<p>A simple you did not make the cut is preferable. Who gives a rodent’s behind about how many classes they can fill? It is just something they pulled out of the papers copying the statement from Harvard or some other school to the newspapers. It is not something they need to put in an actual letter.</p>
<p>All I can say from a school like Princeton I would expect some original statements as opposed regurgitated cliches from 2005. I am actually hoping some Princeton adcom reads this so they write a better letter next year.</p>