Official Princeton Rd Decisions

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<p>Princeton RD Decisions</p>

<p>Well, so that we avoid the travesty that we saw on the Yale board, in which they posted their decisions in Harvard colors, I thought I'd start the Princeton RD decisions thread a day early--with the right color. People should start hearing on the 1st and the results will spread west through the mail in about 2 days, if the ED results are any predictor.</p>

<p>So, when you find out your decision, copy and paste the code below into a new box, fill in the fields, and *delete all spaces immediately following each left bracket ( [ ). * If you don't remove these spaces, it won't show up correctly. Also, try to limit the non-result posting.</p>

<p>GOOD LUCK!</p>

<p>The format is as follows:</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision: ___________[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] GPA:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>

<p>and it should look like:</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1600
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800/800/800
[<em>] GPA: 4.89
[</em>] Rank: 1/700
[<em>] Other stats: 240 PSAT, 36 ACT, perfect AMC, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Soon to be published in a little anthology of my more profound works
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I actually taught most of my classes, so some of my colleagues over at the genetics lab wrote my recs...
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Added three columns to the right of "one of the top few in my career", placing me in the "holy crap" column.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Carnegie hall solo debut at age of 3 on the accordion, mayor of my city, featured in a NYC art gallery, wrote a series of bestselling self-help books endorsed by Oprah's Book Club
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Alaska
[<em>] School Type: Urban Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Albino Northern Inuit (very rare)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Only took 5 APs in school (all that my school offered), but made up for that with 13 more self-studied (5's on all). Math olympian status might have helped.
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I really can't figure it out... Anybody?[/li] [/ul]Other Factors: Who knows?</p>

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<p>Oh, and once again, GOOD LUCK!!!</p>

<p>If you're accepted, feel free to join the Princeton '09 Xanga blogring:
<a href="http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=770355%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=770355&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Or Livejournal:
<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/princeton09/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.livejournal.com/community/princeton09/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And Yahoo Group:
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/princetonclassof2009/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/princetonclassof2009/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And post any questions that you might have in the Yahoo Group message board!</p>

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<p>Oh, and once again, GOOD LUCK!!!</p>

<p>Here are a few useful links:</p>

<p>Princeton '09 Xanga blogring:
<a href="http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=770355%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=770355&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Princeton '09 Livejournal:
<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/princeton09/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.livejournal.com/community/princeton09/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Princeton '09 Yahoo Group:
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/princetonclassof2009/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/princetonclassof2009/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And post any questions that you might have in the Yahoo Group message board!</p>

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<p>I think you're having some serious problems with your computer. First a double thread, and now a double post. :)</p>

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<p>Haha. Christopher has become what I was right after I got in with all the encouragement and link coordination. Good job, man.</p>

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<p>haha yep, when i saw this thread tho i thought maybe ppl living close to princeton had gotten responses already and i started to get all excited. well we'll only hafta wait till like tomorrow ne ways.</p>

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<p>people in socal should get them next week</p>

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<p>Join the Princeton MySpace Group as well, if you're accepted.
<a href="http://groups.myspace.com/princetonpride%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://groups.myspace.com/princetonpride&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b]
[ list]
[ *] SAT: 750 M / 740 V
[ *] SAT IIs:780 MIIC, 760 Writing, 740 Physics
[ *] GPA: 4.55 W
[ *] Rank: 1/180
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b]
[ list]
[ *] Essays: I wrote one about my eraser, another one on playing in the Princeton Wind Ensemble, and a very personal one.
[ *] Teacher Recs: One was very good, the other one was okay. I only got to see the attached letters, not the chart.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Probably okay.
[ *] Hook (if any): I played in the Princeton Wind Ensemble?
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b]
[ list]
[ *] State or Country: NJ
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness: I had a lot of extracurriculars and leadership roles. I got a recommendation from my band conductor, who is also the Princeton University Wind Ensemble conductor. The recommendation was on Princeton stationary and had the Princeton watermark. I'm also going into engineering, so it helps to be a girl. My weakness would probably be my SAT score and my not so great interview.
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Wow, I don't know, but I'm so happy! :)
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]If you want a whole list of all my extracurriculars and such, I posted it on the MIT roster.</p>

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<p>Congratulations!!! </p>

<p>I'm going to assume I've been rejected: acceptances arrived in NYC the next day during ED.... it's ED all over again...</p>

<p>And you need to delete all the spaces within the brackets for it to work.</p>

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<p>Thanks :) The edit option seems to have disappeared, so I will post my stats over again.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 750 M / 740 V
[</em>] SAT IIs:780 MIIC, 760 Writing, 740 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 4.55 W
[</em>] Rank: 1/180
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I wrote one about my eraser, another one on playing in the Princeton Wind Ensemble, and a very personal one.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One was very good, the other one was okay. I only got to see the attached letters, not the chart.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably okay.
[<em>] Hook (if any): I played in the Princeton Wind Ensemble?
[/ul]Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NJ
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] major strength/weakness: I had a lot of extracurriculars and leadership roles. I got a recommendation from my band conductor, who is also the Princeton University Wind Ensemble conductor. The recommendation was on Princeton stationary and had the Princeton watermark. I'm also going into engineering, so it helps to be a girl. My weakness would probably be my SAT score and my not so great interview.
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Wow, I don't know, but I'm so happy! My good friend got accepted early so I didn't think I had a chance.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: If you want a whole list of all my extracurriculars and such, I posted it on the MIT roster. Now I have to make a big decision...</p>

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<p>are acceptances in the regular mail or are they fedexed?</p>

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<p>Mine came with the mail. It was mailed priority. Good luck to all of you guys--I'm rooting for you!</p>

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<p>What day is the postmark wrdstomakeup?</p>

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<p>March 31st</p>

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<p>oh, and my good friend that got in early was from my school, and I didn't think that Princeton would take more than one person. Princeton usually doesn't even take one from my school.</p>

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<p>Princeton has probably never heard of my school.</p>

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<p>I'm sure Princeton has never heard of my school.</p>

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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1450 (780M, 670V)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740, 740, 750
[<em>] GPA: 4.5612
[</em>] Rank: Top 5% of ~450
[<em>] Other stats: Scored a 4 on 3 AP tests
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: OK, but I didn't think they were spectacular
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Never read them
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good, considering he barely knew me at the time
[<em>] Hook (if any): Performing Arts Production, submitted supplementary writing materials to professor
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New Jersey
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian/Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: I'm modest
[/ul]Other Factors:
had an interview, legacy</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1310</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800, 650, 600</li>
<li>GPA: 3.89 Unweighted</li>
<li>Rank: 5/450</li>
<li>Other stats: Spanish Honor Society, World Language Honor Society, Vice-President of 5 major ECs in school, Editor-In-Chief of PGNxMedia.com, a site that serves 15,000 people aday</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: I would say good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One said best student ever, one said #4 best student ever</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: really good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): The website; first generation</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Perth Amboy, NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Hispanic</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: lots of involvement and leadership in ecs/SATs would be higher</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: The website shows "business smarts" I guess?</li>
</ul>