<p>Hey everyone, I know we are all nervous, but the deadline is fast approaching, and I think it helps if us nerve-wrecked ivy league applicants offer each other some mutual support. Post your thoughts, questions, etc., here.</p>
<p>If you’re going to go to Princeton, you should check out the website and it’s many pages to determine if it’s the right place for you. For example, engineering at MIT has a certain flavor while at Princeton it’s very different. You shouldn’t just go for the name. Go for the match to your interests, abilities and goals.</p>
<p>I’ve applied to Princeton and I really hope I got in - last year a few people from my school applied to at least 2 Ivies each and every single one got rejected, even with high grades, SAT scores, etc. My school seems to have a really unlucky streak with the Ivy League, but I guess we’ll find out March 30th.</p>
<p>Three items that determine admission to a top school: achievement, passion, and diversity. I assume you have demonstrated your excellence in the first two. The last, diversity, is not simply about race, class, or gender. Each college is targeting a certain kind of diversity, which changes each year: Science majors, tuba players, whatever. So, if you happen to fit that particular diversity (in addition to having high test scores, grades, letters, etc.), you are in. Since it is hard to predict the diversity element, the fat/thin envelope question (i.e., accept or reject) is dicey; almost like winning the lottery. It is all right to have high hopes, but it would be delusional to have high expectations.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you. I very much hope you make it to your dream school. But if you don’t, remember my point about the role of chance, and do your best in the college that accepts you. As the song goes “if you can’t be with the one you love, then love the one you are with.”</p>
<p>BTW, I am a father. My first daughter made it to Princeton a few years ago. My second daughter is waiting to hear from her dream schools this week.</p>
<p>Princeton is my #2 school and I would looooove to get in. I’ll be sitting eagerly at my computer at 2 pm (PST) on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Good luck, everyone!</p>
<p>This is hilarious, and it kind of cheered me up, in a weird sort of way. [YouTube</a> - How High Schoolers Imagine the College Admissions Process](<a href=“How High Schoolers Imagine the College Admissions Process - YouTube”>How High Schoolers Imagine the College Admissions Process - YouTube)</p>
<p>Good luck guys. I hope to see many of you along with myself come September.</p>
<p>That link was hilarious.</p>
<p>I got IN!!!</p>
<p>waitlisted… what should i do? i really want to go to princeton!</p>
<p>Waitlisted as well. Can anyone explain what this means? I’ve heard from some friends that accepting priority waitlisting is similar to early decision applications where it becomes binding, but since you don’t find out until after May 1st, does this mean I don’t accept to any other college? If so, what if I don’t get a seat, do I just miss a year?</p>
<p>@mvxxxxxxx7, or whatever… stats???</p>
<p>Did you find out if you were accepted via U.S. mail or email? My son applied and has not heard from Princeton yet. We live in southern California</p>
<p>I have yet to hear back from them…odd. Oh well. I can’t say I’m expecting much. haha</p>
<p>@BusyMother its on their web page</p>
<p>Good luck! Going to Princeton was the best decision I ever made. I picked it over Harvard and Yale which surprised some people, but I’m telling you, you can’t go wrong, this place is amazing.</p>
<p>econgirl… please elaborate</p>
<p>my son got into Harvard and Princeton. How will he decide? He is very happy but now doesn’t know what to do.</p>
<p>“waitlisted… what should i do? i really want to go to princeton!”</p>
<p>Waitlisting puts you in a tough place. The best thing you can do is remain on the waiting list, and proceed as if you’re not going to get in (so in other words, choose a school that has accepted you, send in the deposit, plan on going there, and decide that you’re going to like it, because you probably will). </p>
<p>If you were waitlisted at Princeton, it means that you probably were accepted at some superb schools, the kind of schools that most kids could only dream of getting into.</p>
<p>I hate to tell you this, but Princeton normally puts many, many applicants on the waiting list (last year, it was about 1450). If there are spots remaining after May 1, they pull from the waiting list to balance out the class. That means that if there are not enough violinists, they’ll add some violinists from the waiting list, assuming there is room at all. Or they add kids from Montana. Or whatever other type of student is missing.</p>
<p>Send them a letter telling how interested you still are, and move on to your other options.</p>
<p>Princeton '81</p>