Official Princeton University Class of 2019 SCEA Results

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<p>The time is inching closer!</p>

<p>I know Questbridge candidates will be notified tomorrow, so here is the special format! (Thanks Happyppah!)</p>

<p>GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!</p>

<p><strong><em>Remove spaces in brackets before posting!!</em></strong></p>

<p>Choose one:
[ size=4][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted *[/color][/size]
[ size=4][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred *[/color][/size]
[ size=4][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected **[/color][/size]</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Essays:
Teacher Recommendation:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:</p>

<p>General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred
Applied through Questbridge</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (730 R, 670 M, 800 W)
ACT: n/a
SAT II: 760 US, 710 Bio, 680 M2 (yikes)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Biology (5), AP European History (5), AP U.S. History (5), AP Human Geography (5), AP English Language (5), AP Macroeconomics (4, Self Study), AP Microeconomics (4, Self Study), AP Environmental Science (4, Self Study)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Calculus AB, AP Spanish, AP English Literature, AP Chemistry, Ceramics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): QB College Prep. Scholar, NM Commended, National AP Scholar</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech & Debate (10-12), Key Club (11-12), Quiz Bowl (11-12), Science Olympiad (11-12), Liberty in North Korea Club (11-12, President), Columnist for a Science website (11-12)
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at local library and Key Club events (80 hours)
Summer Activities: Boy’s State California 2014, Publishing articles about science for a website
Essays: Common App (10), Princeton Supplement (7), Princeton Engineering (6)
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read, probably great (9?)
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read, probably great
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Intended Major: Chemical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Korean
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: < $20,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Unexpected events within family occurred throughout the past couple years.</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: Common App Essay, AP scores?
Weaknesses: Low SAT I/SAT II Math scores, No EC commitment for 4 years?
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: QB is extremely selective, only 30 people got matched this year out of thousands who applied specifically through QB
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Deferred Stanford, Yale, MIT</p>

<p>General Comments: Hopeful for RD, going to retake some tests</p>

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<p>[color=orange]Decision: Deferred<a href=“Through%20QuestBridge”>/color</a></p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>]SAT I (breakdown): 650 R, 680 M, 610 W 1940 Total
[</em>]ACT: 35 Composite 35 E 34 M 34 R 35 S
[<em>]SAT II: 690 Bio, 740 U.S History, 680 Chem, 660 Lit, 670 Math I, 680 Math II
[</em>]GPA : 4.1 (Don’t know weighted
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
[</em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): 10th: Psych (3), Human (4), WHAP (4), 11th: Bio (4), Chem (4), Stats (5), APES (4), Lang (5) APUSH (5)
[<em>]IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: All AP: Comp Sci, Govt (2nd Sem), Macro (1st Sem), Art History, Physics 2, Euro, Calc BC, Lit
[li]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): QuestBridge Finalist, Biotechnology Placed at Regional and National, National Achievement Outstanding Participant, local awards[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:

[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Engineering (TSA), Science UIL, Footbal (Varsity), Soccer (Varsity) 3 yrs, Writing Club, Psych Club, Cancer Research
[</em>]Job/Work Experience:N/A
[<em>]Volunteer/Community service:Volunteering with non-profits in my community through Y.I.P, clothes drives, church; over 300 hours
[</em>]Summer Activities: Engineering Nationals, study program at UT
[<em>]Essays:
QB: 7 (Rushed).
Common app 9 - I talked about obesity and my struggle toward healthiness,
Supplements - Insightful responses on the shorts answers, Princeton Supplement (7), Princeton Engineering (7), Extra (9) , EC (9)
[</em>]Teacher Recommendations:
Bio teacher - She absolutely loved me and we got on a really close level -10
Chem teacher - Same with Chem teacher, we on a really close level and had a lot of great conversations - 10
[li]Counselor Rec: probably a 9[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Other

[ul]
[<em>]Applied for financial aid?: Yes
[</em>]Major: Chemical Engineering
[<em>]State (if domestic applicant): TX
[</em>]School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: African American
[</em>]Gender: M
[<em>]Income Bracket: <15,000
[</em>]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen
[li]Interview: N/A[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Reflections
Strengths: ACT score, recommendations
Weaknesses: SAT I / SAT II’s, academics, not a strong enough applicant?
Why do you think you were rejected/accepted/deferred: QB is very competitive. I would probably still be crying of amazement if I had actually gotten matched.</p>

<p>General Comments:
I’m so excited for regular decision and really hope I get in. Hope this helps someone.</p>

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<p>Here is a better format to use:</p>

<p>Remember to remove the spaces after each initial bracket.</p>

<p>[ size=4][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color][/size]
[ size=4][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred**[/color][/size]
[ size=4][ color=red][ b]Decision: Denied**[/color][/size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:**
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:**</p>

<p>[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other</p>

<p>[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[ *] Intended Major:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported):
[ *] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported):
[ *] Gender:
[ ] Income Bracket:
[ ] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection</p>

<p>[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]General Comments:**</p>

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<p>**Decision: Deferred **</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown):2380
ACT (breakdown):34
SAT II:760, 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1
AP (place score in parenthesis):All 5’s
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Virtually all AP
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):National Merit Semi-finalist, Latin gold medalist, etc. etc.</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Essays:
Teacher Recommendation:
Counselor Rec: 10/10
Additional Rec: 10/10
Interview: Short, went well</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?:Yes
Intended Major: Econ
State (if domestic applicant):TN
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:Private
Ethnicity:Cauc
Gender:Male
Income Bracket:100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:Haven’t a clue
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:Accepted to multiple flagship schools with full-ride</p>

<p>General Comments: </p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2120 (760 Reading, 720 Math, 640 (ouch) writing)
[</em>] ACT: 31 (31W, 30M, 33R, 30Sci)
[<em>] SAT II: 730 MolBio, 700 M2 (ouch)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/175
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4s on Bio and Lang/comp
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): nah
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Gov/Econ, Honors Spanish IV, AP Chem, AP Phyz, APUSH
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • [<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): tons of basketball related stuff, president of California Scholastic Federation, Hydrogen Fuel Cell research development
    [</em>] Job/Work Experience: Spent a summer as a contractor
    [<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 250+ hours
    [</em>] Summer Activities: Mostly basketball, some work and some community service
    [<em>] Essays: Common App and Princeton both 9/10
    [</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read either, probably one good one and one “eh” one
    [<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably “eh”
    [</em>] Additional Rec: none
    [<em>] Interview: went pretty well

Other

  • [</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yep, didn’t need too much though
    [<em>] Intended Major: MolBio
    [</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CALIFORNIA
    [<em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
    [</em>] School Type: Pubic
    [<em>] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported):
    [</em>] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported):Native american (unregistered) , white
    [<em>] Gender: Male
    [</em>] Income Bracket:100-150k
    [<em>] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): URM native american…don’t know if it counted because I’m unregistered.<br>

Reflection

  • [</em>] Strengths: URM? Hydrogen research, essays were pretty good
    [<em>] Weaknesses: Test scores are super mediocre. Nothing really “wow” about my app.<br>
    [</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:
    Lack of wow factor, shoddy test score record

General Comments:
Although my scores look pretty meh, every single score and subscore listed is the highest in my class. I thought that would alleviate some of the lack of sparkle from the numbers. I retook SAT1s, 2s, and ACTs, and if I don’t blow any of my finals I’ll snatch back my #1 class when the semester ends next week. Hopefully that helps me out in RD. I only have a few AP Scores because of the way my school is tracked. I didn’t get to take any of those AP courses until last year and this year.</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>]SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (750 reading, 800 writing/math)
[</em>]ACT: Didn’t take
[<em>]SAT II: 800’s on math 2, chem, bio
[</em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/189
[</em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s on stats, world history, chem, bio, cal bc, human geo, us history, ap lang
[<em>]IB (place score in parenthesis): didn’t take
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: AP environmental science, AP macroecon/gov, health, AP comp sci, AP physics 2, AP psych, AP lit
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lol[/li][/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A lot of violin stuff, mainly, leadership in All-State/Region/local competitive youth orchestra
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: Not much to speak of
[<em>]Volunteer/Community service: ~120 hours at hospital, ~60 at food bank
[</em>]Summer Activities: Welch Summer Scholars, music camps
[<em>]Essays:
Common App - 8ish/10
Princeton supplement - 9ish/10
Princeton engineering - high 9ish/10
Summer - 7/10?
Extracurric - 7-8/10
[</em>]Teacher Recommendation: Probably quite good to excellent for both
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Idk, some reshuffling occurred since one counselor left so she’s only been my counselor for senior year. 6/10
[</em>]Additional Rec: Didn’t submit
[li]Interview: I thought it was awesome[/li][/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yup
[</em>]Intended Major: Chemical engineering
[<em>]State (if domestic applicant): TX
[</em>]Country (if international applicant):
[<em>]School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): Not Hispanic
[<em>]Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): Asian
[</em>]Gender: lol (I put female on everything, let’s just say that)
[<em>]Income Bracket: somewhere in the 100-150k
[</em>]Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): nada
[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>]Strengths: unique ECs for my particular school, focused on them quite a bit
[</em>]Weaknesses: very little club-type leadership/variety of ECs, wasn’t good enough at what I did do
[li]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: mediocre Asian violinist…maybe I should’ve talked about my physical/mental health complications? lol no that’s just making excuses</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: eh there’s always ice cream
guess I’m going to UT Austin whoooooo
idk i just feel like I could’ve taken care of myself a lot more instead of working for this despite everything wrong with me</p>

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<p>DEFERRED</p>

<p>•SAT I (breakdown): 720 CR, 760 M, 690 W
•ACT: 35
•SAT Subject Tests: 770 Math I, 700 Physics
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69
•Weighted GPA: Not applicable
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
•AP (place score in parenthesis): Not applicable
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, Natl Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar</p>

<p>Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science Olympiad, JROTC, Photosquad, Yearbook, Soccer, and a few others
•Job/Work Experience:
•Volunteer/Community service: lots
•Summer Activities: courses through talent search & pre-college programs in particle physics, astrophysics, game theory, computer science. Research apprentice, community service in south america
•Essays (subjects and personal opinions) about community service
•Common App Main Essay: about my military school
•Teacher Recommendation 1:
•Teacher Recommendation 2:
•Counselor Rec:</p>

<p>Other
•State (if domestic applicant): NM
•Country (if international applicant):
•Gender: M
•School Type: state military boarding school
•Country of Origin: US
•Educational level of parents: BS mom, MD dad
•Income level: >$150K
•Adversity overcome: URM
•Other hooks (recruited athlete, legacy, etc.):</p>

<p>What other results have you already received or are you still waiting on: Columbia, duke, Univ of Penn, Harvard, Emory, Rice, Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Reflection-what contributing factors do you feel were most important in the decision you received:
•Strengths: military school, urm, under-represented state
•Weaknesses: grades, lack of opportunities for deeper study, research, and competitions </p>

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<p>[ color=green]Decision: Accepted[/color]
will posts stats soon!</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (800 writing, 750 Reading, 750 math)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 800 world, 780 us, 730 lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9, 4.24
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 14/225
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):four 5’s, two 4’s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Enviro, AP Bio, Ap gov, Ap lit, Ap European, Ap econ, Ap comparative politics
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): national merit commended, ap scholar with distinction, national honors society, delegate to ADL National Youth Leadership Mission, Delegate to world affairs council meeting with John McCain then again with Dr. Angela stent [/li][/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): club soccer (5 years), varsity soccer (starter since freshman year), Adl youth delegate, president of russian club, NHS, soccer refereeing and coaching, v of geopolitics club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: daycare assistant
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[</em>] Summer Activities:
[<em>] Essays: 8/10? Everyone seemed to like them. My short supplements were okay and my long one was about a political discussion that I tied back to myself.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: one should be great, another should be pretty good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: should be very good
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: went really well[/li][/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: woodrow Wilson school
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): california
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): us
[<em>] School Type: competitive public
[</em>] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): white
[<em>] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported):
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Income Bracket: middle class
[</em>] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Strengths: showed passion, test scores, essays maybe?
[</em>] Weaknesses: ranking, gpa, extracurriculars
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: there were better people who had more impressive extracurriculars. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: let the wait begin!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] ACT: 35 Composite (36M, 35E, 35S, 34R)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 US History, 760 Math II, 730 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/443
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), AP Bio (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP English Lit/Comp, AP Psychology, AP Euro
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NM Commended, nothing else remotely major[/li][/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Odyssey of the Mind (Team Captain), Speech and Debate (Varsity Captain), Quiz Bowl (Varsity Captain), Mock Trial (Captain/Head Lawyer), random other activities, nothing big
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 6 years at local Cub Scout camp, including over 1000 hours volunteering. Really great, rewarding work with great kids.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Camp, helped organize school fundraisers (Carnival for a Cure, etc.)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Camp.
[<em>] Essays: Common App was ok (about overcoming my severe stuttering + lack of confidence in Debate), maybe 8/10, Princeton supplement was 8/10 (Wrote about how I met a stray dog in the woods, we befriended each other, and he joined the family. Unique, I guess.), I wasn’t thrilled with either, but they were apparently decent.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: 1 from AP Bio teacher / Quiz Bowl coach 8/10, 1 from 11th grade English teacher 9/10
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably 7.5/10, it’s a big school, but we knew each other really well.
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[<em>] Interview: My first interview, so it was shaky, but solid 7.5/10
[/ul]Other

[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yup
[<em>] Intended Major: Mech. E.
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Good ol Pennsylvania
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Large ghetto public
[<em>] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): Definitely not hispanic
[</em>] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): Pasty white
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~60k
[<em>] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): 1st gen, that’s about it.
[/ul]Reflection

[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: ACT, GPA, Recs were pretty good.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Essays were shaky, lack of (any) awards.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I have no clue how or why I was accepted. I was 100% ready for deferral.</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

<p>They say there are not atheists in foxholes. Well, there are no atheists in college admissions either. I can’t explain my decision when so many more qualified applicants were deferred. I sincerely appreciate the help of all of my friends and family in getting me to where I am, and I hope that everyone reading this understands that YOU ARE AWESOME!</p>

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<p>**Decision: Deferred **</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (760 CR, 770 and 770)
ACT (breakdown): 33 (did not sumbit)
SAT II: 800 Math II and 790 Bio
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.83
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (3) Stats (4) and Lang (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP German, AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Lit, Honors Econ
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2 major township awards but nothing major outside of that, Merck Science Day Test</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Football (3 yr varsity letterman/starter and JV Captain 2 years), Lacrosse (3 yr varsity letterman, 2 year JV Captain, and Varisty Captain 1 yr) Asian American Club (PR officer and executive board) Model UN (3 yrs) German Club (4 yrs)
Job/Work Experience: Unpaid internship running advertising campaign for former teacher’s new business
Volunteer/Community service: About 250 hours through local hospital, senior center, and other venues. Apart of NPO started by friends.
Essays: 10/10 for Common App and 9/10 for quote prompt (best writing I’ve ever had in my opinion)
Teacher Recommendation:Chem (9/10) and Stats (10/10)
Counselor Rec:7/10? (new counselor this year)
Additional Rec: Mayor insisted on sending one but just restated my app (4/10 at best)
Interview: Killed it, the dude had almost an identical upbringing as I did and said he would right only phenomenal things about me (10/10)</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Molec Bio
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
School Type: Suburban Public
Ethnicity: Asian (India)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: less than 200K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Recruited lacrosse player (not at Princeton though)</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: SAT’s and SAT II’s, athletic achievements, Essays, Recs
Weaknesses: GPA, AP scores, Ethnicity, no major awards,
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: If you’re semi-decent but don’t have the X factor you get deferred lol.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Ohio State and Rutgers accepted. Waiting on the rest. UChicago this week</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED!!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: </p>

<p>format is kind of off…sorry! :)</p>

<p>Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown): 570 CR 670 M 710 W
[ *] ACT: didn’t take
[ *] SAT II: 720 M1 690 M2
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 47/597
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human Geo, AP World History, AP Physics B, AP Lit/Lang 1, AP US History, AP Government, AP Economics, AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP Lit/Lang 2
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit/Lang 2, AP Biology, AP Government, AP Economics, AP Calculus AB, Masters Orchestra, Peer Leading
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st at School Science Fair, 2nd at Regional Science Fair, 3rd at Regionals for National History Day, 1st at State for National History Day, Competed at Nationals in Washington DC for National History Day, Received Certification from Gwinnett County Board of Education for National History Day
[ /list][ b]Subjective:**</p>

<p>[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Government (President), French Club (President), Senior Cabinet (Vice President of Senior Class), Science National Honor Society (Secretary), Tri-M Honor Society, National History Club (Vice President), French National Honor Society, Masters Orchestra (concert master), MUMC Orchestra (concert master), National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Academic Team, Collins Hill Leadership Team, Meadow Trace Marlins Summer League Swim Team (Junior Coach), Black Heritage Club, Junior Cabinet (did it to get into Senior Cabinet)
[ *] Job/Work Experience: none
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: standard volunteering everyone else does lol
[ *] Summer Activities: National History Day Competition at Nationals and Coached for Meadow Trace Marlins Summer League Swim Team and I also swam in meets
[ *] Essays: 10/10 (Common App)-Talked about how I almost quit the violin and music altogether until I learned how to appreciate the violin itself and how it became a passion and connected all of that to Natalie Portman’s character in Black Swan as she achieves being perfect. 8/10 (Long Supplement)-Talked about the true identity of being an “African” American instead of a Black American and my culture’s values and how i identify with it like with Ebola (I’m Liberian) and other things. (Short Supplements)-Talked about how being a Junior Coach for my summer league swim team as being my favorite volunteer experience and talked about National History Day and competing at Nationals and how I have a new profound love/respect for history thus gaining an identity from that journey
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: 1st Teacher-(10/10) He loves me. I had him for two years, APUSH and AP Gov. I have no doubt it was phenomenal. 2nd Teacher-(8/10) I had her for two years, AP Lit/Lang 1 and AP Lit/Lang 2, and she has watched me grow with my writing in her class. She complimented my brag sheet.
[ *] Counselor Rec: (10/10) SHE LOVES ME! She’s the best! I know her personally and she is my Peer Leading Teacher so I spend so much time with her and she knows how hard I work!
[ ] Additional Rec: none lol
[ ] Interview: It was really chill/fun, like everyone else’s hahaha but she asked a lot of questions about my culture and me being Liberian and the entire Ebola outbreak and then we ranted about our hatred towards physics LOL and we both talked about being children of immigrants so it was good! I made her laugh a lot and she said “dammit” openly hahaha when we talked about beer and eating clubs! She’s young so it was really laid back
[ /list][ b]Other</p>

<p>[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: YES
[ *] Intended Major: Molecular Biology
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Large Public
[ *] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): Not Hispanic
[ *] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): Black
[ *] Gender: male
[ ] Income Bracket: <30,000
[ ] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): URM, 1st generation, single parent household
[ /list][ b]Reflection</p>

<p>[ *] Strengths: my essays, recommendations, and ECs
[ *] Weaknesses: my SAT score
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:Honestly my essays spoke more than anything else on my essay! I made my violin my entire application and it came to life regardless of my dumb SAT scores! hahaha and I also sent in an art supplement! </p>

<p>[ /list][ b]General Comments:** If you wanna read my essay or have any questions feel free to DM me :slight_smile: </p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (780 reading, 770 math, 800 writing)
ACT: 35 (36 writing, 36 reading, 34 math, 35 science)
SAT II: 800 bio M, 780 math 2, 780 chem, 780 world history
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/104
AP (place score in parenthesis): all 5s on world history, chem, french, us history, lit, bio, calc AB, latin (vergil)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: ap physics, ap lang, ap stats, ap macro, latin 5, calculus II course at local state school
Awards (mostly minor): national merit semifinalist, 3x national latin exam gold medalist and book award recipient, rank 2 in level 5 of national french contest, ranked in top 10% on an international Russian language olympiad, national ap scholar

[list]Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): latin club (president), academic team, science olympiad, mathletes, national honor society, art portfolio work, co-founder and member of a Russian-speaking theater troupe that has successfully performed in almost 20 productions, winning international recognition (twice) at an annual youth theater festival
Job/Work Experience: worked on structural biology research during summer and afterwards, wrote a paper for submission to intel. volunteered as a teacher’s assistant in a second-grade math class at an enrichment program for one year and currently teach a third-grade math class there
Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours
Summer Activities: simons summer research program, volunteer counselor at a science camp (180 hours of community service)
Essays: common app probably 7/10, princeton supplement 9/10
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t see, probably good
Counselor Rec: didn’t see, probably good
Additional Rec: research mentor (great) and art teacher outside of school (as part of my arts supplement)
Interview: went well, not that it has much bearing on decisions anyway

[list]Other:</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: molecular biology
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: small public
Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported):
Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: qualifies for financial aid
Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): nope… (immigrant parents from USSR? not really a hook…)

[list]Reflection:</p>

<p>Strengths: i don’t even know anymore
Weaknesses: don’t want to think about this right now
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: only the admissions office will ever know the absolute truth.</p>

<p>[list]General Comments: this whole college admissions thing is really unpleasant (unless you get in, of course… then it’s probably still unpleasant, but worth it). <em>goodbye, princeton. i will always wish you had accepted me…</em> good luck to all of you fortunate newly-admitted princetonians!</p>

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<p>Objective
Deferred…</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2170 (740 CR/750 W/ 680 M) (I took the December test and haven’t gotten back those scores…pretty sure it went up significantly)
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II: 760 USH, 710 Lit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/12
AP (place score in parenthesis): USGOV(5), USH(5), APES(4), Lit (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Gov, AP micro and macro, AP Calc II, Honors Anatomy, H English 12
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): </p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Interact (President), National Spanish Honor Society (President), NHS (President), Academic competition (captain), School newspaper (editor)
I go to a reallyyyy small school so there isn’t much
Job/Work Experience: I had a job in a café for like a year…
Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours tutoring
Summer Activities: LBW at Wharton…self-studying several classes/ prepping for SAT on my own b/c broke…
Essays: Common App was really emotional…my mom intentionally overdosed 6 years ago after years of drug abuse
and I wrote about the dealing with that.
Princeton supp was okay…I wrote about how my dad has moved on with his new family
Teacher Recommendation: I have no idea; I hope they were good.
Counselor Rec: ^^^
Additional Rec:
Interview: Really amazing</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Oh yes
Intended Major: WWS
State (if domestic applicant): VA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Really small private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket: it depends on the year honestly but this year’s taxes show a negative
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation…</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: I have a sad story and have overcome a lot
Weaknesses: Everything else, really
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: SATs…ECs (even though I can’t really help that)
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: If my new scores are good, I’ll apply to Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Harvard. I’m also applying to Duke, USC, UVA, and some others I can’t think of right now lol</p>

<p>General Comments:
Congrats to everyone who got in</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted!!! **</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown):2340-800CR-740 M-800 W
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II: Bio (M): 750, German 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 x 5 in sciences, calc
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 5 aps
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): One major essay contest, several regional. For privacy not going to post them all!</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Soccer (captain), orchestra (first chair), gymnastics
Job/Work Experience: gymnastics instructor
Volunteer/Community service: Lots…won’t go into detail for privacy!
Summer Activities: CTY, hospital internship, learning Italian
Essays: Have no idea how good they are… my Princeton supp. was a little edgy
Teacher Recommendation: Could be terrible or great
Counselor Rec: Good
Additional Rec:
Interview: Meh</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes… but didn’t get it
Intended Major: CBE!!!
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Canada
School Type:
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>

<p>General Comments: :)</p>

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<p>**Decision: Deferred **</p>

<p>[ul]Objective:
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2150 (CR:660; M:720; W:770; 10 essay)
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): N/A
[<em>] SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math II:(760); US Hist:(730)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0; (4.38 weighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 2%
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): 5 (5’s) 1 (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parentheses): yes, but haven’t taken tests yet
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Band, IB English, IB Latin, IB Calc, IB Physics II, IB WT, IB CS, IB ToK, Government
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Olympic Gold in downhill slalom as well as Academy Award for best supporting actor. Seriously? If I won a major award I don’t think I would have to fret over where I ended up for college.[/ul]
[ul]Subjective:
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):Debate- state ranking; Band (section leader) - lots of awards; Piano - lots of awards; Zero Robotics[/li][</em>] Job/Work Experience: clerked at law firm
[<em>] Volunteer/Community Service: tons
[</em>] Summer Activities: Worked at soup kitchen in LA, Medical missionary to African country, visited colleges, published an iOS app on iTunes.
[<em>] Essays: Hard to self-grade. I did better on the Princeton specific than on the Common App, I thought.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendations: I didn’t read them but I hope they were good. One was by a teacher that genuinely seems impressed by me but my HS sends multiple people to the elite universities every year so it is hard to gauge.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: 10/10 (My theory on these is that they are worthless. Counselors have a bias in favor of placing students at elite universities to protect their jobs. It would be foolish for a counselor to give a less than stellar recommendation—at least at my school)
[</em>] Interview: I did not have one, surprisingly. Maybe that should have told me something.
[/ul]
[ul]Other:
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid? affirmative
[</em>] Projected Concentration: Woody Woo
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): prefer not to disclose
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Dude
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, I’m just your stereotypical white privileged kid
[/ul]
[ul]Reflection:
[li] Strengths: GPA and course rigor, recommendations and Princeton essay. [/li][</em>] Weaknesses: SAT, I have a hard time with the CR test. Specifically the "choose the best answer” questions. Because of debate training I always go back and forth between the two best answers arguing in my head the merits of each.
[<em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I haven’t cured cancer or won an academy award, I didn’t stand out enough.
[</em>]Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Already accepted to my state U. I am applying to several second tier schools. I always knew Princeton was a reach. The question now will become how much educational bang can I get for the buck.
[/ul]
General Comments:
Durate et vosmet rebus servate secundis - Carry on and preserve yourselves for better times </p>

<p>Better times will come because we are all too gifted for anything less. Looks like I will be lurking on CC a lot more (on on a lot more colleges’ threads).</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (760 CR/760 W/ 770 M) Only took once
ACT (breakdown): 34 (Didn’t send)
SAT II: 760 Math II, 750 World History, 730 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/379
AP (place score in parenthesis):English Lit, Music Theory, Physics B, US History, World History, Environmental Science (5), Statistics, Computer Science (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Calc AB, DE Econ, DE Gov, DE English, DE Spanish V, Chorus
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none really</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars Among many random ones, Boy Scouts, Sunday School Teacher, All-State Vocalist
Job/Work Experience: Church organist for 4 years, Accompanist, Paid Vocalist
Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours
Summer Activities: TASP, Carnegie Mellon SAMS
Common App Essay: About playing organ and how religion is the cornerstone of my life.
Princeton supplement: poured out my heart about how I didn’t like TASP and elaborated on my experiences as an AA.
Teacher Recommendation: Both fantastic writers, one from Physics teacher who really connected with me and other from math teacher i’ve had for 3 years.
Counselor Rec: Probably very average even though my GC said he thought it was great</p>

<p>Interview: Weird. I had a septuagenarian interview me and he asked me random questions. It was a fun interview, but he asked me if I smoked weed and drank?? Also a lot of talks about politics lol. </p>

<p>Sent in music supplement for voice and piano which may or may not have had any impact (i’m leaning towards prob not)
Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?:yup
Intended Major: Geosciences
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: very average medium sized public
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: M
Income Bracket: Was Upper middle class, now much lower due to family circumstances
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: Worked hard, music, teachers liked me a lot. Fantastic Standardized tester.
Weaknesses: My high school is not competitive. No major awards. I’m sure the essays weren’t 10/10 either.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Came off as likable and honest.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted: Upitt (full ride- fasion scholarship) Penn State, Uminn (full tuition+), WashU (very early write for regular decision + Ervin scholarship contender).
Applied: Harvard, Yale, MIT, Chapel Hill, Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Stonybrook, Binghamton, Dartmouth, Duke, Vanderbilt, Upenn, Cornell
General Comments:
:)</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted **
Well, I promised myself that if I got in I would do one of these for future high school students so I can’t back out now. It’ll be awkward if my friends find out I put one on here though…</p>

<p>Objective</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send
ACT (breakdown): 36: 35, 36, 36, 36
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Chem, 780 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
AP (place score in parenthesis): Took 8 and got 5’s on all of them
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Dual enroll math and chem, ap comp sci, ap physics i, ap stats, adv science fiction
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): national ap scholar and national merit semi? not really major lol</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis (Captain, some regional awards in competitions), Science Olympiad (captain, regional awards), and one other big thing that I can’t really reveal because it would be bad for privacy reasons
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: stock
Summer Activities: see above
Essays: I can’t really judge my own writing, I thought they were good
Teacher Recommendation: Both teachers knew me very well, got to read them and they conveyed my personality well
Counselor Rec: I don’t know if she knows my name
Additional Rec: None
Interview: Went well, we found some common interests and expanded our conversation on that</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: One of the engineerings, don’t remember
State (if domestic applicant): Midwest
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: huge
Ethnicity: asian
Gender: male
Income Bracket: 100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): the slick flow rivaling that of hockey players</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: Academics, maybe extracurriculars
Weaknesses: Lack of awards
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: My strong academics. People like to downplay grades and test scores here, but I’d say they were the thing that powered my application through. The extracurriculars provided the final push and I was lucky enough to make it
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: it’s early action and princeton’s really fast so</p>

<p>General Comments: Maybe they see me as the kid that’ll lead all the review sessions at Princeton. They craft their class to create a functional mini-society so I guess that might be it. If you want to ask me any questions you can message me but I can’t guarantee I’ll respond because, well, I might not even remember my password </p>