<p>hmmmmmm...can anyone find stats on RECRUITS?</p>
<p>Well, not 50 are building donors, but they still need to fill this "miscellaneous" group with certain things like a montana student and URMs and "little people" (could that be a URM??)</p>
<p>haha i like how no one got accepted off of the waitlist.</p>
<p>ya, really</p>
<p>Ok.. data for the recruits coming up.</p>
<p>This is the best I could get so far -- a comment referring to the class of 2000.</p>
<p>"While demanding superior academic achievement from its entering freshmen <a href="17%20percent%20of%20whom%20are%20recruited%20athletes">i</a>*"</p>
<p>17 percent recruited athletes</p>
<h1>13.9 percent legacies</h1>
<p>30.9 percent recruited athletes/legacies</p>
<p>~~1200 spots</p>
<p>==</p>
<p>370 recruited athletes/legacies</p>
<p>Not all of which applied early</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epaw/archive_old/PAW99-00/09-0209/0209sptx.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW99-00/09-0209/0209sptx.html</a></p>
<p>ouch. i imagine at least 250 of those athletes applied early. It's worse than i thought.</p>
<p>Ack, I think you mighta misinterpreted my post as I combined both the legacies and the recruited athletes into that figure.</p>
<p>Recruited athletes (17%) consist of 204 people.
Legacies (13.9%) consist of 166 people.</p>
<p>Altogether (assuming a class of 1200) that's the total of 370.</p>
<p>If we assume 250-300 people applied early, that's still better than the initial estimate of 200 + 200 = 400 people.</p>
<p>You're right. It's not * as * bad as i predicted.</p>
<p>damn...i'd love to be a developmental case...i'll donate millions to princeton</p>
<p>also there could be some that are legacies and recruits or recruits and urm etc.</p>
<p>Good point.</p>
<p>Moral of the story: we're not as screwed as we once thought we were.. but we're still screwed.</p>
<p>However, everyone from CC is getting in to Princeton ED, so look on the bright side! :)</p>
<p>Hear, hear!!</p>
<p>lol, i believe it</p>
<p>This post has me tremblin in my boots</p>
<p>Ah oops. I just started another thread on this without seeing this one. Hahah.</p>
<p>Hah it seems like everyone who will get into Princeton is:
1. An athlete
2. A legacy
3. URM
4. Donors
5. Famous and/or a millionaire
6. Some freaky kid who did tons of research and discovered a cure for cancer</p>
<p>And what do I have that no one else has?</p>
<p>Number One Dental Speller in the Nation.</p>
<p>teehee. Quite comedic if you look at it that way.</p>
<p>Maybe they'll think I'm pathetic and accept me as some sort of entertainment for the bourgeois.</p>
<p>I didn't even apply ED so maybe I shouldn't be commenting here but I just want to say that there is one thing that none of you are considering: you are all in LOVE with Princeton. It takes a certain level of passion for a school to spend hours in the forum...and we all do that. It's like the Princeton forum with our highly entertaining games and inside jokes is fun and when you step out into College Admissions or whatever you're leaving home. I know that just because you love a school like Princeton doesn't mean that you will be accepted, but I think that most CC EDers (too many letters!) are well-qualified to begin with and that none of you are realizing that the passion you have must have been conveyed somehow, whether it was through your interview or your essays or your letters of rec or whatever. I admire all of you for putting yourself out there and applying ED (in my opinion, it's way scarier than RD for some reason) and I sincerely hope each and every one of you does get in.</p>
<p>And also, I don't think that there are THAT many developmental cases. And even if there are, whoever pointed it out before was probably right...if they're like that then they don't really need to apply ED. </p>
<p>Number one dental speller? Does that mean you are the best at spelling terms related to dentistry?</p>
<p>So, yeah, even though I'm not really part of ya'll's Princeton ED gang, I read a lot of these threads and I'm rooting for all of ya'll.</p>
<p>haha yes it does mean that.
sounds stupid doesn't it?
stupid, yet true.
it's VERY hard though.</p>
<p>lol, she makes letters and spells out words using toothbrushes and dental floss :)</p>
<p>Haha, I can imagine. Bruxomania and cantilever bridges and things like that...no way I could spell them.</p>