<p>Thanks @planner03 hope you’re right. Although, I live in NY/NJ area, LOL. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>@DoubleDiamond I am in the same situation as you!! I feel like my application was pretty strong but I haven’t gotten an interview yet, despite the fact that some other people in my school applying SCEA have had one already. </p>
<p>@ambitious I’m also applying to SCEA. Kind of losing hope for an interview with Thanksgiving holiday coming up and decisions coming out soon after that. Oh well…</p>
<p>Haha my mother is convinced that I’ve been rejected already :’(<br>
I’m just a bit upset because I feel like an interview would have added something valuable to my application </p>
<p>does anyone know the acceptance rate among candidates not offered an interview? for early action</p>
<p>@ambitious19 for all you know you could have already been accepted! maybe they decided you didn’t need to be interviewed!</p>
<p>@nolasaxman unfortunately, committee doesn’t meet until the beginning of December :(</p>
<p>I’ve heard from multiple college friends (incl. from Pton) that the interview doesn’t really matter so much. There are people who have gotten in without one. So don’t stress guys! I’m sure you all are strong candidates. 
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<p>the interview is not incredibly important, my friend’s mom used to be an admissions officer there and they don’t consider it very heavily, as how the interview went is incredibly subjective and entirely based on the interviewer’s opinion. The interviewer is only human, after all, and can be quite a sour person on some days and not on others.</p>
<p>@Ambitious19 @DoubleDiamond Princeton offers every single applicant an interview if there is an alumni interviewer available in the area, regardless of the strength of the application. 99% of applicants around the world get to interview, so just wait to be contacted. No worries, you guys are just fine! :)</p>
<p>So how does committee work? Is everyone’s application heard? Or just the ones that get high marks from the two readers? I can’t imagine 3800 apps being read to the whole group in the 10-12 days the have from the beginning of December!</p>
<p>Yeah, I had my interview last week, but my friends (brothers at Pton) told me that it really doesn’t matter. That’s good, because this was my first one, and it was pretty bad…</p>
<p>Trying to finish my RD apps for when I get waitlisted/rejected in about a month. Man, this wait is brutal (FWIW, the approximate notification date is my birthday, so that’s gonna suck…)</p>
<p>I have the exact same question. Does it help to add anything to your application by this week and does the committee actually discuss all 3800 applicants? I was also wondering if legacies will have an advantage in this round???</p>
<p>BTW, for those of you in NY/NJ area I just heard from one of the alumnus that they are still looking for interviewers since they have a record number of candidates this year !!! So I won’t be too worried if you have not been contacted yet.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone else here forgot to submit their Princeton Financial Aid form? This thread from earlier this week (<a href=“Financial Aid Email? - Princeton University - College Confidential Forums”>Financial Aid Email? - Princeton University - College Confidential Forums) kinda freaked me out and I want to know if this happened to any more people. </p>
<p>@Opinion559 Wait but how can there be a “record number of candidates this year” if the number of early applications decreased slightly this year to 3,830 as opposed to last year’s 3,850+? </p>
<p>The committee probably doesn’t discuss all 3800 applicants; they probably defer half of us before committee even begins. But I’m not sure. </p>
<p>Also, unless it’s something major, I wouldn’t update my application. If everyone updated everything they’ve done and every award they’ve won since turning in their application, admissions officers might get annoyed of having to sift through mounds of information. </p>
<p>@Ambitious19 I think he means a record number of applicants from the NY/NJ region.</p>
<p>Should we expect decisions to be out on December 15th? I thought Princeton, Harvard, (big ivys, etc) release decisions all on the same day, and I think Harvard SCEA folks are saying December 11th. Does anyone know? </p>
<p>@HPClee: exactly. That’s what I meant. Primarily from NJ.
@Ambitious19 : Would it be good to send a additional recommendation letter from a research mentor? </p>