<p>Hey guys I’m from Toronto too. Playing rep. hockey is like the only thing I’ve got going for me right now LOL</p>
<p>@Jeff35 That’s cool! Are you recruited?</p>
<p>does anyone know about a “recruited” artist or musician? </p>
<p>@greenleaf4 no harm done of course, just an opinion.
I prefer to not post much on here but just want to say good luck to everyone. I’m pretty anxious myself and get on here every now and then to make sure I’m not the only one</p>
<p>@Cotwoag1 Oh no! I didn’t mean to come off as pretentious at all! I was really just curious if College Confidential users on this thread were a reasonably representative sample of all Princeton applicants–because I’m honestly intimidated by how qualified everyone seems. I wish everyone the best of news on December 15! And really, I apologize for coming off as affected </p>
<p>sorry this is so late @LukeBK , this got lost. Yeah, I sent my forms by fax (I was doing it with one of the counselor’s secretaries. About a few minutes later she got a confirmation email from the school saying that the fax was received. </p>
<p>tbh, people who get into ivies as recruited athletes bug me a little bit, since there’s like five people with subnormal intelligence and activities at my school recruited for harvard because they’re among the best in the sport statewide, not even nationally. there’s not really such thing as a “recruited musician” or a “recruited artist” anywhere, which is kinda irksome because that’s what I am and it’s not granting me any benefits. just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>anyways, legacies and recruited athletes are considered in separate pools than regular applicants. legacies compete with other legacies primarily, while recruited atheltes (grr) are pretty much guaranteed a spot unless they get a 2.0 gpa or something</p>
<p>@Vbdunk haha no I’m not recruited, wish I was though </p>
<p>@Vbdunk - by academically qualified I mean 700+ on everything and a 3.8 + with rigorous courses. That seems to be the threshold for recruited athletes in non revenue sports. </p>
<p>@idiscoverog – I think it’s also true, though, that there are applicants out there with lower stats who are being accepted but not represented here at CC. </p>
<p>To be honest, I think this thread is pretty much getting me through the wait time. </p>
<p>@alfawarlord Wait, when you say legacies compete with other legacies, are you saying legacy applicants aren’t compared to a “normal” applicant at all? Just wondering because that seems a bit odd…you could have incredibly qualified people getting rejected because legacies are filling slots. lol I have no idea, but it seems kinda strange.</p>
<p>I just hope everyone’s at least made the first cut. </p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, are the vast majority of Princeton SCEA applicants those with 3.9 -4.0 unweighted GPAs with the hardest courseloads?</p>
<p>pretty much</p>
<p>How much of an advantage is legacy at Princeton? Is it more than compared to other similar schools? I’ve heard that Princeton has a distinct emphasis on the legacy advantage</p>
<p>@Jarjarbinks23 yessiree bob</p>
<p>@idiscoverog totally understand. I can assure you that most of the people ere are overqualified, ands that many with not as great stats/ec’s get in. Just take a look at the 2018 SCEA thread and you’ll see many people with “reasonable” stats that got in</p>
<p>I also don’t understand the hostility towards recruited athletes. The whole point of a university is to make money, which is why they even have an admissions process in the first place instead of a lottery. To make the most money, you need engineers, musicians, and historians, but you also need athletes. Who would come to the games of a bad college team?</p>
<p>@Cotwoag1: The hostility does not stem from the fact that they are athletes. It is because they are admitted for a specific talents with sub par academics while a musician or a historian or a student scientist, no matter how outstanding the work/talent is, is not a special recruit and has to compete with all other students. A seimens semifinalist cannot get in with Bs and Cs and a soloist touring Europe is still expected to maintain the high level of academics. There is no alternate route for them. Therefore they fell the system is unfair. </p>
<p>@Opinion559 Actually very,very few recruited athletes are admitted with “sub par academics” as you say. You may personally know a couple but they still need to fall within the academic index for all Ivy schools, otherwise they are not eligible to compete at the D1 level for the Ivy League. Princeton has its own set of criteria for its athletes which puts the minimum number on the index considerably higher than the Ivy league as a whole. But I understand the discrepancy you are describing with musicians etc. I have heard that some of the other Ivys offer LL’s to musicians and academic standouts but I cannot attest to the veracity of this information. Personally I would see these achievements as equally important as athletics, but Princeton has yet to ask my opinion about it 
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<p>@Vbdunk Sorry to be so long answering your question, but thankfully @Sherpa saw it and got an answer to you. I agree - you would be considered a recruited athlete. If your scores are on par and your did a decent job with your essays and so on, I would say the coach’s support letter will give you very good odds at admission. </p>
<p>I look forward to hearing how it all turns out for you!</p>