<p>What is the Princeton's SAT cutoff score for minorities?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that Princeton (or pretty much any school) doesn't have one single cutoff score for admission for any group, whether it is minorities or athletes or any other group. They look at applications as a whole.</p>
<p>Wow_98, dude be careful about bluntly asking this question. I know this isn't the Harvard forum but people get crazy mad if you ask this directly. So far though from what I have seen at Yale, if you have everything else great: (Valedictorian or Salutatorian, lots of passionate community service, rigorous course load, and a diversity of ethnic AND in mentality ) minorities have gotten in with upper 1300s and mid 1400s! A girl got into harvard with a 1280 but she had exceptional circumstances. Hmmm...I admire her!</p>
<p>Personally I hope to get in with a 32 on the ACT. I will probably get 740, 700, and 690 on the SATIIs though. Everything else in my application is stellar though!</p>
<p>"people get crazy mad if you ask this directly"</p>
<p>hmmm, really? i thought ilovemath's response was very civil. Anyway, this is the Princeton forum, where people are supportive of each other and don't get "crazy mad" ;)</p>
<p>ilovemath was telling the truth, though... there really is no SAT cutoff. SAT's are only a small part of the whole. Amazing ec's and teacher recs can compensate for lower SAT's, while a mediocre essay can be offset by great scores. Don't forget... there is no mathematical formula for admission! :)</p>
<p>I think apfreak is referring to the reaction when he/she asked a similar question on the Harvard board.</p>
<p>oh... gotcha :D</p>
<p>Yes...:) but also read the harvard board a post by Ukraine88! Minority 40% It is absolutely ludicrous!! This person literally has the mindset of a white supremmist!! Can we say Know Nothing Party (go AP US hist!!) because he has the same views but ohh soo sadlly he knows CRAP!</p>
<p>Seriously, I have never been so bitingly, acidically sarcastic in making posts than in that thread! Go check it out! Ukraine88 has...(um) plenty of oh..smiling happy support!</p>
<p>Not all URMs have low SAT scores. I'm hispanic and have a 2250 and have gotten 750 plus on all my SAT 2s. I am sure plenty of URMs have done well on standardized tests as well.</p>
<p>Hey n1gigdude, are you Puerto Rican? How many Puerto Rican's apply to Harvard or Princeton or Yale total? I wonder if they compare us in a way within our ethnic group??</p>
<p>No I am not puerto rican.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, what different ethnic groups are considered URMS at Princeton? Any different from other top schools?</p>
<p>What kind of circumstances did the girl w/ the 1280 have that helped her get into Harvard? I've haven't met anyone with that score who got in before.</p>
<p>She was afircan american, poor, worked to pay her HS tuition, appeared to work VERY hard, inner cityy ...and???</p>
<p>okat this has been bugging me......... isn't URM an oxymoron?? Underrepresented ....minority.....? A minority is underrepresented....ahaha...is not this odd.............ahem.....back to CaliforniaCutie's story...1280</p>
<p>How is URM an oxymoron? If anything, it's just redundant.</p>
<p>But remeber there is only one CaliforniaCutie. The reason why is that most URMs are nowadays, wealthy upper middle class with parents who have stable situations. This damn near negates an URMs benefits.</p>
<p>So basically unless your poor and struggling through life. Focus on School and get comparable grades and test scores. You might have a little more leeway, for example an identical asian candidate might need a 2280 to make it, as an URM you can passby witha 2200. Thats pretty much the major difference. </p>
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<p>wow_98, you've been making wayyyy too many of these posts. So many that you lead me to think that maybe you believe that the standards used to judge you are significantly different from the standards used to judge anyone else. That perhaps rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to you.</p>
<p>Well, I have news for you. When you are a stack of paper in a folder, one checkbox alone isn't going to make you look different from all of the other folders in the stack.</p>
<p>Disagree with AP Freak for the reasons Akai stated. Disagree with Drawingdot because I feel that checking that box on the application will make a world of a difference. At Princeton University, it was found that being an African American was equivalent of adding 200 points on one's SAT I (the old one) and being Hispanic was equivalent of adding 150 points. A professor made similar findings with athletes. If the majority of applicants are rich and minorities, obviously checking that box makes a world of a difference.</p>
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If the majority of applicants are rich and minorities, obviously checking that box makes a world of a difference.
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Er... huh?</p>
<p>Okay... rephrasal. What makes you look different from all of the other students in the pile, other than minority status? Obviously Princeton can't accept all of them, any more than it can accept all of any other group.</p>