<p>And I added UPenn to the list after getting deferred :(</p>
<p>Yeah but the acceptance rate is upped by all the legacies+recruited athletes… so it’s really not as pathetic as it seems !!</p>
<p>Yeah, Ladieth has a point. If there were a lot of legacies and athletes applying they would have had a higher acceptance rate and that is what the Ivies tend to do in the EA/ED rounds. And they did also reject more this year as well, so I dunno. I just keep waffling between whether deferral is good or bad.</p>
<p>I added Rice and Tufts after getting deferred. I was going to do UPenn before, but I replaced that with Columbia instead.</p>
<p>Guys to anyone who might feel invalidated or not good enough because of your deferral: getting deferred means that in the normal application process our apps are definitely not the type of apps they toss over their shoulders and say what the hell was this kid thinking
and for that to happen at PRINCETON?
that’s amazing
it’s such an academically challenging school and they think it’s reasonable for us to have applied? that’s not validation enough? they’re just confused right now and don’t know what their class is going to look like, but if you’re deferred it just means they WANT to consider you again. </p>
<p>I’m kind of relieved I was deferred since the stress of the decision was just a burden on my mental state. I guess it’s also attributed to the fact that my expectations were rather low. I think that if you stay rational and understand that there’s a good chance of deferral or rejections, dealing with such outcomes is a lot easier. You could also put this into perspective: Princeton rejected nearly 4 times as many students as last year, albeit only around 165 students, and accepted 19.9%. We essentially survived a harsher year for rejection (lol) as Princeton also lost applicants, again only a handful, so be proud that you made it this far and one of the world’s best institutions is willing to learn more about you. Also be proud that you applied because the acceptance rate of non-applicants is 0% guaranteed. Anyways, don’t take the decision too personally, it’s not a testament to your worth, and fate will surely have something great planned for all of us!</p>
<p>Ahh I love this thread <3 hope it doesn’t die down.</p>
<p>I was deferred from Princeton and am now in the regular decision pool. Do you think it would be helpful to contact the minority representative for Princeton (I’m black)? Also I am currently in this program called “Increasing the odds” which helps even out the playing fields and in being part of this program, I have worked with inner city kids. This means a lot because my dad and family have come from really rough inner cities and as a black female, I understand how it feels to be prejudged because of my background. I didn’t mention this at all in my application because I felt as though it would be wrong to get an advantage over other applicants for doing something everyone should do out of the goodness of their heart. Looking back, writing a letter to the minority representative about my commitment to this program could really show another side of who I am and what I stand for. Do you think this would increase my chances of being accepted? </p>
<p>I really love how positive you all are. The first thing I did when I found out was write a handwritten letter to the admission office thanking them, telling them about some recent accomplishments, and telling them how much I would love to go to Princeton. Now I’m just gonna sit here in agony for the next 3 1/2 months.</p>
<p>Did anyone else receive an email from Princeton saying that “the admissions committee would like to see your mid-year grades as soon as they are available”, around a day after the deferral? I’m curious as to why they’d ask for one so soon, especially when I’d have been submitting the report anyway for RD.</p>
<p>@hopefulperson - Actually the stats are somewhat misleading. Most likely around 115 legacies were admitted (see the daily Princetonian article <a href=“http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2014/12/19-9-percent-of-applicants-offered-early-admission-to-princeton/”>http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2014/12/19-9-percent-of-applicants-offered-early-admission-to-princeton/</a> ) and probably around 200 athletes (maybe more since varsity athletes comprise nearly 20% of the undergraduate population). If you take those numbers away from the overall stats you have around 452 unhooked admits (maybe less given that there were probably a number of faculty/dignitary’s children admitted in the early round as well). But even if the number is 450 out of 3535 applicants who were unhooked and admitted, it’s around a 7.8% admission rate which is actually quite close to the overall rate. </p>
<p>what @cantiger said is exactly what i’ve been telling myself to calm down… it’s not like i could compete with the recruited athletes, anyway… and if i wasn’t among the top 400-something unhooked applicants (out of many thousands!) it’s not the end of the world – in fact, i’d like to think that they really, truly cannot accept everyone who is qualified, and that’s why we’re deferred. also, i’m not URM or underprivileged, and i understand that it’s fair to give a chance to someone who has had to face difficult circumstances rather than taking a privileged white girl such as myself, ceteris paribus. and finally, hasn’t princeton (and not just princeton – i think this applies to most ivies/ivy-caliber schools) explicitly stated that they receive applications from so many perfectly qualified students that they could fill their entire graduating class several times? there’s a chance that we were just unlucky. deferral should not bring us down, since it’s definitely not a reflection of our worth, but rather a reflection of the near-randomness of the admissions process. </p>
<p>Reposted from the 2019 SCEA Hopefuls thread:</p>
<p>To everyone deferred,</p>
<p>I am a Princeton freshman accepted RD last year, and I wanted to very quickly say a few things.</p>
<p>1) You’re still in the pool! A friend of mine was deferred EA and accepted RD. He had sent the University another rec letter and more materials. Make sure you do this too.</p>
<p>2) You may well be accepted into a comparable school even if Princeton rejects you. The dean of admissions here swears that Princeton doesn’t make mistakes, but that’s just not true. Sometimes, Princeton will reject a candidate whom Harvard and Yale accept. Case in point, my tour guide at Yale had also been accepted at Harvard, but rejected from Princeton. The inverse happens too. A very good friend of mine had an exceptional resume, even for Ivy League schools, but got rejected from H and Y. There’s a random element in admissions, but trust me, you’ll end up loving your school wherever you go.</p>
<p>3) You’ll succeed no matter where you go, even a state university. As a matter of fact, you’ll succeed especially at state school. Another friend of mine says that in her field (pre-med), the bottom third of kids at most universities switch out while the top third overwhelmingly go on to lead very good careers. The ironic part is, those in the bottom third at her school (Yale) would have easily been in the top third at their respective state universities. So, it may all work out for the best.</p>
<p>4) No university’s decision is a measure of your self-worth. Period. You’re all beautiful people with a beautiful future.</p>
<p>Tiger love,
OldNassau</p>
<p>Does anybody what percent Princeton rejected for SCEA this year?</p>
<p>My high school beat Princeton high school in a sports game on Monday. 
The universe makes me smile sometimes.</p>
<p>@santaman1 <a href=“http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2014/12/19-9-percent-of-applicants-offered-early-admission-to-princeton/”>http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2014/12/19-9-percent-of-applicants-offered-early-admission-to-princeton/</a></p>
<p>4.36% were rejected</p>
<p>How underqualified do you have to be do be rejected from Princeton SCEA? I’m not trying to be mean because I was actually rejected from Cornell ED, does anybody know the percent rejected from Cornell ED this year? I couldn’t find the statistics…</p>
<p>I have a question:</p>
<p>I have a close friend who applied early action, and got into, MIT, Georgetown, and UChicago. I am so extremely happy for this person. They truly deserved it, and they got into their top choice early, which was MIT.</p>
<p>Yet, they are still applying to Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, and PRINCETON. </p>
<p>Is it right for me to be a little irked that they get into their top choice, plus two other schools that were near the top of their list, yet they insist on applying to 7 more top schools? After all, you can only go to one school. Don’t you think that one would stop and think, “Gee, I’ve already been admitted to my very top choice school in early action, so maybe I will significantly cut down my list to only schools that I would seriously consider over my top choice?” I feel like them applying to these schools is taking spots away from other highly qualified applicants whose top choice or dream school may be one of the ones this person is applying to just because they can and have a shot.</p>
<p>In my case, I feel like now I have major competition at Princeton in RD round; I highly doubt Princeton would take two kids from my small school. I mean, I love this person dearly and they mean the world to me, and this person has every right in the world to apply to any school they want, but wouldn’t decency suggest that they don’t?</p>
<p>You have to consider it from this person’s perspective. THere is still a chance something might happen with MIT so he will need a “backup” school - I would understand if this person was guaranteed to go to this school but there is no guarantee. Besides the chance that you don’t get into Princeton because this person took away the last spot is really negligible. Think about the other unfair aspects such as freaking URM</p>
<p>@nolasaxman I’m facing the same situation, except it’s not a close friend lol. One very qualified girl has been dreaming of MIT for years and she got in EA and she very much deserves it. She’s applying to Princeton RD even though, and I quote directly, “[she wouldn’t go to]…not even Princeton over MIT” and “I don’t even like Princeton”. I don’t like her for many other reasons but this just intensifies my dislike tenfold. She knows very well that Princeton is my dream school and I have good evidence that she’s applying against me out of jealousy (I’m ranked higher than she is and that one-sidedly destroyed our friendship junior year.) If I’d gotten in to Princeton I would’ve dropped all the RDs I know other people want.</p>
<p>tl;dr
IMO, out of decency, if you get into your dream school EA it’s not right to apply to other people’s known dream schools RD just because you can, especially if you don’t want to go to any of them.</p>
<p>@santaman1 i would imagine that a rejection from princeton might mean that the applicant should reevaluate his/her list of schools and maybe add more safeties… this certainly may not be the case for cornell, since they probably reject more than just under 5% of all applicants. </p>