<p>(nervous- 2nd time asking)
junior
1460sat
Taking 5 APs between this year and next.
All As 11th/12th(predicting)
My 10th/9th gpa was a lot worse- many Bs and a D in chem (had family problems+dispute with teacher)</p>
<p>Excellant ECs- Founded 2 engineering clubs, officier of 3 clubs(tsa, scioly, mualphatheta) all 4 years
national science olympiad and national tsa awards (including a couple gold/1st place)
Will be doing a siemens westinghouse project over the summer-research at penn and princeton.
Parent is a professor at princeton. Legacy.</p>
<p>What are my chances ED next year? Will my terrible chem grade and 9-10 grades completely screw me?
I'm hoping for a 2200-2300 on new sat(lots of study over the past year).</p>
<p>The D in chem really does hurt, was it AP Chem? Have you gotten any C's? If not, and if your GPA rank is decent(top 10 out of several hundred) then I think you may still have a chance, otherwise I don't think your chances are that hot. Even then your chances are still pretty slim, Princeton is like the most selective Ivy at the moment... Try for some hook or something like RSI.</p>
<p>I think you still have a good shot, especially with your parent being a professor there. Your SAT is not that strong for Princeton, but your course selection and EC's are outstanding. Going ot that summer program will help too i think. And for the D in Chem, you said you had family problems...your guidance counselor can fill out a form that talks about reasons for unusually low grades.</p>
<p>If your parent is a prof, he/she has connections who can answer your question way better than any of us here can. Do you think high school kids have a clue compared to other profs who have seen over the years which of their kids were accepted?</p>
<p>No other poor grades except for the d and scattered Bs 9th/10th. I'm doing siemenes and research, rsi is far to selective. School doesnt rank, top 50 public in the nation. My mom isn't connected with admissions, though she said she'd look into it (typically professors do not know the stats of the freshman, etc.)</p>
<p>My consuler would probably be very willing to write about that grade (and year), the family issue was fairly significant. I had conflicts with the teacher (who was the coach of scioly) from before the start of the year (concerning his handling of the club and the team). It was an honors course, though he is by far the most challenging teacher in the school. It was my mistake to let EC interfere with chem, however i was, and still am, very dedicated to scioly.</p>
<p>hyp2010, Youre in automatically. One of ur parents is a freakin professor there and ur a legacy.....u could get in with a 1200/3.0....hell the bum on the corner smoking pot could get in with ur connections</p>
<p>Dude your parent is a professor at Princeton? Don't worry about it. Just kick back, relax, maybe pop open a beer or two, and watch the acceptance letter roll in.</p>
<p>(Which is stupid in my opinion. Just cause your parent goes shouldn't mean that you get to go as well. No fair.)</p>
<p>What are you guys talking about? The legacy would help though, but just because one of his parents is a professor at Princeton does not mean that he gets a quick ticket in.</p>
<p>Yea, the Amherst video scarred the crap out of me.<br>
I believe professor is a bigger tip than legacy, but still no substitute for perfect grades, high scores, and all-star ECs :/</p>
<p>Legacy is a huge factor...Princeton Dean himself said so. Not only is he part of a legacy but his mom's a fricken professor there!!! I'd say your chances are like 90%, when they're like 8% for everyone else.</p>
<p>sentient = actually the biggest hook is having a professor as a parent =P its basically guaranteed admission...unless of course u have nothing =D</p>
<p>I'm not saying that having a parent that is a professor doesn't help, but I highly doubt that it would make that much of a difference. Its not a very good hook. Especially with Princeton, which is notorious for being highly academically oriented, the average GPA/SAT of a freshman admittee is extremely high, even higher than that of Harvard and Yale. Princeton places more emphasis on academics than ECs and other things like. </p>
<p>I'm certainly not to discourage you or anything hyp2010, you still have a chance, but don't count on the relation to a professor alone to get you in.</p>
<p>Sentient, if you reread my post, i was asking for a prediction of my stats as a whole, I wasn't simply asking if my parent's career would get me in, nor was I suggesting that it had a very large or very small impact on my chances.</p>
<p>I believe you misinterpreted my post. It was not really directed at you(other than the last part). It was a response to shrek's and other people's posts.</p>
<p>I told you that with your stats your chances of getting in would be rather slim, especially with the "D" in Chem. Admission into Ivies is extremely cutthroat, a good amount of times "C" eliminate you from the running, unless you are outstanding/excellent in some other aspect.</p>
<p>As I said above, the first part of my post was not entirely directed towards you, though you said that your parent's carrer would be more useful than legacy - which I respectfully disagree with. Mostly it was a response to shrek's comment and directed towards the comments like:</p>
<p>"Dude your parent is a professor at Princeton? Don't worry about it. Just kick back, relax, maybe pop open a beer or two, and watch the acceptance letter roll in."</p>
<p>"hyp2010, Youre in automatically. One of ur parents is a freakin professor there and ur a legacy.....u could get in with a 1200/3.0....hell the bum on the corner smoking pot could get in with ur connections"</p>
<p>I must beg to differ with the comments like that. Relation to a professor may help, but it certainly does not make it a sure-shot chance - not by a long shot.</p>
<p>Guys, if you look at the stats of accepted legacies at ivies, they are as good or higher than the stats of non legacies. Also, there is no way a school can let in every professors kid, especially ones with 12% admit rate. It's a boost, but no more than a lot of things.</p>
<p>Also, there are all shades of professors. If your parent is a Nobel winner they don't want to **** off, you have a great shot. If he teaches freshman english, less of one.</p>
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Guys, if you look at the stats of accepted legacies at ivies, they are as good or higher than the stats of non legacies.
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EA stats are a little higher at some but not all schools (eg, harvard), ED are are weaker everywhere that offers ED. All are well above the average applicants in th pool. Source: Early Admissions Game.</p>
<p>I see, sentient, will my dramatically improved GPA offset the reprocotions of a sophmore D (and the family issue)?
Is there anything more I can do to downplay that grade, aside from increasing my gpa and courseload, as they are very close to maxed out for my junior and senior years. I am very dedicated to my clubs, and will remain so (hopefully we will again make it to scioly and tsa nationals). In addition, I will be the founding president of FIRST robotics at our highschool senior year (I am organizing the club this year).</p>