<p>What percentage of Latinos, Mexican......at Princeton? How many apply and are accepted ED and regular? I just want to know my chances.
Any stats available?</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>princeton is about 3.6% mexican american and 3% other hispanic. minorities have a 15% overall acceptance rate (but, of course, that includes asians). so, for a latino/latina i'd say that the chances for regular decision run somewhere in the mid-20s.</p>
<p>I believe Princeton will only accept "qualified" latinos candidates.</p>
<p>I believe that only "qualified" students will apply to Princeton</p>
<p>Haha, don't kid yourself.</p>
<p>lol, thanx bok...you are a HUGE help</p>
<p>Don't you think professors would complaint if they see low performance from latinos or other minorities? Believe me, admissions will rectify that the following year.....Same with High schools...if one year they admit students from a certain school and those student don't do well, you can be certain that that particular school would be "black listed"</p>
<p>You've probably all read the interview in the Daily Princetonian with Janet Rapelye when she took the helm at Princeton, voicing her commitment to focusing on the admittance of minorities, who made up 40% of the student body at Wellesley, her prior employer.</p>
<p>Just a point of information. The 40% represents 'students of color.' Color usually includes Asians which are not generally considered a URM as their representation in most elite schools is greater than their % of the overall population. While some schools talk the 'color' number I think they really outreach for URMs. Very important but senstive topic.</p>
<p>wsox -- good point and one I would not have thought of, because I forget to categorize people by their color.</p>
<p>hey thats not fair. im mexican but white is a color too. i mean, white is every single color mixed, see my point?</p>
<p>anyone will complain about any low performance...there is no need to categorize by race. reruited atheletes, i would say, probably are more of a problem in that respect. who cares if your school is "black listed"? a bright student stands out anywhere.</p>
<p>How can a bright student stand out when there are so many 1500+ SAT performers who have climbed Mt. Everest, halted devastation of the rain forests and, in their spare time, performed with the Bolshoi ballet being rejected by these schools? </p>
<p>I read the archived threads for last year's acceptances at P and, I think, Y, and one of them, I think Y, showed several 1500+ SAT students with impressive EC's being deferred while URM's with what appeared to be less illustrious stats were accepted. No doubt this was CC's micro-cosmic picture of the university's attempt to achieve diversity.</p>
<p>I'm not saying that they are wrong or right in their decisions -- I am not qualiified to make such a judgement first because I am not in their shoes and second because as the parent of a high-achieving student on the new 'wrong side of the tracks', I probably cannot escape a prejudice in his favor.</p>
<p>The adcoms (what does that term mean, anyway?) are in the position of having to play God, and I'm sure they do the best they can given the end result they are told to come up with, if indeed they are given such a goal. I'm certain that they are educated and caring people who are well aware of the impact of their decisions and the influence they wield far into the future with each decision they make. </p>
<p>It's just going to be harder to like them if they aren't nice to my kid. Or to every one of you.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>The reason why I don't like stats is because they're just that: stats. Princeton doesn't evaluate stats. They evaluate people. And that's why "what are my chances?" posts are just ridiculous, in my opinion. So certain people may not have a 1500+ SAT I score. Big deal. I can't stand that some people base chances on test scores alone. Then, if you get in, and your SAT score isn't "good enough," people start making comments. What about the people out there who contribute more to society than taking tests (which isn't really contributing at all)? Some are so quick to classify URM's in the lower SAT range and then say they (we) don't deserve to be there. Give me a break. I may not have the hottest SAT score, but I damn sure have done my part in the rest of my application (as have many others).</p>
<p>Yeah, we're about to talk about AA in government (next Monday). This will be interesting...</p>
<p>i envy you
if only my teacher thought like that!</p>
<p>Philntex --</p>
<p>I wasn't speaking hypothetically; I was referring to one of the archived threads for which someone put the link up about a week ago. </p>
<p>As students received their ED notifications and reported in on the thread as to whether they had been accepted or deferred/rejected, my impression was that those who indicated they were URM's were consistently accepted and were in a lower SAT range than many of the students who were deferred/rejected and did not have URM status. Was I wrong?</p>
<p>Similarly, I have seen comments suggesting that living in the New Jersey area can work against an otherwise qualified student -- if there's any truth to that, again, it may have to do with P's effort to attain diversity. It's not my place to make a value judgement about it if the school views it as desirable to not 'overrepresent' the immediate geographic area so as to present a more cosmopolitan environment, just as seeking out URM's offers a different kind of diversity. P is a private institution and it's not my right to question their approach one way or the other. As a student, if I didn't approve of their philosophy, then I would certainly have the right to not apply. </p>
<p>However, any way in which a university limits applicants geographically or otherwise means qualified applicants won't be admitted. And that's very, very tough to accept if you're one of those qualified applicants. Es verdad?</p>
<p>I understand what you're saying. I really wasn't targeting you specifically but rather just the general sentiment that seems to be around these boards. I just don't like to read when people assume that the lower SAT scores were made by minority applicants. If you have facts (for the whole Princeton class, not just people on CC), that's great. Show me. But assumptions based on nothing but personal beliefs/opinions are just outrageous, in my opinion. No offense intended. I still hope dizzyson gets in :)</p>
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<p>hahah, i love that statement...i'm not sure if that was intentional =)</p>
<p>double standard, no? i tend to talk out of both sides of my mouth sometimes...</p>
<p>THe funny thing is, for Activist Latinos who truly want to make a difference for their communities, you will feel suffocated at Princeton. Princeton is a school that looks down upon any non White minority, and treats them less than sub humanly. Such treatment takes its toll on your upper ceiling of potential. </p>
<p>If you go to UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, UCSD, instead, you will find La Raza, RZA, type of activities that are going on all the time, and you can truly do everything you want to for your Latino community while pursuing a top notch education.</p>