<p>I guess this is mostly directed towards the EDers... or Class of 2009, feel free to chip in if you have any stories to share :)</p>
<p>I was pretty bored, so I decided, hey, I'll just check out the ED results from last year's applicants. Let me say that it was hands-down the most depressing thread I have ever read. No, really... I'm in shock. The quality of the deferred applicants was outstanding... needless to say, the admitted applicants were mind-blowing. Previously, I had given myself a 2% shot at Pton... now I'm down to about .000002%. :p
I even had a moment where I seriously considered applying ED to Cornell.</p>
<p><em>wanders over to the Cornell forum</em>
<em>slaps herself and comes back to Princeton forum</em></p>
<p>Does anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p><em>crickets</em></p>
<p>lol, ok, it's probably just me, but then again, I don't have the insane awards that everyone else seems to have... just a couple of dinky science olympiad awards and a whole bunch of sports stuff (which doesn't even matter because, by a cruel twist of fate, I am not good enough to be recruited.)</p>
<p>So anyway, what is everyone's second choice school? You know, just in case...</p>
<p>Mine, quite obviously, is Cornell. :) (or maybe Swarthmore, I still have to visit)</p>
<p>My second choice: Cornell/Tufts... can't decide.</p>
<p>by the way, I feel exactly the same, it's by no mens 'just you'. It would be bad if we didn't feel a little intimidated, because it helps keep us in tune with reality, so that in the event that we get deferred or rejected, it won't be as much of a slap in the face.</p>
Absolutely... second choice is Yale, because I'm one of those many people like Phil who were in love forever with Yale until discovering fairly recently how awesome Princeton is. Of course, that's a long shot, too, along with Stanford. Second choice where I have a shot? Caltech.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way, my science olympiad awards are dinkier than yours, Koala!</p>
<p>from a pton ED admit: I was intimidated too! Honestly, I thought there was no way in hell I was getting in, especially when I started seeing who got deferred on this board (I'm in CA, so a bunch of people knew before me). But all you can really do is put everything into your app (I spend weeks on mine......lol.......I think I proofread the thing like, 25 times), and hope for the best. And if you don't get in to Pton early, start working on Cornell (or Yale)! My bf was deferred/rejected from pton, but cornell was his 2nd choice and now he thinks it was the better one for him anyway and is going there, so everything will work out in the end, really! Good luck on your early apps and my only advice is to try and show who you are and what you love to the adcom, beyond that, it's out of your hands!</p>
<p>Aww, you guys! Don't feel intimidated. I mean, yeah, last year's results were depressing (trust me...especially after RD when many of us finally had to part ways...saddest thing ever), but it's still an experience no matter what. Hopefully a good crop of you will get in, but if not, you will end up at some other awesome place. Last years EDers/RDers ended up all across the board: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, Cornell, UVa, Duke, Berkeley, and many other great places. If nothing else, you'll have plenty of friends to visit around the country (and the globe, shout out to merc and the crew!).</p>
<p>I remember a time when I pretty much thought I was for sure going to be deferred, so I started looking and getting into my other apps. Though you may be disappointed initially, you'll be surprised how easy it is to defect to another college...for the time being until you get into Princeton RD :D (<em>cough</em>zante<em>cough</em>). And we still love her :p</p>
<p>The original post could be written by me except I don't do sports. So I'm basically even more screwed. Who knows, guys? Maybe we'll all see each other at Cornell!</p>
<p>Oh...I felt SO intimidated. Especially after that online Cornell rejection (Cornell has a larger acceptance rate). I seriously never thought I'd get in. I thought they'd take only one person from my school, but they ended up taking two. I remember that day I watched so many movies before the mail came just to keep pushing back the event of getting the mail... </p>
<p>it seems like a lot of people who are interested in Princeton are also interested in Cornell. I feel like the schools have a lot of similarities. Cornell, is obviously bigger and less selective, but they both see to give a similar vibe, idk...</p>
<p>can i give u guys some advice, this is coming from a person who didn't even bother with Princeton (no shot) good stats nonetheless, but the 30-33 percent ED rate at Princeton is very misleading. Most of the athletes come in this part of the application process. Realistically, the ED rate is probably more like 10-15 percent admitted.</p>
<p>That's weird....Princeton's my 1st choice (I'm a rising Junior, will probably apply ED for class of 2011), and my second choice is Cornell too.</p>
<p>I'm feeling really intimidated by all these stats too...and its almost worse that my parents and family are 100% sure that I'll get in wherever I want to go. I tell them the statistics and how low my chances are but they don't listen. Does anyone else have this problem?</p>
<p>I do. My mother said today, "But how many students have your academic profile and another talent?" I just looked at her. Thousands! My parents have no idea the kind of competition I'll be facing.</p>
<p>glinda - ooooooooomg I know EXACTLY what you mean. I have to say tho, getting to look back at it all level-headedly, your parents really do know you. They're worth trusting ;) and become good anchors for you when things really start to hit the fan.</p>
<p>Yeah... haha my parents are always saying, "Well if you don't get in it's because of your SATs, because you didn't practice when I told you to." Somehow I have serious, serious doubts.</p>
<p>hahaha, oh noo. A caveat about the "they're worth trusting", I meant that you should believe that they have some good solid reason for putting so much faith in you. Their reliability concerning actual...well...facts may not be so worth trusting. For example, I remember a conversation two years ago which culminated in "NO stop wasting your time on those tests. The SAT IIs are for people who don't go to school! It's the SAT I that is most important!"</p>
<p>heh. My parents are fine, it's my grandparents who don't get it. They think that just because I got a viewbook from Harvard means that Harvard will automatically admit me, and that I really shouldn't bother with Princeton because I'm in at Harvard anyway... lol! I keep explaining to them that Harvard probably sends out about 100,000 of these, and they just look at me and laugh and say, of course not! Then I tell them that they only sent it to me because of my PSAT scores, and they shake their heads and smile like I have no idea what I'm talking about. I've given up... it's actually sort of amusing.</p>
<p>hhehe awww and I bet your gramps are calling all their friends telling them about their smart young granddaughter who's getting special mail from Harvard : p.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, and remember how they used to send us piles and piles of "special mail"? "Based on your excellent performance in school (right, just because we filled in our GPAs on the PSAT) and test scores (meaning the PSATs), we encourage you to apply to our institution blahblahblah." Well.. as we now know, they've started calling our homes, too, probably because they realize we're recycling their mail. So when I got a call from Harvard, my parents kept urging me to call them back... "Look, Harvard even called our house. They must really want you!"</p>