<p>Just got an email from my interviewer! 
I live in the greater toronto area, just to give potential reference to fellow applicants. (Freaking out right now)</p>
<p>The admissions process includes two readers who evaluate your Common Application first, read your essay and additional info, then decide if they want to read your supplement based on what they read in the Common App. They can either toss it or keep reading. Theyāll read your supplement, anything you attached, then read your letters of rec last. They then take into consideration any other feedback, such as from faculty who have listened to your Arts Supplement. They grade the survivors and send them off to committee, where everyone skims your file and grades you once more. They whittle down the pool until they get to the desired 700ish candidates. </p>
<p>Source - my old bossā sister is an adcom.</p>
<p>AHHH omg @alfawarlord thank you for this piece of vital information! I had no idea that admissions operated like this!</p>
<p>now Iām even more scared because out of all my essays my common app essay was the weakest oops</p>
<p>Ah, I see. I hope my november scores made it in time before they read my file. I would rather they not reject me without knowing what my ātrueā sat scores were. Hereās to hope. =p</p>
<p>My interviewer spelled my name horribly wrong in her e-mail. Well this is a great startā¦</p>
<p>I just want to know the date we find out</p>
<p>@Ambitious19ā very welcome
are a lot of kids applying from good old MV this year? Seems as cutthroat as it was when I was still there haha</p>
<p>The Mid December date, is that for when the notifications are sent out via mail, are receivers via mail, or just available online? </p>
<p>online, and likely email. I believe its December 15th.</p>
<p>@alfawarlord Yeah, I know 6 people for sure have applied SCEA, but there may be a couple more people that I donāt know about yet, or are keeping it a secret. Last year, 3 people got in SCEA but 1 was a recruited athlete. </p>
<p>all qualified applicants I presume? thereās a ton of academic superstars applying from my schoolā¦</p>
<p>@alfawarlord Yeah, all VERY qualified applicants, but idk if I would call them āacademic superstars.ā No international physics/chem/bio/computer science olympiad medalists, siemenās semifinalists, TASP-ers, or RSI-ers. But fierce competition nonetheless. All of them are going into STEM though, so that might be a slight hook for them because Princeton traditionally takes STEM people from my school. </p>
<p>Though they say that they donāt have quotas for schools, they have admitted anywhere between 2 and 6 applicants from my school very year, for the past 10 years. Does that mean certain schools are on their list and applying from such a school does give you a benefit?</p>
<p>@Opinion559 I donāt think applying from certain schools will give you a leg up in the admissions process, but if you attend one of the top 100 high schools in the country, Princeton will recognize your school since it has proven to be one of the most academically rigorous in the country/prepares students well for college. Nonetheless, there are many stories of students who are the first in their school to ever get into Princeton and stories of students from very rural, very obscure high schools who get in. </p>
<p>@Jumbotronā, you should get an email from the admissions office informing you that they received the scores.</p>
<p>According to a friend who went to Lawrenceville, Princeton generally takes between 22 and 27 kids from Lawrenceville School every year. My state had 4. 4.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what effect Questbridge applicants have on SCEA/RD admissions from a particular school? There have been many cases (not for Princeton, kids from my school tend not to go to Princeton) where a kid from my school has been accepted with Questbridge to a certain college and that basically ends it for that collegeās admitting any more kids from my school for that year. Iām the most qualified regular SCEA applicant, but thereās a very qualified Questbridge kid who ranked Princeton as one of her top 4 and Iām wondering if that has any real effect.</p>
<p>@nolasaxmanā aww only 4? :o perhaps youāll be one of them though!
My schoolā¦is pretty average. Usually only one person goes to a top school each year, and very few people apply to the Ivy League schools. But this year, we have 5+ people applying to Princeton SCEA, which is basically unprecedented, and only 1-2 other people applying to all other ivies combined :/</p>
<p>I hope Iām one of the rural, obscure people who gets admitted! Iām the only one in my class applying to an ivy or ivy-comparable school. SUHS traditionally only has one or two kids reach for top universities, and they usually get shot down in flames. </p>