<p>Hey. I've just placed in the Top Five in my state for a DECA competition, and so I've place high enough to attend Internationals in late April. Do you think I should even bother telling Princeton? Is it too late? Not important enough? And if do how would I go about doing so?</p>
<p>Email your rep.</p>
<p>My rep? How do I find out who this is?</p>
<p>Um, email the general office?
I don't know if this is too late though.</p>
<p>I don't see why it would be too late...even if it is, I don't think the admissions committee would mind taking a look and considering his achievement...go for it, bud! :)</p>
<p>Call the admissions office, find out who your rep is, then wite a note. It not only shows achievement but continued interest.</p>
<p>I've posted this before, and I will say it again. From what the admissions office has told me over the phone, there is nothing a "regional rep" can do for an applicant. It just doesn't work that way anymore. that's not to say that we didn't try to figure out who our regional person was, and we did send her a letter a few months ago. I figured it was worth a try.....</p>
<p>What State/event were you?</p>
<p>I didn't know top 5 made nationals, I thought it was either top 3 or top 1.</p>
<p>I have the same issue - modelling award/ won quiz bowl lol.</p>
<p>oh yeah, I don't know how to inform colleges either, so I'm on the same boat as you</p>
<p>Call admissions and ask to speak with the secretary (administrative assistant) who works with applicants from your area. Tell her you would like to fax her the document containing this information. She will place the fax in your folder. If your application has already been reviewed, I don't know what would happen then. You could ask her.</p>
<p>I disagree with the statement that a regional rep is a thing of the past. Often times it is he or she who advocates for a student to the rest of the committee - because not everyone has the chance to read the entire thing, essays and all.</p>
<p>It is one of the few people you can actually get to know and explain things to more clearly...and it seems to work well if you can convey your application in words to someone who will then be fighting for your acceptance.</p>
<p>I agree with il capo (di tutti capi). They will not say it for fear of being inundated with material, but it can help and will not hurt.
Forza il capo, ci vediamo!
Ciao</p>
<p>I was in the Retail Marketing Research Event for VA.</p>
<p>Oh and the # of competitors a state can take depends on the # of members each state has, and since Va has 11,000 members (i think we're #1 or #2 in the country) it can send more competitors. So this is why they can send the top 5.</p>
<p>ohhh, i see, my state only has like 3000-4000 total members so we usually onl take Top 3 or Top 4 (but only First in a few also)</p>
<p>keep me posted as to what exactly you are doing for informing admissions</p>
<p>First, Thanks everyone for your advice.</p>
<p>Undergraduate Admission Office
P.O. Box 430</p>
<p>Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0430
Phone: (609) 258-3060
Fax: (609) 258-6743
<a href="mailto:uaoffice@princeton.edu">uaoffice@princeton.edu</a></p>
<p>thethoughtprocess: I got this info off the website I'll probably end up emialing or faxing it to the Admissions Office after i call them.</p>
<p>I just e-mailed the general admissions office (<a href="mailto:uaoffice@princeton.edu">uaoffice@princeton.edu</a>) and explained that I wanted them to add information to my file. Include your SSN and D.O.B. and anything else that can confirm your identity for them. I got a CCed e-mail from a secretary to my rep asking to please toss that into my fiile.</p>
<p>I don't anything about all this rep business, but I don't know who mine is for any of my schools, but I've added things to all of my files.</p>
<p>oh thats cool, i'll do the same then. </p>
<p>I guess you had to make the e-mail sound official?</p>
<p>I wouldn't say official per se. I just said, "Hi, this and that has happened since I submitted my application, please add this into the Extracurricular section, thanks a lot."</p>
<p>"I disagree with the statement that a regional rep is a thing of the past"</p>
<p>I would hope that you are correct about the reps not being a thing of the past, but two phone calls to the admin office said that basically there is no such thing as a regional rep anymore (at least not one to help guide you through). There is one that represents pton at "admission open houses".</p>
<p>My d sent a letter to the regional rep, hoping against hope that she can indeed do something to help, and we are hoping that the people who told her that over the phone were mistaken.</p>