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<p>if you love princeton, then please answer the following questions:}</p>

<li>How many subject test should one take for Princeton?Which ones?</li>
<li>Do you have to take both SAT ans ACT test for Princeton?</li>
<li>Does your background/race really matter to Princetion? (I am from Afghanistan)</li>
<li>Is it an advantage if you leave in NJ?</li>
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<p>I’m going to be 10th grader and have started to think about college, sorry I kinda sound clue less about Princeton but before I had not think about these thing like sat2.</p>

<p>Thank You</p>

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<li><p>Three tests in different areas. (If you want to attend Princeton you should be able to find this out on your own...)</p></li>
<li><p>No (again...)</p></li>
<li><p>URM (underrepresented minorities) have an edge in college admission.</p></li>
<li><p>No, sorry... In fact, it's pretty much the worst state to live in for Ivy League admission.</p></li>
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<li>As Rister_Chutophs said, you need three SAT II tests.</li>
<li>No.</li>
<li>Background matters to every college. However you are not an under-represented minority, so it will not work to your advantage.</li>
<li>No, living in New Jersey will hurt you chances for getting into any top college. New Jersey is an over-represented state in college admissions. I can imagine it would be even worse for Princeton because many applicants from New Jersey would apply there.</li>
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<p>Aren't more students from NJ accepted, though? (relatively speaking)</p>

<p>I know that ~115 people from NJ applied for the OA trip (out of 649 total). So, assuming an acceptance of 1,600 people and assuming that the OA portion is representative of the whole, that's 283 people from NJ accepted.*</p>

<p>*Yes, I realize that everyone who's took AP Stat is rolling their eyes right now. Just assume 115, then, as a minimum.</p>

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<p>too many variables going into that.
NJ applicants are closer to home and much more likely to go on one of those trips. (I'm not hauling a backpack, hiking boots, etc from michigan just to go on something like that)</p>

<p>NJ/NY has more, more competitive applicants. Thus your chances are lower period.</p>

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<p>They took 16% in-state students. You do the math.</p>

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<p>thank you guys
Sometimes I wish i lived in Alaska or New Mexico, but there is no place like NJ in the U.s</p>

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<p>Afghanistan is not an URM.</p>

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<p>16% true.
Applicants are far more competitive in NJ though
If one kid is from NJ and another is from MS with near equal states, they're taking the MS kid.</p>

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Aren't more students from NJ accepted, though? (relatively speaking)</p>

<p>I know that ~115 people from NJ applied for the OA trip (out of 649 total). So, assuming an acceptance of 1,600 people and assuming that the OA portion is representative of the whole, that's 283 people from NJ accepted.*

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<p>I think what a lot of people forget is that a decent number of the admits from NJ are kids with faculty connections or whose Princeton-area school has a very strong connection with the University. </p>

<p>Someone told me 18 kids from Princeton HS got into the University last year, and that many (most) had some connection to faculty. Other private schools, like Delbarton, have historically strong ties to the University, as do [the very competitive] area public schools in the West Windsor area. And some private schools, like Lawrenceville, have both faculty-ties and a strong University relationship (and some pretty smart people too, mind you).</p>

<p>If you get these kids out of the equation, and then adjust for the fact that the NJ yield is probably higher than the yield from most states (i.e. of the kids who get admitted, more from NJ choose to come) because of geographical vicinity, whatever advantage NJ seems to have in the numbers vanishes. </p>

<p>Indeed, like other posters have stated, if you consider that NJ probably sends higher number of applications to Princeton as well as the fact that - like CA, MA, etc. - is very competitive, you're probably looking at a disadvantage applying from the state (unless you go to one of those schools above). My guess would be that it's not really that much harder from NJ than it is from, say, MA, but it's certainly not easier, much less "an advantage" in the application process.</p>

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<p>hey gaffe, what do you mean by URM?</p>

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<p>under represented minority
latino, black, native american</p>