Should the grant aid I get for the university be consistent through all 4 years? This is assuming that my family income stays constant and nothing else out of the ordinary happens. The terms said that the grant aid will be reduced after freshman year because college students can make more money and will be able to increase their personal contribution.
Can anyone shed light on this? If you have any personal experience with Princeton financial aid, I would greatly appreciate your answers!
Hello! I have a question about Princetonās Visual Arts supplement. The portal asks for images to be formatted as jpegs no larger than 900 x 700 pixels at 100 dpi. However, when I tried to do that they become heavily pixelated. I canāt imagine why admissions would want that so I want to confirm this is true. Also are the 20 images a minimum, maximum, or an exact amount?
@mormongurl69 Your grant aid will be reduced in the second year due to the expected increase in earnings. However it will be increased again in years 3 and 4 due to the added funds to allow you to join an eating club if you so choose.
Any recommendation on banks or credit unions on or close to campus? I want to set up a local account when Iām there for PP or over the summer. Thanks.
There is a Chase bank across the street from Rocky on Nassau
Ok iāll try answering all the ones that havenāt been answered yet:
@ccer4lyfe Yes, definitely. Itās mostly on your transcript and then your personal qualities to a lesser degree.
@princeton22 I worked a boring regular 9 to 5 at the mall. Just do something you love and are passionate about. Iām pretty sure one of the essay questions surrounds this.
@OhPearl 20 images is definitely a maximum. Iād go for around 12-14, quality is much better than quantity. As for the jpegs, that sounds strange as mine were definitely much larger than that. I would ask admissions. Also, only submit work that is exemplary and at the professional, publishable level.
@JasonMath I would choose Wells Fargo which is also on Nassau. They have an incredible college card that helps you build credit and gives you $500 with no credit history.
@Homeless2Princeton @JasonMath - I thought there might also be a credit union near campus? Is it close enough to walk? My preference for my son would be not to use one of the big banks that has a ton of fees (or a ton of fees as soon as you graduate and arenāt a student anymore).
@Homeless2Princeton I have a few questions, if you have the time:
- What was the most foreign experience / biggest surprise you experienced in your first year?
- How easy was it to find your niche in the social scene?
- Were you unprepared in any subject (or particular skill) at first?
- What is your favorite class / professor and why?
- What is your concentration? What certificates are you looking at?
Thanks!
My daughter uses Capital One 360. There is an ATM in the bookstore right next to her dorm.
http://www.princetonfcu.org There is a branch in Frist Center.
The Princeton credit union seems to have reciprocity with ATMs near us (near Boston), too.
@psywar
Oh my goodness it has been so long since I got on here. Lol had to reset my password to log on. But I thought Iād answer your questions for the other dude.
- Biggest Surprise: During freshman year, I was like āwhat am I doing here?ā Honestly, itās a crazy experience being here, and I continually questioned if this was real life. Everyoneās so smart, and you just keep wondering how the admissions officers decided that you were a fit as well.
- There are some niches, but they mix a lot. So for example, I know a very conservative Christian who got into a hardcore, party-hard eating club. It honestly wasnāt hard to find your friend group. Frosh week was the best thing ever. Honestly, I wish I could go through it again. Itās an experience you will never get again. Like literally its a period when all 1300 people all try to become friends with each other, and you just have fun in events.
- LOLOLOL WRITING SEM. Tbh, most princetonians will tell you that writing sem killed them.
- Chinese has been a lot of work but rewarding. The teachers are amazing. It is a crazy ton of work, but Iāve learned so much. Oh also, you have like a different teacher each day of the week when you are taking Chinese language classes and not like literature or classical Chinese classes.
- Iām a classic premed so Iām thinking MOL or EEB. I donāt think Iām doing a certificate. It wonāt really do anything for me as a premed so Iām just taking whatever interests me. Iāll be taking classes across a lot of departments outside of my departmentals so going for a certificate would just limit my course schedule.
@psywar Hey! Iām interested in Chinese too. Thatās what I intend to major in there (Should I be so fortunate to be accepted) I absolutely love learning the language. How would you say that the Chinese program is, like could you elaborate any more on it? What level did you start at when you first took the classes?
@Whatdoyouthink thank you for taking the time to answer!
@pisker Iām not at Princeton, @Whatdoyouthink is taking Chinese, not me 
@psywar Oh! Iām so sorry! Still a bit new here. My apologies! @Whatdoyouthink I meant to ask my question above to you! haha
@psywar np dude
@pisker
Hey whatās up dude. Sorry for the late reply. Lol I donāt really get on here, and I only just now thought Iād check back to see if anyone asked anything about the answers I gave. But ya, so we donāt actually have a Chinese major. We have an East Asian Studies major though, and to get in, you need to take like 3 years of an Asian languageāKorean, Japanese, Chineseāand then you can use a couple of classes past that as departmentals. So Chinese here is hard as I said before (Chinese teachers said that one semester of Chinese 101 here is like a year somewhere else, and my memory is telling me that they were talking about Columbia but I could be wrong), but it is really good. So I started with Chinese 101, and Iām finishing up with second year right now. Lol and I always hear that they are the best Chines program in America or something? But you will have fun with Chinese and the content is pretty funny. Lol, the first chapter in my second year was about taking Playboy magazines to a friend in China. Another chapter last year was on why this one character liked Chinese classes better than English classes, because the Chinese teachers are pretty LOLOL . But also the Chinese department here runs a Princeton in Beijing program in which people from all over the country apply (if you go to pton though and take Chinese here, you are basically guaranteed in), and you spend 8 weeks in Beijing learning Chinese everyday. You get a years of a Chinese out of the way and two credits at pton. I didnāt do it myself, but a lot of my friends did and loved it. One of the awesome things about Chinese is how much they want to help you learn. For example, office hours are essentially anytime from 7-5:30 every weekday (and sometimes weekends when the teachers sometimes still come in to work). You have individual sessions with a specific Chinese teacher, but really whenever you want, you can just walk into any of your teachersā offices and ask them questions about Chinese. Heck Iāve even asked other teachers who donāt teach me. If you end up doing Chinese here, I promise youāll love it, especially if you are already interested in it. Also, there is a Chinese EAS minor. Basically you can take 3.5 years worth of Chinese and take one EAS class (or you could take less Chinese and more EAS), and you are now qualified for the minor (technically minors here are called certificates and majors are called concentrations, but everyone colloquially just say minor/major)
Wow! Thanks so much! I really appreciate it!
Does anyone here know: if DS wants to go to P and to take the special Humanities sequence (216/219 I believe are the numbers but that is from memory) - the one that is a double all-year course, whatās the procedure to enroll/register to get on the interested list for that?
Theyāll send you information after your acceptance, and then you just write a letter describing why youāre interested in the course. Be warned - itās A LOT of reading your Freshman year. Quite a few of my friends have dropped it.