Please make comments on my potential chance for Princeton University EA!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello everybody! These are my stats, ECs, etc., and I will be happy to “chance” back to those who have commented! :slight_smile:

Standardized Testing:
SAT I (Oct. 2015): 2300, one sitting (12 essay)
SAT II: Chemistry - 800, Math II - 800, US History - 780

APs: APUSH, AP English Lang, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish Lang = All 5s

GPA: We don’t do GPAs and I have no idea how to calculate things so here’s my transcript (we only have 7 “periods” as opposed to many schools’ 9 and 10 class slots)

Freshman year:
English 9: A-
Latin II: A+
Biology (Spring Semester): A+
Chemistry (Fall Semester): A+
World History 9: A
Trigonometry: A+
Spanish 3: A+
Health 9: A

Sophomore:
English 10: A+
Latin III: A+
Honors Chemistry (Spring Semester): A+
Honors Biology (Fall Semester): A+
Spanish IV Pre-AP: A
World History 10: A
Health 10: A+
Analysis/PreCalc: A+

Junior:
AP Calc BC: A+
APUSH: A-
English 11: A+
AP Spanish Lang: A+
Latin IV: A+
Physics (Regular): A+
Honors Portfolio Development (art stuff): A+

Planned senior courses:
AP Stat, AP Chem, English 12 (electives), Spanish 6 Honors, Economics: Principles (regular econ, not AP), Advanced Topics in Art, and a free period

ECs:

  • Taking art classes for 8 years
  • Summer volunteer at hospital, teaching kids art lessons and other more general tasks all over the hospital (200+ hours)
  • (3 years) Organizing and fundraising for a charity art show that raises thousands of dollars each year to build schools and orphanages in rural China (100+ hours)
  • 2 year editor-in-chief of our school’s art/literary magazine

Awards/Honors:

  • National Gold Medal in Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2015
  • Award-winning painting was selected as 1 of 25 by the Presidential Committee of the Arts and Humanities (Headed by FLOTUS Michelle Obama) to be displayed in the Art. Write. Now. 2015 show (it’s currently in the Lyndon B. Johnson Department of Education building)
  • I had an entire page of the New York Daily News (an article) dedicated to me, my art, and my thought processes/mindset in the fall of 2015 following my award winnings
  • my school’s 2D media end of the year award

Race: Asian (specifically Chinese)
Gender: Female
Income: Upper-middle class

Hooks:
Sister: Princeton Undergrad (Economics) '13, has donated each year since graduation and does admissions interviews for Princeton
Mother: Princeton Graduate School (Civil Engineering) '96, 10 year donor (has donated $10k+ so far)
Father: Former Princeton Grad school teacher (3 years before getting into Yale S.O.M and the family’s big move to Connecticut LOL), his fluid mechanics models are still being used by current professors to teach

THANK YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT DAY WHEREVER YOU ARE

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I think you have a great chance for Princeton (or any other top school)! I just graduated from college (HYPSM) and my stats and ECs when I applied were pretty similar to yours. Just make sure your essays are in shape and that you tell stories about your experiences in a way that highlights your qualities (ie. if describing your passion for art, you might tell a story about a time when some work of art didn’t end up as planned and how you learned from failure or something like that). And since your sister went to Princeton for undergrad, obviously ask her for tips specific to Princeton.

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Don’t bet on it, but because of your hooks and test scores, I think you have a better chance than most. The only thing that is a little lacking is the ECs; I don’t see many and they aren’t very focused (the art is though). The awards will help a lot too. What would your major be? I wouldn’t recommend going to Princeton for art. Anecdotally, I actually wouldn’t recommend going to art school at all. I could see you going into business. If I were to calculate your GPA like they do at my school, you would have an UW 4.0 (depends though, at some schools an A- lowers GPA while an A+ raises it). Good luck!

Chance back?

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1903498-separate-my-college-list-into-low-medium-high-reach-match-or-safety-i-will-chance-back.html

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GREAT CHANCE- I didn’t mean the caps lock lightly. You have amazing grades and SAT scores, amazing depth in the art extracurricular despite there being not that many extracurriculars listed, and legacy on top of all that. I’d almost consider yourself in if I didn’t want to be cautious at the same time.

Chance back? Please be brutally honest http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1904474-chance-me-for-the-following-rising-senior-with-huge-upward-trend-p1.html

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OH WAIT LMFAO I FORGOT (before I go ahead and look to chance y’all who’ve replied BTW THANK YOU SM):

  • Editor-in-chief of our school's foreign language magazine

National Latin Exam: Gold Medal (Intro to Latin, Latin I, Latin II, Latin III, Latin IV Prose) + Maureen O’Donnell Classical Dictionary Award
National Spanish Exam: Gold Medal (2014, 2015, 2016)

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Does your sister or mom have any contacts within the development office?

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Great chance, especially with your hooks, imo.

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@sgopal2 My college counselor is a Princeton undergrad '92 (and he’s honestly like my best friend now), and he’s the counselor who talks to Princeton directly for my school - moreover, the admissions person who reviews the kids from my school is also a Princeton alum of '88, with whom both my sister and I are acquainted with personally (this person and I bonded over both being members of the LGBTQ community coincidentally LMAO)

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Asian + LGBT will make for an interesting essay. Good luck, I think you’ve got an excellent chance.

Have some backups in place, because as I’m sure you know, Princeton is never a sure shot for anyone.