<p>Congrats to all those accepted. Hopefully, those of us applying RD (including me :) ) will see you all next year!</p>
<p>Continued Good Luck to those Pton EDers who haven't heard yet!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: no
[</em>] SAT I (by section): M-730 CR-740 W-680 (one sitting)
[<em>] SAT IIs: Bio-770 Lit.-730 Math I-710 Math II-650
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] APs: Bio-5 Calc AB-4
[</em>] IBs:
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: W-4.18 UW-3.95
[</em>] Rank: top ten/800
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP English, AP Spanish 5, AP Stat., AP Physics B, AP Government
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1
[<em>] Common or Princeton App? Princeton, online
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Ballet, the usual (honors societies, community service), NHS Biology lecture/discussion series 2004
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Teaching at the ballet studio
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Ballet, my mom, clouds at the beach (with a link to photographs I took)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: amazing
[<em>] Counselor Rec: amazing
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): ran 1 hr over, at a local coffee shop
[<em>] Hook (if any): ballet, did on campus audition/talked to director
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: northern VA
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): LARGE public, 20% middle class and high achieving, rest lower class, very diverse
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses:
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:[/li][/ul]Other Factors: alumni/neighbor rec. absolutely wonderful, grandfather alumn
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: i really don't believe it! :D OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>defer :-/</p>
<p>Deferred. Gives me a chance to send in high senior grades.</p>
<p>Hope things work out for the best.</p>
<p>For those who were accepted, would you please measure the length and width of you envelope (in inches) and tell me right here at CC?</p>
<p>Still haven't gotton my yet, but I hope to know the size of the acceptance letter; please share this information with me.</p>
<p>Darn it.. didn't get anything today. So we can call tomorrow, is that the word?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 720cr, 780m, 800w (2300 total)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 790/780/600
[</em>] ACT:-
[<em>] APs: US History-5
[</em>] IBs:-
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 98% uw, 104% w
[</em>] Rank: 1/175
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Hardest possible
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1 (I'm the only one in the county)
[<em>] Other stats: National Merit Commended
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: lots of music stuff for trumpet and piano, editor of yearbook, president of service group, etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: -
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): I think they're what got me in
[<em>] Teacher Recs: 1 amazing, 1 pretty good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: couldn't have asked for better
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location): went really well
[</em>] Hook (if any): not really, other than my small, underrepresented high school
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Really small, and not competitive at all, only 4 AP's offered, less than half go to four year schools
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Income Bracket: Above average
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks: nothing
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: Strengths: essays, grades, rec's, SAT I's. Weaknesses: EC's and my third SAT Subject test (i'm in shock)
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I'm not trying to act humble, but I honestly have no clue
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I'm in shock. If anyone had told me this morning that today would be the day I get accpeted to Princeton University, I would have never beleived them.</p>
<p>**Decision: [deferred]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2240/760cr, 760m, 720w, 11 essay
[</em>] SAT IIs: math iic 710, lit 630, chem 600
[<em>] GPA: 4.0uw/4.83w
[</em>] Rank: 1/750
[<em>] Other stats: Full IB courses, Calc 2, valedictorian, science nhs pres, science club pres, latin club vp helped raise 5k for charity, ib student council rep, 4 years cross country, 4 years track, 3rd at chesapeake bay team robotics comp. drama productions, ap eng 4 (self study), ap euro 4, ib math methods sl 5, ib chem sl 4, quizbowl
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: horrible, one teacher thinks a rec to a state school will work for pton
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[<em>] Hook (if any): no one from my school has attended an ivy league school in over 5 years (upenn), before that was 12 years ago (harvard)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Florida
[<em>] School Type: bad public, no math team, no debate team, robotics club dissolved
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian (chinese)
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: low low sat iis, bad bad sat iis, no distinctive ECs
General Comments: used common application, only one from my school applying ED</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I: 2kish, 11 Essay
[<em>] SAT IIs: BioE-660; USHist-710; German w/Listening 500 (Something went terribly wrong)
[</em>] ACT: Did not take.
[<em>] APs: APUSH, AP Euro, AP Stat, AP German, AP Bio, AP U.S. Gov't. (6)
[</em>] IBs: Not offered at my school.
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.8, and About a 4.4
[</em>] Rank: Not offered at my school.
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: APEuro, AP German, APBio, Highlights of English Lit/The Irish, Econ/Astro2.
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 13ish?
[<em>] Common or Princeton App? Princeton Paper App.
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Wrestling, Founder of Young Republicans, President of German Club, Boy Scouts
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked as Boy Scout Camp Counselor for Three Years.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Well, my teacher who edited them seemed to like them, but not sure what that means.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Unknown.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Unknown.
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): It was at the home thereof, and went smoothly.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Poor, and First-gen College
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Western PA
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Best Public in state, 6th counting private schools.
[</em>] Ethnicity: English-Hungarian
[<em>]Religion: Protestant
[</em>] Income Bracket: Low
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Strengths: Apparently they didn't show through.
[<em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores... yeh... look at them. But why wasn't I rejected?
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I'm quite suprised I wasn't straight up rejected. My scores are abyssmal. I kinda wish I was, so that I could move on. But, my entire school has been hit very hard. All three of our Harvard Hopefuls were deferred. Two of them actually had perfect SAT scores! Three were rejected straight up from UPenn. No one got in to UPenn. Not even a legacy with his own net worth! I thought he would at least make it as a developmental candidate. Only one got into Columbia and one into Dartmouth out of about 10. And yes, only one won the Brown lottery that I know of. I am not sure of the other Princetonians, but 5 of us applied. And I'm a deferral. Bah, I'll just go off to Cornell or Duke now. I wasn't coutning on Pton. It is a reach, and my chances are even lower now in the RD pool, so I'll just let this dream die.
[/ul]</p>
<p>Sigh, if princeton had sent the letter to my school instead of my home in China, i would have received the decision today. well, i will just have to wait to check the decision email tomorrow.</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 740CR 710M 760W
SAT IIs: 700Chem, 700MathIIc, 750Physics, 710US, 740BioM
GPA: 3.75UW
Rank: n/a
Other stats: 5 on AP Physics B, 5 on US, 3 on Euro</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: pretty good i thought
Teacher Recs: one of them should have been good, the other i'm not sure about
Counselor Rec: also good
Hook (if any):yeah, none</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: USA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: asian
Gender: male
Other Factors:[ /b]
General Comments:i wanted to get in, but what can you do. congrats everybody who did. peace up.</p>
<p>*Accepted: *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 800v 730m 720w
[<em>] SAT IIs: Writing 790, Lit 780, US History 770, Math IIc 760
[</em>] ACT:n/a
[<em>] APs: US History 5, Calc AB 5, Physics C (mech) 5, English Lang. 5
[</em>] IBs: n/a
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.96 uw, no w
[</em>] Rank: n/a
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP Gov and Politics, AP Lit, AP French, AP Bio, AP Calc BC, Orchestra
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 2
[li] Other stats: National Merit Semifinalist</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Model UN, Interact, NHS, Key Club, Lacrosse, Orchestra, Community Service Stuff
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Local Library
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Wrote one about my uncle, one about ethics and society, and one about service, i thought they were ok
[</em>] Teacher Recs: great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: great
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): great, long talk about politics and france, in his home, loud kids running around
[li] Hook (if any): Legacy</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CT
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, very competitive 98% to 4 year colleges
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks: Legacy
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: I think i was pretty strong overall, i was worried about ec's a little
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I think i was a strong candidate overall
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: i am really happy !!!!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* Fee Waiver Used?: no
* SAT I (by section): M-780 CR-620 W-680
* SAT IIs: Bio-670 Math I-670 Math II-690
* IBs: 6- IB Math Studies
* GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: W-4.18 UW-3.95
* Rank: does not rank
* Senior Yr Courseload: AP calc, IB history hl, ib english hl, ib biology hl
* Number of Apps from Your School: 1
* Common or Princeton App? Princeton, online
* Other stats:
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: NHS member, student gov't 3 years, heavily involved in community service, captain of basketball and softball team
* Essays (subject and responses): on my grandpa, woodrow wilson, involvement in service
* Teacher Recs: good
* Counselor Rec: good
* Interview (feel and general location): good
* Hook (if any): softball recruit
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: pittsburgh pa
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): small private catholic academy w ib program
* Ethnicity: white
* Gender: F
* Strengths/Weaknesses:
* Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: :-)</p>
<p>Well, at least someone from Pittsburgh got in? Catholic Central?</p>
<p>omg jmarsh2006 you give me soo much hope....my credentials are very similar to yours--I just hope I get the same decision next year (I'm a junior).</p>
<p>Congrats again to everyone accepted!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: old version: 800V, 760M
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 writing, 790 math IIC, 780 us history
[<em>] GPA: 4.20 (4.3 is an A+)
[</em>] Rank: school doesn't rank
[li] Other stats: APs: 5 world history, 5 english lang, 4 us history (shrug), 7AP courses senior year[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: not my most brilliantly crafted writing, but i talked about some cool experiences (getting interviewed on jamaican TV at a protest in NYC, playing the oboe at carnegie hall, etc)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: two i imagine were really good, and one from my principal (he's not a genius, but he likes me a lot)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: again, haven't seen it, but there's no reason why it shouldn't have been awesome
[</em>] Hook (if any): a few...: international-level oboist (a long list of accomplishments/groups... a co-principal at Tanglewood last summer, studied with the best in the world, etc) i auditioned for the Princeton Orchestra conductor in september and he seemed impressed; editor-in-chief of one of the only weekly extracurricular high school newspapers in the country-- we've won some national awards; founder/president of a really successful Amnesty International chapter at my high school
[li] Major ECs: see hooks^ i don't really do much else besides those 3 things[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: upstate ny
[</em>] School Type: highly competitve suburban public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Degree(AB/BSE): AB
[</em>] major strength/weakness: oboe is a major strength, as is the editor-in-chief (i visited the Princetonian and they were really impressed with my paper... though they don't get to make admissions decisions). the main negative i always worried about was the fact that i only really have three ECs... i just put an insane amount of time into all of them
Other Factors: i have an older sister at harvard... i dunno if that would make a difference at all, but maybe. i also never took the new sat, even though it was recommended-- i figured my old scores plus writing were fine.</p>
<p>[li] Why do you think you got deferred/admitted: cuz i'm 6 foot 4 and can dunk a basketball... that plus general beastliness[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* Fee Waiver Used?: no
* SAT I (by section): M-800 CR-800 W-710 (one sitting)
* SAT IIs: Bio-760 Chem-750 Physics-780 Latin-800
* ACT: n/a
* APs: Bio, Stats, Calc AB, Eng Lit, World Hist, Physics C (both), Chem, Latin Lit: all 5s
* IBs: n/a
* GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 99.9 on 100-point scale (grumble they refuse to round)
* Rank: 1/70
* Senior Yr Courseload: AP Gov, AP Spanish, AP Latin Virgil, AP Eng Lang, AP EuroHist, AP Enviro
* Number of Apps from Your School: 1
* Common or Princeton App? Princeton, online
* Other stats: 2370 on PSATs
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: Peer Tutoring, Quiz Bowl, Graphic Novels, Poetry/Writing (School Magazine, a few publications), Piano/Band (couple of awards there, but it's been some time)
* Job/Work Experience: violin shop (basic accounting)
* Essays (subject and responses): my mom, spider webs, piano (not very original, but not bad)
* Teacher Recs: decent; some of my teachers aren't exactly the most talkative. One of 'em should be fairly amazing, but they all like me.
* Counselor Rec: incredible. She's my Eng Lang independent study teacher this year, and she thinks I'm a brilliant writer lol
* Interview (feel and general location): not bad, but not great. At his home. Showed him a graphic novel/manga page I was working on, and our magazine and he really liked them.
* Hook (if any): seriously, I had NONE. I was out for some of my junior year in the hospital (and almost missed my APs, yikes!), and never had the opportunity to try competitions or really majorly commit in awards or research... I'm definitely going to change that in the next four years. happy smile
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: southeastern VA (Hampton Roads)
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): very very tiny private school...the average SATs are slightly higher than public, but we haven't had any HYPS for a long time.
* Ethnicity: Asian BIG GRIN I can't believe I squeezed out other Asians! (Sorry sorry if you are)
* Gender: F
* Strengths/Weaknesses: I skipped two grades, and I improve quickly (and forget even faster, hehe). I turned sixteen two months ago.
* Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Prolly my counselor's rec. I've heard it was absolutely crazily amazing.
I'm also very dedicated to graphic novels/manga, and I want to eventually publish my own series or magazine...so I suppose they found that interesting/amusing/unique? Can't wait to take over Princeton's Anime/Manga club.
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors: Princeton Book Club award? Gov School? Girl whose record shows strong math and science abilities, but does quite well in classics, and loves the humanities and arts above all? Perhaps their writing department is rather weak too, or they just wanted an American graphic novelist. (I mean, Chinese pianists aren't exactly scarce or in high demand at Ivies....)</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fee Waiver Used?: Yes</li>
<li>SAT I (by section): M-610 CR-800 W-800</li>
<li>SAT IIs: Bio M- 720 US History- 800 Literature 760 World History 800</li>
<li>APs: 5s on US and Bio, all my school offered</li>
<li>GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: UW- 4.0</li>
<li>Rank: 9/105</li>
<li>Senior Yr Courseload: AP Euro, AP English Lit, AP Economics, SUNY Albany Spanish (AP not offered), Pre-Calc, studying AP US Government/Politics and AP World History independently</li>
<li>Number of Apps from Your School: Only one</li>
<li>Common or Princeton App? Princeton, online</li>
<li>Other stats: </li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>ECs listed on app: Student body president, distinguished in academic trivia, Sports Editor for school newspaper, varsity golf, theatre, JV soccer, NHS, DECA</li>
<li>Essays (subject and responses): Socialism and economic inequality, Gore Vidal and environment vs genetics as it correlated to my sister's anorexia- received tremendous feedback
*Teacher Recs: mangificent</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: outstanding</li>
<li>Interview (feel and general location): Not bad</li>
<li>Hook (if any): From Appalachia</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Wellsville, NY</li>
<li>School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): PoS public school</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Strengths/Weaknesses: Academic interest/Class rank</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Class rank</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congratulations to all accepted and best of luck to those waiting.</p>
<p>Princeton2B: the envelope for acceptances was about 13" x 10.5".</p>