<p>Please chance me for Pton, I'd give my liver to go there</p>
<p>Private high school in Baltimore (pretty good reputation)
Black male, one of 5 in a grade of 100, highest grade
School has grade deflation policy
School offers no AP courses, but all courses are AP-level
$500,000 income/year</p>
<p>SAT: 2010
SAT II: Biology: 530 (not listing), US History: 710, Chem: 660, Math I: 600
AP(no classes offered at my school): US History: 4, English: 3</p>
<p>Established week-long program for new Middle School students before year starts
Established mentoring program for black students
JHU Center for Talented Youth: 2004-2007
Harvard SSP: 2008
Volunteered 100+ hours at local underprivileged Charter School
Volunteered 50+ hours at public library
Service trip to Argentina
JV Tennis
JV Squash</p>
<p>Two of fathers bosses went to Princeton, and both are rather prominent, and really want to write letters of recommendation for me</p>
<p>Good Luck. You're gonna need it.<br>
AA: Check
URM: Check
Income Bracket: Cancels out any URM advantage imo.
School Courses are not AP but AP level: Dude, that's your opinion, how does Princeton know that?
SAT: Low for Princeton
SAT 2s: Still pretty low.
AP Tests: 3,4 is stretching it.
EC: Volunteer hours are ok. JV Sports don't count that much I don't think. Establishing mentoring program, I guess.</p>
<p>Advice: Grade deflation => Relatively low GPA right?
Than you need your test scores to show that you can compete with the Best of them. imo, those test scores don't show that. </p>
<p>Hope: Get those two bosses recs in? Emphasize mentoring? Score some more points on tests?</p>
<p>Realistic: Maybe you need to consider some other schools.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is overly harsh, but if you look at the other Princeton Applicants here, I think you'll agree with me that you are not quite as competitive a candidate as most of them.</p>
<p>The only other thing I see from your POV that you have going for you is your URM, but your Socialeconomic bracket WILL (again imo) cancel that out. If you're family makes half a mill a year and you have an Asian family like mine that makes a fifth of that, I don't think that being Black will give you a significant advantage over me in that respect.</p>
<p>Again, just my respective opinion. Feel free to apply to Princeton.</p>
<p>Yea, I entirely agree about that. I really shouldn't have that much of an advantage over someone not an URM. It sounds arrogant, but I've had it better than most people, black or white.</p>
<p>I just went to bed, and remembered I left out some other stuff lol</p>
<p>GPA: 3.3 (school average is 2.0), my school isn't bad, but a C is actually the average grade
Newspaper- (Editor in Chief)
Mock Trial (Co-head)
Debate Club
Model UN (Co-head)
Political Forum (founder)- biweekly discussions on politics, current events, international affairs</p>
<p>I have a photography website that nets 150,000 views/year</p>
<p>I think you'd need at least 2200 SAT's to be a good shot for princeton with your father's bosses letters of rec + URM status. still, nothing's a guarantee for princeton.</p>
<p>I have to disagree with some peoples' comments here.</p>
<p>Your economic status will not really effect your status as a URM. Most of the black students at Ivy League colleges are foreigners, usually rich ones. Plain and simple: They want black kids and they dont really care where they come from. And your SAT scores really aren't bad, especially for a black male. According to a Princeton study, you should add about 200 points to your cummulative Reading and Math score to obtain your "white" SAT score.</p>
<p>That puts you at about a 1550 if you were a white applicant. </p>
<p>BUT, your GPA is incredibly low, even with the rampant grade deflation at your school. It's very important that your class rank is really high or your GPA will nullify any chance you have at being accepted.</p>
<p>Socioeconomic status has almost nothing to do with admission chances, unless the school is not need-blind. The only way that would have any effect is indirectly through other materials.. Affirmative action applies to all URMs not poor URMs, or middle class URMs. </p>
<p>Prep school students have the highest acceptance rates to top colleges and most people who can afford to send their children to prep schools are fairly well off.</p>
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Lol "you should add about 200 points...to obtain your 'white' score." I just don't see how being URM makes you that terrible at the SAT's.
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<p>Not sure if you're disagreeing with me or not. But what I said is true. A black student iwth a 1300 is just as likely to be accepted as a white student with a 1500.</p>
<p>And it's known that URM's score significantly worse than whites/Asians at every economic level. If this "URM handicapping" wasn't practiced by colleges, the amount of URM at elite colleges would be almost nonexistent. Look at UCLA and Berkeley after those laws passed a few years ago.</p>