Princeton Releases Admission Figures

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<p>According to an article in today's Daily Princetonian, this year's admitted class has seen a significant improvement in quality and diversity, and a drop in the admission rate. I've posted some excerpts that are relevant to RD people:</p>

<p>****"I was especially pleased by the quality of the applicant pool this year," Rapelye said in an interview Thursday. "By our traditional measures of scores and grades, our applicant pool was not only larger but slightly better than last year's academically."</p>

<p>***<em>"The average SAT scores and the number of students who ranked in the top-10 percent of their high school classes were both higher than last year, though exact figures are not currently available, Rapelye said. The Admission Office has also not yet calculated the number of "academic 1's" —</em>students holding the highest possible rank on the Office's internal academic rating scale."</p>

<p>****"Rapelye sent out a total of 1,214 acceptance letters to Regular Decision candidates out of the 14,477 that applied, for a Regular Decision acceptance rate of 8.4 percent." </p>

<p>***<em>"The number of students hailing from minority backgrounds increased 7 percentage points to 42 percent this year. Of admitted students, 9.9 percent are legacies —</em>a number which dropped from 11.2 percent last year. Men continue to hold a slight advantage over women at Princeton, comprising 54 percent of the admitted class —*unlike that of Harvard College, where women outnumber men."</p>

<p>****"From a pool of students from 6,152 different high schools worldwide, the Class of 2009 includes students from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., with the largest number of students being accepted from California, New Jersey, New York and Texas."</p>

<p>***<em>"Though students from 122 countries applied to Princeton, international students in the Class of 2009 hail from 46 nations —</em>making up 9 percent of the admitted student pool —*including countries "from where we don't always see applicants" such as Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, Kuwait and Moldova, Rapelye said."</p>

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<p>Oh, by the way, looking at the figures, Princeton is also admitting more students right off rather than relying too much on a wait list (which many of the other colleges use to initially accept very few students and report impressive admission figures, only to admit significant numbers of students off of the waitlist later on.) </p>

<p>This appears to be another of Dean Rapelye's efforts to improve the student quality at Princeton, rather than the admission percentages (although those are also improving), by snatching prime candidates immediately, rather than settling for less-qualified students who have chosen to remain on the wait list. That spells good news for RDers.</p>

<p>Although the class size is expanding slightly, and more students have been admitted upfront, because of the signficantly increased applicant pool the admission percentage has dropped 1%.</p>

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<p>California, New York, New Jersey, Texas</p>

<p>the only REAL states in the US of A</p>

<p>:-P</p>

<p>w00t!</p>

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<p>I think Indians are screwed yet again</p>

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<p>yep....its obvious. our stupid overrepresentation at colleges is KILLING us</p>

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<p>they arent saying URMs though...they are just saying minorities...is there a difference? :)</p>

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<p>sucharita:can u please post the link for the article</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S11/23/04G18/index.xml?section=topstories%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S11/23/04G18/index.xml?section=topstories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>The article said that acceptance letters were mailed yesterday. Does that mean that acceptances come first? For those of us who live in NJ, if we don't get anything today, there isn't much hope ):</p>

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<p>Well, yes, depending on whether or not they were mailed before the pickup time. But I would definitely be expecting an acceptance letter today or tomorrow if i lived in NJ. For CA people, ED acceptances arrived 2 days after they sent it, so I'd expect to get it Saturday or Monday if I lived in CA. From my knowledge, rejections were sent through regular mail and took longer to reach their destinations.</p>

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<p>What about Ohio people? :)</p>

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<p>what about upstate ny? does priority mail mean that accepted students will all hear today?</p>

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<p>i would say that anyone within a 100 mile radius of princeton stands a good chance of getting priority mail today. almost everyone else should expect it on saturday (unless you live in some very remote rural area in the u.s.) i say this based on my experience of sending/receiving priority mail in the past. there are many exceptions (it's the u.s. postal service after all!), but generally speaking that's what tends to happen. good luck everyone.</p>

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<p>arrggh...I just checked my mailbox, and there was a big envelope in it</p>

<p>...but it turned out to be a lousy electric bill of some sorts :(</p>

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<p>ha...... at least you have yale vivaldi87</p>

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<p>true...but I like both schools and really need to bargain for better financial aid...</p>

<p>Congrats on Duke, btw :)</p>

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<p>"would say that anyone within a 100 mile radius of princeton stands a good chance of getting priority mail today. almost everyone else should expect it on saturday (unless you live in some very remote rural area in the u.s.) i say this based on my experience of sending/receiving priority mail in the past. there are many exceptions (it's the u.s. postal service after all!), but generally speaking that's what tends to happen. good luck everyone."</p>

<p>THANK GOD. I was so nervous after not receiving anything today. I think im about 500 miles from princeton, so hopefully that means im not necessarily rejected.</p>

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<p>I think I'm like 90 miles away.</p>

<p><em>REJECTED</em></p>

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<p>Arg... so far, my track record with the Ivies (as of this week) is not very good. I really would like one... just one... too much to ask? Oh well. I got some schools I would be pretty happy at I am assuming. But you know what... I really would like the big P (as my friend refers to it; we don't want to jinx this...). My school would like the big P.<br>
Well... (taking a deep breathe) whatever happens, happens. Congrats to everyone's acceptances so far. And for those with rejections... I am feeling the same thing - hold in there!</p>