I guess I’m just being cynical, and it doesn’t really matter. I’m just avoiding work
@MijoChbulkan Of course! Just because you have the 2000 unwritten barrier and a 3.whichever-number-suffices doesn’t make an applicant competitive. The game has changed quite a bit on the criteria for an acceptance. After all, it’s basically a crapshoot now.
@schroscat I just don’t see the logic behind deferring so many people. It just seems like a waste of time, considering all the applications they receive (I think Princeton’s EA numbers are similar).
@MijoChbulkan I completely agree. I guess it’s a soft let down.
Quick question: does the same adcom review our application once again?
@schroscat No, I think there are definitely some that merit a defer and not a reject, just not 74%.
And I believe they do, along with your update letter.
@MijoChbulkan Oh, yeah, definitely. Not everyone’s deferral is an eventual reject!
I feel like it would be better if a fresh set of eyes went through my application, but I guess we don’t have that luxury.
can’t wait for March 31st at 5!! The only downside is that that’s the week I had off of school for spring break…so I will have to find another distraction. My boss will be very excited when I say I’m open all day, every day that week lol. Also, I’m happy I have off that week so in case I get denied from 6/6 ivies i applied to, I will have a few days for the wounds to heal (even though I have very low expectations, I don’t see how I would’t be a little disappointed) 
@layla2016 Hey don’t put yourself down! I’m sure you’ll be okay. I have break during the week of as well, so I’ll be occupying my time with pit and loads of Harry Potter.
has anyone received likely letters? I didn’t know they were a thing until recently and not getting one scares me.
@perksofbeingdani Letters regarding what? I mean, what should those letters be about?
consciously trying not to freak out
@schroscat thanks Harry Potter sounds like a great idea, those movies are long so they’ll make the time fly
@layla2016 Right?! I could marathon for around three days? I might do a week-long binge of House and HP. I’ve decided that I’m not checking the portal until I get the emails.
@perksofbeingdani Not really 
I’ve heard of ‘bad’ scores of around 1800, but not that low. Sorry!
Realised right now what likely letters are feeling kinda worried that I haven’t got one…But I guess they send them only to the very best candidates so that they don’t slip away to some other college xD And I know for sure that I am not in the elite class of candidates anyway. So I guess us peasant types should wait for the decisions to come…
@blazedragon Last time I checked Princeton only sends out LL to QuestBridge applicants and recruited athletes. So if you’re not either of those you wouldn’t have gotten one. And fro those of us who do fall into those categories and still didn’t get one…well we gotta wait 2, pretty much 3, weeks. But in my opinion it seems as if pretty much no one on this thread has gotten a LL, or even known of anyone…is that true?
@bluepaint1 Definitely in neither of those categories 
Didn’t have any idea about QuestBridge earlier (don’t know if it’s even applicable to international applicants or not), and definitely, in no true definition, an athlete.
But that seems true, nobody on this thread has got an LL I guess, would be good for anyone who do get, though.
The rest of us will have to wait, hoping the days pass by faster! xD
What makes an athlete? In my eyes, being able to efficiently integrate using the Ti-83 is an athletic event. The thumbs get quite the workout. Or the noble chemist, carrying beakers from lab to lab. Or the mighty poet, schlepping shakespeare to and 'fro. We cannot forget the magnificent historian, bearing the weight of the knowledge of the defenestration of Prague (and not defenestrating themselves).
@schroscat It’s three am here and I just had to put my pillow in my mouth to stop myself from laughing out too loud! That was nice, although I must say, we are not allowed to use calculators for integration (Trust me, we are supposed to write 5 pages worth of stuff sometimes…Just for a pesky function that needs to be integrated 
), but otherwise, I totally can qualify as an athlete through your definition!
Not about the history part, though…History and I are poles apart. That’s a subject that I just can’t handle xD
@blazedragon 75% of the time, we have to integrate by hand. The other 25% is when my teacher gets too lazy to do it by hand and we are given the responsibility to decode the ancient math-9 functionality of the calculator. Funny enough, history is one of my best subjects…but only when I can debate it.
The Nerd Olympics 2016. May the geekiest prosper.
Likely letters don’t go to all athletes or even all high level athletes. They go to recruited athletes. The recruiting process generally takes place long before the early admission process begins and most LL’s go out just before the early NCAA signing date in the fall but there have been some last minute recruits who receive LL’s in the RD process. Although @schroscat I do like your definition!