want to see.</p>
<p>The difference between the domestic and the international admit rate is entirely accounted for by the advantages given, respectively, to (1) legacies) and (2) recruited athletes, and (3) URMs.</p>