<p>my kid is accepted at MIT, as of Dec 20 2008. - evidently as a "top pick" of early action apps, according to a phone call she received immediately from ther admissions dept the minute the results were put online. ACT 35, SAT 2360. former natl champion cyclist. other EC's in government activities at the state natl level. interests and more normal awards in music. letters of reference from teachers generally calling her the student of a career. background is from a very small town in the midwest public school where she essentially made her own advanced AP placement program as she went along - not a magnet or prep school by any measure. </p>
<p>is there any general rule of thumb on such a student also be accepted at princeton, given the above ??</p>
<p>please forgive any breach of protocol i may have made here. i am not versed in these matters. i asked a questione, and attempted to concisely define the parameters surronding that question. i am not attempting to be as a##. </p>
<p>not that i expect it, but if you have a constructive comment on how my question might better be asked, please offer a hint. </p>
<p>or, perhaps asking at all makes me an a##, in which case thanx for advising me on the nature of this seemingly help-minded internet board.</p>
<p>bitti1, I went to go see the other post to which you were referring to, and I agree, there is no place on these forums for name-calling, it's a childish waste of space. That being said, in response to your demand for constructive criticism, I must say that I partly understand the poster's frustration. From the overt attempt at trying to sound polite (it really sounds like you're trying too hard in your other post, and at the end of this one, sorry) to the way in which you refer to your daughter's achievements (which are fantastic, you should be proud of her), your post basically has no point to it. To many CC posters (like me), it appears to be a post by another success-crazed parent that really only wants to brag about their child's achievements. Think about the question you asked: you could have made it much shorter, simply mentioning that you weren't sure whether it was a smart decision to mention acceptance at MIT in a princeton interview, but instead it rambled on and on about personal achievements that were not related to the question. And even then, so she mentioned it in the interview. So what? You can't do it over, you know her stats are amazing, and she's already been admitted at MIT. She has the same chance as the rest of us. There are way, WAY too many parents on CC who's posts seem to reveal that they have become obsessed with their child's applications to the ivy league, even beyond their children's level of interest in some cases, and that their entire lives at the moment seem unhealthily centered around the topic. I don't want to sound accusatory, I haven't read any other posts of yours, but that's the impression it gives off, and that's why you got a negative reaction.</p>
<p>thank you for that constructive commentary. i see your point. however, in reading post after post on this board, i see listing after listing scores, acheivements, items which set kids apart, and the need for same. nobody else had their child called a prick for mentioning them. in many many posts, people will be asked for a listing of them, and so i provided them up front as a backgound. </p>
<p>i suppose i was asking 2 questions. </p>
<p>the first you sum up nicely. i will disagree with you that is no point to it, since a forum like this exists to address such topics. of course it is over with now, but it remains a valid question if for no other reason than to possibly help somebody else. </p>
<p>as to the second issue ( impressions and suppositions about my own character as a hyper-parent aside - which has no bearing in any case and as an aside could not be more wrong ). the question is:</p>
<p>to what percentage do MIT aceptees also receive p-ton acceptance ?? they are different schools, with different focuses, but there must be some correlation. this is from my daughter, not me. it seems a reasonable question to me to ask, and indeed i really did think this sort of question is what this forum was about. </p>
<p>finally, i have never posted here before. obviously i have violated some unwritten protocol. i thought i had pertinant questions, and was in line with the bulk of other posts i observed. every forum has unwritten rules of decorum, but many of those forums do manage to be a bit more accomodating to newcomers who do not know them. jeez.</p>