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<p>I plan to apply ED at Princeton, and I am really anxious about my prospect.</p>

<p>I am a junior at a well-known and very competitive prep school in New England.</p>

<p>Here are the stats</p>

<p>SAT I: 2120 (I will retake it in October, hopefully breaking 2300)
SAT II:
Math IIC: 800
Chemistry:730
Physics:800</p>

<p>AP:
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP U.S Hisotory (5)
AP Physics
AP Chemistry</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (not weighted)
No ranking</p>

<p>Distinctions (not much)</p>

<p>History Dinner ( recognition of outstanding history students)
Junior math department award
Top scorer on AMC and AMIE (schoolwide)
State-wide Poetry Recitation Contest silver medal </p>

<p>ECs:
Math Team: Math League, AMIE, Harvard-MIT Tournement
Prefect ( a preppy position, an honorable and responsible upper-class guy who supervises lower-class students)
JV Volleyball: Co-capitan
Club Tennis and Club Basketball ( intramural sports)
Go Club ( Go is a world-wide known board game originated in China 2000 years ago): founder and president.
Physics Club: founder and president
Astronomy Club: president
Foreign Policy Association
Staff of school's newspaper: article contributor
Math Tutor</p>

<p>Summers:
Working as a teaching substitude and students supervior at an English Summer Camp in China
Internship at Apple Computer
Working at an American oil company in China</p>

<p>I am Chinese all my life and have been studying in American high school only since freshman year. </p>

<p>Thank you very much for your time</p>

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<p>i would say you have as good of a chance as every other person. you arent going to get any close-to-precise predictions from anyone here. do your best and apply. if princeton is your number 1 choice, go for it. princeton cares a lot about its application (meaning its essays). when you look at princeton's application compared to other school's, you get the feeling that they really care about who you are as a person. they ask a lotta personal questions and their essay topics are usually pretty meaningful. (a few years back they asked for your definition/meaning of ethics and morality, they've asked situational events). to make yourself more competitive you HAVE to focus on your essays. work with your parents/teachers. take all the criticism you can get. dont argue with people. you have to be open to anything to be able to write something well. good luck to you and if you get in ED, youll really realize that all that effort/stress 1st semester has paid off.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot for your words, shrek.</p>

<p>anyone else?</p>