<p>One of my classmates made a random comment that Princeton is a lot harder this year to get into early. Is this founded or not? It does seem like there are a lot of people using this collegeconfidential for posts on Pton according to the number of posts and stuff.</p>
<p>no, for our school all other ivies are harder this year and princeton seems to be more accomedating, but then...10 out of 12 who got in had faculty connections.... O.o</p>
<p>At my school...
1 person applied to Columbia, and got deferred.
3 people applied to Brown, all deferred (and one was incredibly qualified)
2 people applied to Penn, one rejected (as a reasonably qualified legacy), the other deferred (very well-qualified).
3 people applied to Princeton and we all got in.</p>
<p>Crap, I don't have any faculty connections. But then again, only one other person that I know of at my school applied to Pton and he probably doesn't have any either and he's a lot worse than me in almost every possible way. How important are faculty connections? What if I mentioned someone I would like to work with in research? Does that count?</p>
<p>For us:
Pton: 1 Admit, 2(?) Defer, 1 Reject
Columbia: 2 Admit, 1 Defer (Pretty Strong)
J. Hopkins: 3 Admit (Decent to Strong)
Gtown: 2 Admit, ~3 Defer (Very strong)
Brown: 1 Admit (Very strong)
Dartmouth: 1 Admit (Don't know her)
Hahvahd: ~5 Deferred (Pretty strong, but not exceptional people)
MIT: 3 Deferred (2 Reaaaally good kids, 1 pretty good kid)</p>
<p>For my school: </p>
<p>Pton: 5 Deferrals
Columbia: 1 Admit (Recruited Athlete)
J. Hopkins: 1 Deferral
Dartmouth: 1 Admit (Insanely smart, but a really bad character... she's gloating now...)
Harvard: 3 Deferrals (One is incredibly brillant, already publishes papers, and took AP BC calc soph. year... aced it..he is 1. in class, another speaks 4 fluent languages. they all got perfect sats.)
MIT: 1 Deferral (Very one sided kid.. kinda John Nashy...maybe he'll just go to CMU)
UPenn: 3 Rejects (One Legacy here)
Cornell: 2 Rejects
Yale: I think 1 deferral; only one girl applied...
Duke: Several Deferrals
CMU: 2 Admits? </p>
<p>That's all I can recall of the top of my head...</p>
<p>I am the only one out of 680 kids at my school applying to an Ivy league university.</p>
<p>1 deferral from princeton</p>
<p>Only person at my school to apply to any Ivy. </p>
<p>1 Rejection from Cornell.</p>