<p>PUHopeful2019: don’t worry! I have that message too when I log onto my app tracker. I’m sure it means nothing.</p>
<p>A few days before admission decisions go out the app tracker is disabled. As I recall it just added to the overall angst of the process ;)</p>
<p>Just to prevent what happened to the Harvard guys; I’m sure you all know it, cause it was in the mail… We are not going to get our decisions on the applicants’ portal, there’s another portal for that: <a href=“https://notify.princeton.edu”>https://notify.princeton.edu</a> The Harvard guys were panicking at 1700 EST because they didn’t know it. (And yes, I was following their thread yesterday like it was breaking news on CNN 
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<p>Idk about Dartmouth, but JHU does come out today.</p>
<p>Can Princeton make a mistake and release our decisions early? :P</p>
<p>Take the wait as an opportunity to practice zen</p>
<p>@hopefulperson Dartmouth decisions come out in about an hour…though I don’t think they’ll crash CC like Harvard did yesterday. I guess the anxiety level will still be the same</p>
<p>And I wish… I check the portal very regularly</p>
<p>Stanford comes out today too!!!</p>
<p>And @hopefulperson LOL I wish…this week felt UNBEARABLY long</p>
<p>Harvard saw a massive jump in applicants this year; is Princeton likely to see a large increase as well? I don’t know how much of Harvard’s increase I can explain with their dozens of emails and letters haha. </p>
<p>I think it’s like 26% increase from last year.</p>
<p>@Istealhome: Princeton received 3,830 early applications this year! It was reported in the Daily Princetonian about a month ago.</p>
<p>Hey so this is kind of a break from the anxiety, but I’ve been wondering about Princeton’s early action application plan. So clearly I know that it’s restrictive and you could only apply early to public schools. I abided by this and only applied ea to my state flagship and a few other state universities.</p>
<p>However, I have been so confused about how Princeton enforces this. When you submit your app scea do they just take your word that you didn’t apply to other private schools? It’s so odd that they would make this restriction, but you don’t even have to sign anything. I do know people that applied scea to Princeton, but applied early to other private schools. So that isn’t fair, but Princeton would never know.</p>
<p>And also, why does Princeton do this in the first place? In a way it restricts you even more than ED because ED at least you can apply to as many EA programs as you want.</p>
<p>I don’t know. I just thought this was so weird. Of course I complied because I would do anything for Princeton. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>@Ambitious19 always coming in the clutch; thanks quasi-acquaintance!</p>
<p>@Starbucksluvr Okay that is DEFINITELY illegal. Your classmates (I’m assuming they are your classmates) will be screwed. If they get accepted, they will probably get rescinded. This is dishonesty to the highest degree. I’m sure Princeton has some way of finding out. I am shocked that their guidance counselors did not notice this violation of the SCEA policy and correct this.</p>
<p>Regarding your other question, Princeton, unlike many other schools, is not as concerned about its yield (since it’s basically the best undergrad school in the US) as some other schools like Cornell/northwestern/Dartmouth etcetc. Thus, it can afford not to have an ED program because they know that most kids they accept will end up matriculating. But of course, those applying during the SCEA round are sort of indicating that Princeton is their first choice, and will probably attend if accepted. Which increases their yield, an indication of desirability. </p>
<p>No, Harvard was an anomaly. I was seriously considering applying to Harvard, but I am quite glad I didn’t, they had a 26% increase from last year, and the number of people accepted actually decreased. The admissions rate dropped from 21% to 16.5% or something, which is ridiculous. As a result, I am wishing that Princeton didn’t receive too many. 3830 were received according to Princeton, but, however - that number didn’t account for other apps, go reread the article it explains it. I would estimate a few more at least, but not too many more - about the same as last years at Princeton. Hopefully, Princeton jacks up the acceptance rate for their early class as well…Yale applications went down this year too. But what I don’t understand is that overall Ivy applications SKYROCKETED this yer…Dartmouth is up 10%, Harvard up 26%, Penn up 4.8%, sure Brown is down 2.4%, Princeton and Yale are down about 1%, but in total…it seems that applications have skyrocketed…</p>
<p>Praying for Dec 15 :D</p>
<p>@Ambitious19 you are so knowledgable!! I am interested to see how it plays out for my classmates that did apply EA to other programs. I’m from a large public school and our guidance counselors are VERY unhelpful to students applying to college. They write a recomendation based off of your resume and really don’t offer any advice or “counseling.” It’s very frustrating:/ </p>
<p>I was going to convince my son to apply SCEA to Harvard as well.
With the 26% increase in applicants for Harvard, I am glad that he chose Princeton.</p>
<p>@Starbucksluvr No you wont get rescinded if you do do this. It is definitely illegal, and I would strongly advise against it - but they aren’t going to check in most cases, but if they find out, the consequences will be severe. Ambitious19 is wrong, she made it look like 100% of cases, the student will be rescinded, that’s not necessarily true; people get away with it for sure.</p>
<p>@lb43823 I’m pretty sure the student will get rescinded if the school finds out. How will Princeton ever be able to trust this person’s character ever again?? By violating this simple and clear to understand SCEA agreement, who knows what other academic honor codes the student will be violating at Princeton? </p>
<p>"According to Patricia Wei, associate director of undergraduate admissions at Yale, “When students sign the EA form, they are indicating that they are not applying to any other schools’ early programs. We expect our applicants to be ethical and abide by this contract. Yale does not share EA lists with other colleges, but should the Yale Admissions Office find out that a Yale EA candidate has also applied to other Early Action or Early Decision programs, we may rescind our offer of admission and we may contact the other colleges to which the student has applied EA or ED. It will be up to the other colleges what actions they will take.” "</p>
<p>So I guess you’re right-- if the college never finds out, you could potentially get away with it. However, I have never ever heard of a single person getting away with violating a SCEA agreement. </p>
<p>@Ambitious19 Of course the student will be rescinded if the school finds out. But most schools don’t cross check to that extent. Nonetheless, its illegal and should be banned.</p>