Chances Please!!! (Econ Major)

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<p>Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am interested in applying to Princeton RD and plan on majoring in Economics.</p>

<p>Here are some of my stats:</p>

<p>White Male (came from Europe right before 7th grade, I have dual citizenship)
First in family to attend college in US</p>

<p>SATs
Math IIC: 800
Chem: 770
will take the French SAT II next time</p>

<p>ACT with writing: 35</p>

<p>GPA UW: 4.0
GPA W: 5.0
Rank: 2/610</p>

<p>AP Chem 5
AP Stats 5</p>

<p>Most rigorous schedule possible.</p>

<p>Junior year I had 5 honors and 2 AP classes. </p>

<p>Senior year schedule:</p>

<p>AP Biology
AP Calculus BC
AP English
AP US Government
AP Physics B
AP French
Honors Spanish 3</p>

<p>I can almost speak four languages (since I lived in Europe for 13 years)</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer - about 150 hours, doing it for 2 years
Chess Team (co-captain) 4 years
National Honor Society 2 years
Mathematics Honor Society 2 years
French Honor Society (treasurer) 3 years
National Merit Commended (211 I think)
Scholastic Bowl 2 years
Math Team 4 years
Math Tutor
Gold Caddie past two summers
Have done a fund raiser for My Lai Peace Park in Vietnam
Various other jobs (the more significant one is one that I have been doing for the past 3 years but only requires 2-4 hours a week)</p>

<p>Awards:
1st place in Math team conference at junior level
Student of the month for various things
Other school awards</p>

<p>There might be other things I can't remember right now.</p>

<p>My recommendations should be excellent and he essays should be pretty good too. ( I hope)</p>

<p>Thank you very much for the help.</p>

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<p>Although you have no EC that seems to jump out, I think you are definitely in the running and you produce a solid application. Good luck, and I wouldn't be surpirsed at all if you were accepted</p>

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<p>In the running because of scores/grades, but it kinda stops there. I don't see you getting in simply because there are other applicants out there with similar scores/grades that don't have a laundry list of ECs, but actually have some impressive/passionate ECs. Economics doesn't help you much either.</p>

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<p>I'd say you have a decent chance in terms of test scores, but economics is a terribly crowded major.</p>

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<p>Yeah you might want to put down your strongest major instead of economics; it looks weird having never taken an economics class and yet wanting to major in it...chem would be nice.</p>

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<p>About not having taken an economics class yet, my original plan was to take AP Micro and Macro econ this year but I couldn't fit them into my schedule. I might self study them but I'm not sure yet. </p>

<p>For a major, programs that would interest me at Princeton are Finance, Economics or Operations Research and Financial Engineering (this one sounds extremely interesting). </p>

<p>Thank you very much for your help. Could anyone else chance me please?</p>

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<p>If you can write a decent essay for the engineering prompt on the Princeton app, you might have a better shot applying for BSE and then switching to AB in econ. ORFE and econ have many similarities anyway. Finance is a certificate and you can take it with any major.</p>

<p>That being said, the difference in difficulty isn't that significant, so don't worry too much about econ being a crowded major.</p>

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<p>Well now that I have looked more into Econ and ORFE, I think my greatest interest would be in ORFE (plus you guys said econ was crowded).</p>