<p>aww poor greco...it's okay to be mad, i'd be offing people right now if i lived in nj and didn't have the letter. i'm about to make headlines as it is: GIRL DIES FROM ANTICIPATION</p>
<p>Maybe the mail truck crashed and burst into flames, incinerating all the letters. Haha.</p>
<p>I still dreamin' in California...</p>
<p>omg...that reminds me of my AP scores. The AP workers went on strike and the truck with my scores was left on the side of the road until sometime in early September, when the scores of my whole high school class were finally located. sorry i know this board is supposed to be just results, but that story was too good to let go. lol</p>
<p>*Decision: Accepted! *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2390 (800 CR, 790 M, 800 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 W, 790 Lit, 770 US, 800 IIC
[<em>] GPA: 4.09 (Weighted, a 4.00 is an A)
[</em>] Rank: No rank - second decile (20%) in class of 66
[<em>] Other stats: APs - Calc AB 5, English Lit 5, Spanish 5, US History 5
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were really good, unique, but so does everyone...
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good, balanced, both teachers I know well, both knew me from outside of classroom as well
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Nothing special...new guidance counselor, only knew me for a month before she had to write recs...
[<em>] ECs: A ton....President of class, tutor for special needs kids for five years in big job, internship for neurosurgery in the city, governor's school of NJ, Merit Semifinalist, Ed. of Newspaper, Mock Trial...a lot...
[</em>] Hook (if any): Nope...unique essays, unique ECs, well balanced - good old fashioned way...
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Jersey
[</em>] School Type: Private/Parochial
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors: All mentioned...
General Comments: I'm very very excited and surprised....congratz to all in and to the deffers, keep your hopes up, just relax, everything that happens happens with this college stuff for a reason, and everyone I know ends up happy (most of whom wanted to go Ivy and didn't). I can't believe another white boy from NJ got in...oh well.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2340 (800M, 740CR, 800W)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math 2c, 800 Physics, 760 US Hist, 760 Bio M
[</em>] ACT: -
[<em>] APs: All 5's on- Calc BC, Calc AB, Physics B, Comp Sci AB, Biology, Eng. Lang, Statistics, Gov + Pol US, Gov + Pol Comp., US History (10 in total)
[</em>] IBs:-
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: Weighted = 4.404, Unweighted = ?
[</em>] Rank: School doesn't rank, but estimate ~8/300
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: most rigorous possible, plus indep. study Multivariable Calc w/EPGY
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 5
[<em>] Other stats: went to Gov School for engineering
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Captain of State Champion Quiz Bowl team, President of Science + Tech Club (goes to NJ Science Olympiad), Captain of Science Bowl, VP of Model UN Club, fencing team, volunteering at Liberty Science Center, other minor clubs/volunteering
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: tutoring, worked at an eBay drop center for a summer
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): 1 about fascination with outer space, one about physics teacher, one about Atlas Shrugged. All were pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location):it went very well, at Overlook Hospital
[</em>] Hook (if any): National AP Scholar (Massive Quantities of 5's on AP tests), won an international physics competition (as a team)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NJ
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): extremely competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Hooks: see above
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses:strong EC's, AP's, and competitions/tests in general, weak volunteering, jobs
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: applied for BSE, and had basically all the necessary qualifications
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to all who were accepted ED, and don't give up if you were deferred. I used the actual Prineton app, not common app, as my g.c. told me they view it more favorably than the common app.</p>
<p>there goes my chance! i HIGHLY doubt i will get in princeton, maybe i will get deferred.</p>
<p>For the last damn time. It's DEFER not DEFFER. You get DEFERRED not DEFFERRED. Just to clear that one up</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got accepted. My thoughts to those who didn't. I scared to death now. If I don't die from anticipation I don't know what is wrong... I hope PA isn't as competative as NJ.</p>
<p>haha i love it when the best and the brightest spell "defer" wrong...; ) congrats to everyone!!!!</p>
<p>Greco: Don't worry about it. I had to wait two days to get my letter, and another student on my block had already recieved his. I was in a state of panic. Sometimes, good things really do come to those who wait!</p>
<p>Congrats to all the acceptees! Maybe you guys should start a thread on the class of 2010 forum?</p>
<p>applying from NJ is the worst because there are SO many applicants...I'm from CT...probably pretty bad as well...</p>
<p>Yeh, the whole Boswash area is nothing but a mass of hopeful Princetonians. I hope that the competition isn't as bad in my neck of the woods. But, that does't help me too much anyway. I'm scared to death, ah!</p>
<p>guess what i'm from NJ, and guess what...nothing in the mail today....i don't get it......:(</p>
<p>Yea. After seeing the stats of all those who have been accepted I have fallen in love with my other top choice in Pomona College.....You guys have fun at Princeton...Tommorow, My deferal letter arrives.</p>
<p>Yeh, it is kinda odd. I'm certain you'll get it tomorrow. And next time you see your mailman you can have a little chat...</p>
<p>Congratulations to all you lucky acceptees, you lucky bastards you ;)
But seriously, to have received any decision right now is better than what I have done. I noticed pimom had an interesting clarification: she used the Princeton application, not the Common App. To make this thread more useful for the next crop of applicants, perhaps we should include that as one of the factors, changing the format to this:</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=CD6600][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Fee Waiver Used?:
[ *] SAT I (by section):
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] ACT:
[ *] APs:
[ *] IBs:
[ *] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Senior Yr Courseload:
[ *] Number of Apps from Your School:
[ *] Common or Princeton App?
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app:
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Essays (subject and responses):
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Interview (feel and general location):
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Hooks:
[ *] Strengths/Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b]</p>
<p>(courtesy welwelwel and, i'm sure, many others)</p>
<p>Accepted
[ul]
[<em>]welwelwel
[</em>]rayyy
[<em>]Shu_Hutchinson
[</em>]glinda
[<em>]DowJones
[</em>]CautiousPessimism
[<em>]herzberp
[</em>]pimom314[/ul]
Deferred
[ul]
[<em>]tanis
[</em>]kristian<em>rj
[<em>]Gautambhatia
[</em>]persona
[<em>]firstsearch90
[</em>]stevefis
[<em>]birdman23
[</em>]omgplease
[li]bill</em>smear[/ul][/li]Rejected
[ul]
[*]callthecops2[/ul]</p>
<p>wow...sorry people but i wish i had my letter right now....LIKE EVERY OTHER ED APPLICANT IN NJ</p>
<p>stop spamming this thread, make it clean and pretty! i want to see how Princeton did without going through 40 pages</p>