**Official Princeton Class of 2013 Decisions Thread**

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 760
[</em>] SAT Math: 770
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2330
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math 2 760 US History 750 Chemistry
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable): Nay
[<em>] ACT (if applicable): Nay
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: This year: AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP Euro Hist, AP English Lang, AP English Lit. Last year: AP French Lang (5), AP US History (5), AP Macroeconomics (4), AP Microeconomics (4)
[<em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 103.3 – 4.0
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 96.2 – 3.91
[<em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1 out of 770
[</em>] Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist, Presidential Scholars Candidate, AP Scholar with Distinction, Xerox Award, Junior Achievement Titan Business Competition State Champ, Tri-State Math League Top 3 Award</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I like my essays a lot. Main commonapp one about professional wrestling, another about family heritage, and a third about my research interests and where I want to take them.
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Two research mentor recommendation letters from MIT Nuclear Engineering and Harvard SEAS professors. The MIT one was phenomenal. I didn’t read the Harvard one.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I didn’t read it. I assume it was crappy. I go to a massive school, and I barely know her, although we are on really friendly terms and I provided her with ample material for any sort of rec letter.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Research is most definitely my hook.</p>

<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Hampshire
[</em>] School Type: Private (Realistically, it’s public though)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy: Wustl, Harvard Legacy
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Nay…I wish. Anyone wanna hook me up with a ping pong coach? :stuck_out_tongue:
[<em>] Important ECs: Microfluidics summer research internship @ Harvard SEAS, Nuclear Engineering summer research internship @ MIT, Hospital Volunteer, Varsity Math Team Captain, Solo & Orchestral Violin, Granite State Challenge/Quiz Bowl Team, and Greater Manchester Red Cross. On resume: Obama for America volunteer, Community Alliance for Teen Safety Youth Board, and local State rep candidate’s campaign manager.
[</em>] Work experience: Freelance PHP Programmer/Website developer</p>

<p>[/ul]Other Factors: A sweltering degree of awesomeness? I sent in my research abstracts, two mentor recs, a resume, presidential scholars candidate update, etc. Loads of supplementary material for them to judge. I have also self-taught myself around 7 programming languages and am fluent in French, proficient in German.</p>

<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: Waitlisted by Harvard & Accepted by Yale, Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Dartmouth, UChicago, Brown, Cornell, Tufts, BU, and WPI.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Good luck to everybody in college! Any future applicants reading this, feel free to PM me or email me with any questions or for advice.</p>

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<p>haha i know this is really late but i just decided to post it because i’m excited for the new waitlistees who are coming in! yayyy :slight_smile: i am a march 31st acceptee though.
<3 PRINCETON</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2400
[</em>] SAT II: U.S. History 760, Literature 780, Math IIc 800
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.94
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/160
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), AP Microecon (5), AP Macroecon (5), AP European History (5), AP Chinese (5), AP Lang (5), AP Lit, Physics B, Calc BC, Psych (all taken this year)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Chinese A1 SL - took this year
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: APs Lit, Calc BC, Physics B, Psych. IB Chinese A1SL. Choir! yay haha
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): natl merit finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (junior class president, senior class president), church youth group (student leadership team), MUN, choir (a bunch of honor choirs), musicals (lead roles? haha), track & field, NHS, Tri-M music honor society
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: tutoring in English
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Habitat for Humanity trips to Bangladesh and Sichuan, teaching at a migrant school, Roots & Shoots, writing center peer tutoring
[</em>] Summer Activities: volunteering at an orphanage, orphan summer camp in western China, teaching English at Chinese minority school also in western China
[<em>] Essays: one about local Chinese school, which i attended in 8th and 9th grade; the other one was about random stuff that happens to me when i take the elevator every day. :slight_smile: my short answer activity thing was about having to go blonde for the school musical, and about all the silly embarassing things i do for choir/theater, but it’s okay because i love to sing. and then for the summer thing i just recounted the volunteering & trips i did in the summers and threw in a story about an awkward wedding i had to be a bridesmaid at.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: my english & history teachers… both of whom i LOVE <3
[<em>] Counselor Rec: my counselor is a total noob
[</em>] Additional Rec: none
[<em>] Interview: it was okay. my interviewer was not that interesting haha… sadly… but that’s okay because princeton itself is amazing <3
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[<em>] Intended Major: history? english? woodrow wilson? don’t know
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): N/A
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): china, but i’m a u.s. citizen
[</em>] School Type: international school
[<em>] Ethnicity: taiwanese
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: uh… we didn’t get finaid
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): n/a
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: i enjoy life? haha
[</em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: i just tried to be genuine.
[<em>] Weaknesses: i am not a genius or super amazing at anything.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: God loves me
[*] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ACCEPTED: UC davis, ucsd, ucla, uc berkeley, claremont mckenna, pomona. WAITLISTED: penn, brown. REJECTED: yale, stanford.[/ul]</p>

103

<p>I guess I should fill this out, for all of next years seniors at least:</p>

<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (800CR 720MT 760WR)
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 770 World History; 760 French; 740 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9; 99/100
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Salutatorian out of a class of 108
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language(5); US History(5);French(3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs, creative writing
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Editor in Chief of a fashion mag I created at my school, head of the office of community outreach, tons of theatre, etc…
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: lifeguard at an inner-city pool for 3 years
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: see extracurriculars
[<em>] Summer Activities: working
[</em>] Essays: Excellent, as far as I can tell. Everyone who read them loved them
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Also excellent. At graduation, I received the top awards for the subjects they teach.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also excellent. She loves me
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: Rather boring. The interviewer just wanted to talk about her times at Princeton instead of actually interviewing me. She was nice, but she… well… didn’t seem very bright…
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Sociology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Upstate NY
[</em>] School Type: small private
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Income Bracket: middle class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, really.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Creativity, essays, recs.
[</em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: That I was creative, that I could bring a lot to the university.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Having a crappy interviewer. Not as many APs as students who go to other schools. (We’re not allowed to take them until junior year).
[</em>] Why you think you were rejected: No idea. I could blame it on the fact that a girl from my class had already been accepted for athletics, and more than one person rarely gets accepted to an Ivy in the same class, but that’s just making excuses. In the end, I’m just going to laugh at Princeton. They made the wrong decision; it was nothing I did. And they’ll end up paying for it, too. If they ever want me to teach as a professor or speak, I will flatly reject their offer :wink:
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m going to Fordham University under a full scholarship in the Honors program. I was accepted into Georgetown, UChicago, Wesleyan, and BC, but we couldn’t afford any of them. We didn’t get financial aid because the school counted my parents retirement savings in their calculations. If I went to these schools, my parents would have to put off their retirement. (We’re basically in that weird, middle-class realm that’s too well-off for financial aid and too poor to afford college. The only schools that give financial aid to this group is the Ivy Leagues. I was rejected from Brown as well, so my hopes for a good, intellectual school were squandered.)</p>[/li]
<p>So now I’m hoping to score a better degree at graduate school. Instead of going for the messed-up, elitist Ivies or expensive US schools, I’m going to try some foreign schools that only cost a few thousand per semester. In my opinion, they’ll give me an advantage over those who did go to an Ivy league school as an undergraduate, because I’ll have a more interesting life experience. :slight_smile: [/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: REJECTED! WHAT THE EEEFFF</p>

<p>Objective:[list]
[<em>] SAT I 800 CR, 780M, 790R
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II: Math II=800, Lit=800, Physics=780
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.3
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/859
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Six 5’s by the end of junior year.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Composition, AP Econ, AP Stats, AP Psych, AP Computer Programming, Independent Study Philosophy
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):National Merit Finalist, National Achievement, National Latin Gold Medalist, a LOT of squash awards</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): I am ranked in the top 10 in the nation for squash. Represented the United States overseas. Student Body President. NHS President. Best Buddies President. Squash Captain.<br>
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: I teach squash to underprivileged youth.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Teaching/ Playing squash. Also took community college courses.
[<em>] Essays: About finding sponsors to pay for my squash when I was 8 and my family could not afford it. Best I have ever written.<br>
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Superb
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Glowing
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[li] Interview:It was fun!</p>[/li]
<p>Other[list]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: “Elite” east coast boarding school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Black
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$20,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):First generation. Low income? URM. HEAVILY recruited athlete!</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: Test scores, grades,…
[</em>] Weaknesses: I haven’t cured cancer (yet)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:I don’t know, but I’m so *</em>**ed right now. I was even sent a likely letter!</p>

<p>**General Comments: ■■■</p>

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<p>just kidding. but i wish that were me…</p>

106

<p>^^^ don’t do that. that scared me. i was thinking aw poor boy. lol.</p>

107

<p>^^^OMG he scared me too!
Congratulations to everyone who got in, and I hope to join you next year!</p>