<p>@POmani. Don’t worry. I was accepted in Princeton SCEA and wrote around a paragraph for the source of inspiration while the others were like two words each. Everything will be fine :)</p>
<p>Haha, thanks guys. I think any admissions officer would be willing to overlook the mistakes when they realise that I put a 2pac song as my favourite track. AAAAWWW YEAH.</p>
<p>Just curious, what time they will put the result or send an email on March 28 ?</p>
<p>What time will logging into the Admitted Students website give a definite result?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it should be around 5 PM eastern time.</p>
<p>If they wanted us to write entire paragraphs, they would have given us more space. There was only enough room for a few words each.</p>
<p>2pac will make it all okay, don’t worry.</p>
<p>Just for fun: [Countdown</a> to Mar 28, 2013 5:00 PM EDT](<a href=“Countdown Timer – Time since Mar 28, 2013 5:00 pm started in Trenton”>Countdown Timer – Time since Mar 28, 2013 5:00 pm started in Trenton)</p>
<p>You guys seem really happy about Princeton, but look at what happen to this student.</p>
<p>[Letter</a> to Princeton Admissions – One Applicant Draws a Line in the Sand - New America Media](<a href=“new america media - My WordPress Blog”>new america media - My WordPress Blog)</p>
<p>The interview doesn’t matter much at all. It’s pretty much just to make sure you’re not crazy unless you have something amazing that doesn’t come through in your essays. My interview was screwed up and relegated to a phone conversation but I still got in and my interviewer later offered me an internship.</p>
<p>My interview was super casual, the alumni I talked to didn’t seem to herself feel that the meeting was the usual fiasco wrought with anxiety that many applicants have in mind.</p>
<p>@universityman</p>
<p>Wow. I can’t believe the student handled the situation like that.</p>
<p>He was baffled that Princeton “could have simply made a mistake” ?</p>
<p>Mistakes happen. Also people get stuck in traffic, have medical emergencies, get flat tires, forget, get locations wrong, etc.</p>
<p>I have no idea why he didn’t just contact the interviewer the day of the interview to reschedule. Then this:
“I requested they send me the rules governing admissions so I could understand how to proceed. I explained that I wanted to correspond through emails rather than phone calls to avoid any “he said/she said” dilemmas. I also mentioned how students in San Francisco each year receive a student hand book that spells out our rights and responsibilities and the consequencies of breaking rules. Wouldn’t Princeton be governed similarly in its behavior toward applicants?”</p>
<p>Ya I as well wondered why he handled it so awkwardly, he could have just contacted the interviewer in question…</p>
<p>He sounds articulate enough about his feelings here, but I cringed throughout his entire handling of the interview fiasco. Eh, 3/10.</p>
<p>He sounds articulate enough about his feelings here, but I cringed throughout his entire handling of the interview fiasco. Eh, 3/10. Although it does suck that the alum missed an interview and didn’t apologize with more humility. Bit insensitive right there.</p>
<p>that applicant sounds like such a ******bag. seriously? his interviewer made a mistake so he emailed the dean of admissions demanding the BYLAWS governing alumni interviews? give me a break.</p>
<p>I had an amazing interview with a man on his 85th birthday. I’m heavily involved in politics and learned he was once a state senator and his wife served both in the state house and senate and his daughter served a vacancy for a district I’m familiar with and was primaries and lost. Fortunately, (and for the first time in any college interview) we were of the same party. Even though he was a chemistry major, we had an awesome conversation. He told me his roommate, for his thesis, interviewed Calvin Coolidge’s widow. How much political history of a century just passed through one conversation! Even though it has been over a half century since he was at Princeton he made me love it. While doubtful I’ll get in (and doubtful for most of us), I can still hope.</p>
<p>I agree that student sounds like a very stuck up kid asking for bylaws and other crap. Just email the interviewer and understand that mistakes happen. No need to get all worked up about it.</p>
<p>i actually had my P-town interview when i was in the hospital in february… it had been scheduled at a starbucks, but when i learned that she worked there (and that i wouldnt be out by our interview date), i took a risk and asked her to meet me in one of the public spaces at the hospital. she had just gotten off of a shift, and i dressed like i would have at any other interview. it was an hour long and was very nice.</p>
<p>@the sand line drawer: Princeton freshmen are happy you won’t be attending!</p>