Princeton SCEA Admission Chances

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Hi all. I am currently a senior in high school and just submitted my SCEA to Princeton last night. I’ve been doing a lot of research on admission chances and people’s individual experiences with Princeton’s admissions, but I’ve felt like everything I have read focuses very heavily on test scores and GPAs. To be completely hjonest, I’m pretty anxious aboput it and thought posting on this forum would maybe give a more personal and comprehensive evaluation of my chances.

Qualifcations are as follow:

End of Junior Year GPA (Weighted): 4.50
GPA (Unweighted): 4.0

Class Rank: 1st out of 623 at a decently competitive public high school in CA; am curretly a full IB diploma Candidate

Race: Quarter Chinese, Quarter White, Half Kazakh

Test Scores an Whatnot:
ACT- 35
SAT Math II: 800
SAT Bio E: 760
AP Calculus AB: 5
AP Calculus BC: 5
AP Biology: 5
AP Environmental Science: 5
AP Chemistry: 5
AP: Language and Comp: 5
AP Staistics: 5
AP Physics I: 4
have yet to take IB Exams, heard they don’t really matter post-admissions

Extracurriculars:
Captain on Speech and Debate Team
Captain of Varsity Swim Team
MIT Launch Entrepreneurship Club VP
Volunteer tutor at two difefrent tutoring programs
Member of Local Volunteering Club
Worked as alifeguard and swim instructor
Have been a private tutor for 15 clients since 8th grade

In terms of awards, I have my CommonApp filled with national/international awards

On a side note, I spent 10th grade in a foreign Central Asian country and speak Russian.

Basically, I know that there is never a definitive answer to people’s admission chances, but I feel like more personal interactions with people here with give me a more infomred answer.

Tanks <3

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@sanjik can’t worry about it now. IMO - your rigor, gpa, scores are all very solid, ECs a bit generic. Your life abroad will be interesting to adcoms. I think your SCEA app will come down to how good you LoRs and essays are…

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I urge you not to obsess over any one partucular school.

Can you try to think of it as a lottery? Only the students with your fantastic credentials get a ticket to the lottery. Beyond that, it is out of your hands. You may “win,” but if you do not, it is no reflection on you.

You want chances, @sanjik? Continuing with the lottery analogy - most of the applicants to Princeton don’t qualify for that lottery ticket. You do. You are the whole package. You have the grades and scores and athletics and awards. That brings your chances far above the <10% admission statistic. But it’s a big country, there is only one Princeton, and every high school has a valedictorian.

I would judge, 50-50. That’s good news. It isn’t a lottery any longer, it is a coin flip. Again, no reflection on you if you don’t win the toss.

Good luck, and do explore the other great schools out there. (Also coin-toss schools, for you.) If you are feeling obsessive, try to vary your obsession. So today, say, obsess over Rice. Read about their famous residential colleges. Look at pictures of the campus. Imagine yourself there. Tomorrow? Duke, perhaps, or Vanderbilt, or WashU, or UVa.