chance for princeton scea

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Grade Point Average: not weighted ~98, weighted 109 (our school doesn't do 4.0 scale)</p>

<p>SAT: 2310 super scored, 2270 first time (freshman year - 800 mathematics 750 writing, 720 critical reading)
2240 second time (junior year - 800 mathematics 680 writing, 760 critical reading)</p>

<p>I am not submitting my SAT, unless you think I should.</p>

<p>ACT: 35 (36 math, 36 science, 35 reading, 34 writing, 34 combined (11 essay))</p>

<p>SAT II: Mathematics II: 800, Biology: 790 , US History: 720 (Quite bad), Physics: 800.</p>

<p>Race/ethnicity/background: middle class, Indian (moved from UK), Long Island, New York.</p>

<p>Advanced Placement Classes: I am an incoming senior, so by year:
Freshman - Pre-AP World (1st year), Honors Bio, Algebra 2 and Trig first half of year, switched into Precalculus (normally a 11th grade class at my school), Spanish 2H
Sophomore - AP World, AP Bio, AP Calc, Honors Chem, Spanish 3H
Junior - AP USH, AP Physics B, AP Computer Science, AP English Language, AP Statistics, Spanish 4H
Senior year (PLANNED) - AP Chem, Im trying to get an AP Physics C course created, AP English Lit, AP US Gov't, AP Spanish, and multivariable calculus (I am trying, once again).</p>

<p>On the 8 APs taken so far, I have gotten 5 on all.</p>

<p>Other courses: 4 years of orchestra, 4 years of science research</p>

<p>Sports: Varsity 4 years X-country (will be a captain next year, most likely), 4 years varsity tennis team (captain junior yr, forecasted senior year, school mvp awards)</p>

<p>Internships: summer (9th-10th), went to India at interned at a tech company (Tech Mahindra), learned Java
summer(10th-11th), went to MSKCC, at did some cancer research (no I have not cured cancer, although if I had I am sure, I wouldn't be making this thread right now)
summer(11th-12th), intern at SBU Simons program, working again on cancer research
during senior year, I plan to intern at Cold Spring Harbor Labs in a highly selective program</p>

<p>Clubs/memberships:
Mathletes - all four years, do local math league, consistently in top 50 out of ~1000 students. HIghest rank was 5th in sophomore year. Have done AMC 8 (cleared), AMC 12, and AIME, scored well on those. Other math tournaments (highest rank was 2nd). Go to NYSML and ARML. Captain of mathletes team.
Robotics - sophomore, junior, and projected senior year on team, lead programmer, will be an officer this coming year. really love it, even though are team doesn't do that well.
Spanish Honor Society/National Honor Society
Tolerance Club
Student Civic
Freshman Class Treasurer (did not run for reelection)
Tri-M honor society</p>

<p>Columbia SHP
PSAT 233 (I think finalist level?)</p>

<p>Class rank: school doesn't rank, but school is small so estimated 1st-3rd</p>

<p>Other Awards: I won the RPI medal this year, a few others, Philosophy Slam 4th place, Long Island Science Congress Honors, some music awards, SUNY Old westbury math program, accpeted to PROMYS (didn't attend)</p>

<p>Volunteer work: not much, tutoring, hospital volunteer work 10th grade, plan to create a tutoring app like SO sort of that school will use, plan to do some things over summer, volunteered in clinic in India (with my aunt whos a doctor)</p>

<p>Recommendations: Teachers I will ask (one english who writes well, she said I had a great personality) and (other math, who has known me for a very long time). I also plan to ask my science internship PI as an extra.</p>

<p>Please leave comments about anything I am missing.</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>Average chances, there’s nothing that really stands out in your app aside from AIME and the RPI medal. I’d expect a defer.</p>

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<p>@Zwischenzug
I disagree. AIME qualification is easy and does not stand out at all, especially for Princeton. I think the internships are more impressive, but they also may not be enough for Princeton.</p>

<p>@lb43823
Cancer research may not be enough if you did not discover anything new or win Intel/Siemens/Google/ISEF. All in all, I think your chances are a little bit above average.</p>

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<p>Okay, thanks best one can do is hope, right? :slight_smile: Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Um, so, according to Princeton’s website, 14.8% of students with 2300-2400 (which is 35 ACT equivalent) are accepted. That is overall. But during SCEA, 18.5% of applicants are accepted as opposed to 7.4% overall or exactly a 2.5x fold change. Multiplying 14.8 by 2.5, you get 37%. I would adjust it to about 30% to account for the fact that the average SCEA applicant is more competitive than the average regular applicant. If my chances are slightly above average, for my standardized testing group, then I would say it is about 40%, and I would take those chances any day :D</p>

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<p>Oh and just to add…
@Zwischenzug‌ Those are probably the least impressive. AIME is nothing special, and RPI medal is given based on how good you are at your high school (I do not even think I put that on my app)</p>

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<p>IB - two reasons for the SCEA rate being significantly higher: athletes and legacies. </p>

<p>Princeton admits roughly 230 recruited athletes every year and most apply SCEA. For those that apply SCEA, the acceptance rate is extremely high (perhaps very close to 100%). So, of the 725 admitted SCEA perhaps up to 200 are recruited athletes - somewhere between 25% and 30% of SCEA acceptances. </p>

<p>While I have no knowledge of legacies accepted during the SCEA round, at Penn legacies only get an advantage in the SCEA round. If that is true at Princeton, legacies will be disproportionately represented in SCEA.</p>

<p>When you try to parse the tea leaves, the rates of acceptance RD and SCEA are much much closer then the raw stats indicate. But, it is in the institution’s interests to obscure that.</p>

<p>As for the OP, it is a good resume. I would suggest that testing stop and focus on leadership positions in ECs (not serial leadership; leadership in areas of interest) and when writing begins, in essays. All one can say is that the OP is competitive academically. Whether OP is competitive in all the holistic stuff is not knowable; but there is nothing absolutely unique YET. </p>

<p>But there is nothing to lose applying SCEA (so long as the application submitted is as strong as it could be) because virtually everyone who is not accepted is deferred until RD.</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>Solid candidate. But so are thousands of other applicants. I would say youre in or waitlisted.</p>

<p>Chance me back plsllsl </p>

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<p>bump</p>