<p>@Ambitious19 about how many recruited athletes are there?</p>
<p>@HPClee I’m actually not sure, sorry! But I’ve heard that athletes fill up 10-15% of an incoming class. Can someone verify?</p>
<p>according to <a href=“Future of athletic recruitment remains uncertain - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/10/18/future-of-athletic-recruitment-remains-uncertain/</a> about 200-205 athletes per class, which is ~10% of the class assuming numbers of athletes and overall admits have stayed the same since last year.</p>
<p>Assuming they all get in EA, they compose ~29% of the EA admits. Wow.</p>
<p>I’m done. Time to start my other apps. YOLO</p>
<p>lol ikr I’ve only finished my safety app (state school auto admit, woohoo) and 2 others out of like 9 total. whoops</p>
<p>…and then for EA you throw in the legacies and suddenly the admit rate for us unhooked saps is looking pretty low</p>
<p>What’s the legacy early action acceptance rate like then? I know about 100 legacies are accepted early</p>
<p>@hopefulperson Haha, I’m in the exact same situation as you. Godspeed.</p>
<p>@Ambitious19 - Your source was accurate. I don’t recall the exact number, but by Ivy League Agreement, each school is limited to something in the neighborhood of 200 recruited athletes, which would be 10-15% of Princeton’s incoming class.</p>
<p>As long as I’m addressing you, I recall you wrote something along the lines of “unfortunately I’m not the typical NoCal STEM Asian.” That’s not unfortunate at all. It may work to your advantage. Good luck!</p>
<p>@jhenry11 100 legacies/714 EA total = ~14%
So there are ~400 non-legacy, non-recruited-athlete admits…out of what is it, ~3800-3900 total EA applicants…optimistically that’s an ~11% rate. Wow. Great. Why did I bother again?</p>
<p>Yes but RD is even lower </p>
<p>@hopefulperson + first gen and underrepresented minorities lol</p>
<p>Aaaaaaand now I feel upset… The no-hook life =/</p>
<p>:| of which i am most definitely neither (asian second-gen) yolo</p>
<p>not much better, white 2nd gen here y0losw@g</p>
<p>lol definitely long past time to get my match/low reach schools out of the way and bid a fond farewell to thoughts of going to princeton y0l0</p>
<p>This thread is a great distraction from all the studying, homework, and final projects that I’m currently ignoring</p>
<p>@ScienceDaddy I’ve been looking at the same page of my homework for about 3 hours now. </p>
<p>I was much less nervous about the Princeton decision before finding this thread today. Now it’s getting to me and I’m becoming neurotic about it 
maybe I should just not think about it until D-Day. I mean, it’s not like we can change anything at this point anyways.</p>
<p>Oh quick question for you guys (defeats my previous point but w/e) - A friend was wondering if being Middle Eastern gives you increased odds? Middle-Eastern is considered white, so it doesn’t fall into minority categories, but I still think it could add to diversity for sure. What do y’all think?</p>
<p>Thanks @sherpa!</p>
<p>GUYS we have to stay optimistic-- yes, it might be harder for us, but it’s not impossible!! There are PLENTY of second-gen, non-hooked Asian/white applicants who get in every year!! I mean, they DO constitute the majority of Princeton’s population. </p>
<p>@PrincetonPls Being Middle Eastern is not a hook in and of itself, in my opinion. </p>