<p>Once you take out legacies, athletes, and URMs, the acceptance rate goes significantly down. But, you’ve also got to factor in international applicants, whose rate is much lower than everyone else’s. Plus, during SCEA, you’re not competing with people who applied to other top schools i.e. Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, etc. So SCEA does have its advantages. </p>
<p>Anyone have numbers/care to do the math for URMs and/or internationals? </p>
<p>I think Princeton would be lucky to have any of you guys. I wish you all the best on the 15th. :)</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, one of my son’s best friends at Princeton was an unhooked, non-STEM, sub 2300 SAT, 2nd generation Asian applicant from an over represented state. Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether to be optimistic and face the severe hopelessness after rejection/deferral or be pessimistic and be at worst OK with the decision </p>
<p>I’m naturally pessimistic so moving on emotionally fits me much better than thinking I’ll get in and setting myself up for unnecessary disappointment, lol, do whatever suits you</p>
<p>does NY count as an overrepresented state?</p>
<p>@HPClee Yes. So are California, Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland etcetc</p>
<p>@HPClee <a href=“http://admission.princeton.edu/sites/admission/files/map-full2018.gif”>http://admission.princeton.edu/sites/admission/files/map-full2018.gif</a> NY’s third to Cali and NJ</p>
<p>OH HAVE MERCY</p>
<p>Good ol’ Tejas is fifth, wahoo.</p>
<p>If only I lived in Alaska…</p>
<p>I’m surprised there aren’t more from New Hampshire, isn’t that where Exeter is?</p>
<p>@hopefulperson A lot of Exeter students come from other states, and I think they apply as residents of their home state, not New Hampshire. </p>
<p>@Ambitious19 Thanks for the optimism; I think we need some of that with all the knee-jerk “it’s impossible to get in” reactions we tend to hear! </p>
<p>if i actually get in i dont know what im going to do, but i guarantee there’s going to be a party like no other at my house. </p>
<p>@Ambitious19 Oh, okay, didn’t know they applied from their home states.</p>
<p>Yay optimism!</p>
<p>Hold up though. States such as CA can’t really be THAT overrepresented because there are simply more potential Princeton students there to begin with. First we gotta remove international enrollees from the university enrollment total for the class of 2018, (1314 - 148 = 1166) and consider that California represents approximately 12.1% of the US population. We can clearly see that Princeton’s CA representation amongst USA enrollees (158/1166 --> 13.6 percent) and woooooah hold up there. I was so certain my math would back me up that I started writing my response before I was proven correct! Turns out that I’m mistaken. Princeton U has a more dense population of Californians than the USA as a whole. CA is indeed a little bit overrepresented, and this imbalance is amplified even more by the fact that the numbers should lean in favor of a heavy NJ/NY concentration. Woe is me (and my fellow California applicants) :(( </p>
<p><em>Sigh</em> international in the asian pool #savemepls</p>
<p>I’m growing way too attached to Princeton *sigh
But Ambitious is right, we should all be a bit more optimistic. Who knows? Maybe we’ll all get in (we as in all the posters on this thread), which is theoretically possible because there are at least 400 seats for us non-hooked, non-legacy folks as established earlier. 
I’m having fantasies of meeting you all at Princeton next fall unknowingly and finding out after a year of being best friends that we’ve conversed on this forum before. Fanciful much? A girl can dream… </p>
<p>What do you guys think of the statistic that if you’re a well-quallifed 2250+ SAT, 34+ ACT, 750+ sat ii, 3.9+ UW GPA, good ECs with leadership positions, well-written essays, good recs…most of us on this thread ARE that kind of applicant…what would be the chance that we would get into at least one top tier school having applied to let’s say, um 8-9 (5-6 Ivies, Duke, MIT, Stanford)? Would you say pretty high?</p>
