I’ve spent the past hour on YouTube watching college acceptance videos and it’s thoroughly freaking me out. I get the butterflies in my stomach and all the emotions when I’m just watching someone view their decision… I can’t imagine what it’ll be like when it’s actually my turn. This is making me more nervous than ever. Dec 14 please come soon!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9RboW6xJ14 This is going to be me on Dec 14
@meaa7130 This is what i’m thinking about right now…
@meaa7130 Me too! I spent the last hour rereading the 2019 SCEA thread; whenever I begin reading the posts made just before decisions came out last year, I get super nervous and jittery. Even though I know that my decision will not be released for at least another 9 days, it felt like I was waiting for Princeton to decide my fate. I don’t know what it’ll be like the day I actually view my decision… it’s something out of my imagination as well. I guess that I’ll know soon enough though. 
I feel like CC is going to make me more nervous on decision day — simply knowing everyone on this thread will make my imminent deferral experience a whole lot worse. I want to stop coming here, but I can’t resist the temptation. I have an extension on my browser that can “nuke” websites, but I can’t bring myself to use it.
I don’t know how to prepare for the bad news if it does end up coming. I read a thread on this site where the poster printed out dozens of rejection letters and mailed it to himself to prepare (it was quite depressing, but if you want to read it, it’s here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1828942-how-to-prepare-for-rejection-p1.html). The comments on that thread were all in the format of “look to the bright side,” and “there are worse rejections in life than a college denial,” but I fear that an overconfidence in acceptance would make a deferral even more disappointing and an acceptance less exciting; it’s the element of surprise that brings the strongest emotions during a college decision, but whether or not that element is something I actually want is something that I have yet to know. I want December 14 to come soon too… but only if I am accepted, if you know what I mean. 
What I fear is that I will be the @ambitious19 of the 2020 SCEA thread: an overqualified candidate who devotes too much time to the community and ends up getting deferred. I really hope that isn’t the case, but the probability that it can happen scares me a bit.
I always tell myself to spend more time on my other college applications and not this site, but it always ends up being the other way around. I know that an upside of knowing my decision is that I will spend less time on CC and more time on other productive goals (not because the community is bad, but because this site just uses up so much of my time).
9 more days! Well, 9 more days until the day we think Princeton will release its decisions. The fact that the school still hasn’t released its release day yet while every other school has makes me fear that they’ll throw a curveball and release on December 21st or something… but if committee takes too long, it might mean that there a lot of qualified applicants in the pool. But I guess that might also mean that the competition is more fierce and that many qualified applicants will be deferred for more trivial reasons. Yet this is all speculation; I know that I shouldn’t do it, but I always end up doing it anyway.
At least, if decisions are released late this year, we can spend more time on this thread together. To think that, in just over a week, everyone in this community will disperse and continue on with their lives is mind-boggling. We are only going to remain a united community of SCEA applicants for a short period of time, so let’s make the most out of it.
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“I got in! Oh, wait…denied!” “The application pool was exceptionally strong this year.” “They’re looking forward to reviewing my application. I don’t think that’s true.” “If you would like to request a paper copy…Yes, so I can hang it on my wall and cry over it forever.” =))
We’re going to be screaming and jumping around even more than when our son got his interview request less than a week after he’d sent in his application & first LoR. We’re making a drive to the Princeton area and buying T-shirts. I keep rewriting it in my head how I’ll announce it on tumbler, here, and FB. My son has his own plans to announce on repeat. Hub’s coworkers are expecting him to show up in a Princeton polo shirt and a coworker who just retired and is an alumni wants us to attend a women’s basketball game with her.
And if he doesn’t get in - it’s drown the sorrows in pizza and wait for RD on Yale, Harvard, and the match school, and put in more applications.
@TheMak0 That is utterly hilarious xD and super scary
@azwu331 I totally agree with you. Reading through the 2019 thread was scary, and I was vicariously feeling sad or happy when the peopel got accepted or deferred. It’s such a stressful process and for most of us, ends in deferral and then rejection. That’s just straight up depressing. And hey, even if you are the ambitious19 of this thread, you’l lend up getting into Stanford and Yale. That’s not too shabby if I do say so myself 
I’m so nervous for Dec 14! If its Dec 21 I will have a mental breakdown. When did Princeton release the SCEA decision date last year? I just really don’t want it to ruin my Christmas. I kind of don’t want to disband this thread after decisions come out, because all of you guys are so nice and helpful and really amazing people. It’s such a great and welcoming thread :’) I’m proud of us, guys.]
@FarscapeFan That is exactly what I’m doing!! I know how I’ll announce it if I get in, and I’ve been running scenarios in my head of how I’ll tell other people. That’s scaring me because I don’t want to think about getting in, because that wil lcrush my hope even more when I get deferred. I haven’t told my parents about when the decisions will come out because I don’t want pressure on me. It’ll be a happy surprise for them if I get in (hahaha like that’s ever going to happen).
@TheMak0 =)) =)) =)) =)) =))
Best Video Ever! Sharing now so my son can finally understand why I’m laughing so hard.
I keep imagining the group meeting up or trying to find each other on move in day and/or Admittance Day/week. (Does Princeton do those like some other schools do? Where the kids who got admitted come for special programming so they can decide for certain where they want to go? I thought Princeton did it, but now I’m not so sure.)
Anyway, if my son gets in, it’ll be "Okay, look for the laughing family speaking in fake posh British accents (it’s a joke between my son and I) with “___ Academy, Homeschooled to Princeton” t-shirts.
@azwu331 I think a rejection letter will finally drag me away from here too. This thread is keeping me sane. My son has his own social media sites where he hangs out and is swamped with his schoolwork and scholarship applications.
@meaa7130 I try not to think about my son getting in or rejected too, but it’s hard not too. He’s overcome so much this past year. Just getting this far is an accomplishment. Still, it’s hard not to dream further.
@FarscapeFan Just look for the other family talking in fake British accents, speaking of the troubles of why Princeton does not assign personal butlers.
@TheMak0 I can’t believe you mentioned butlers! “Mummy, don’t forget to feed the butler!” is one of the things my son says to me in our bit/banter…while hub hides in embarrassment. Son named our car The Carriage so he can say, “Mummy, did Papa go off to park the carriage?”
We’re a very working poor family so when we toured Princeton and read the brochure out loud for kicks on the drive there…well, how could you not start speaking in a posh British accent? The whole experience calls for it! It would be uncouth not too.
My son has plans to speak in the accent for the first month there, suddenly stop, and see if anyone notices. :))
Does Princeton still have a Quidditch team (club)?
Yes, academics and a campus where you feel like you’ll fit and be able to learn and grow is very important, but a Quidditch team, that means you’re even more awesome. 
@FarscapeFan I’m pretty sure they still do. Basically, whatever they don’t have, you can create!
“What I fear is that I will be the @ambitious19 of the 2020 SCEA thread: an overqualified candidate who devotes too much time to the community and ends up getting deferred.”
Did you just call yourself an overqualified candidate to Princeton? If your LOR writers know about this arrogance, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re not admitted.
You know there’s a reason (perhaps luck, but more likely than not some reason) that ambitious19 was deferred–certainly not that she was overqualified for Princeton.
Hi everyone! I’ve been keeping up with the thread for a while now and I’m excited for decisions to come out. Good luck 
I’m expecting to get deferred: I have great test scores (35 ACT, 800 on subject tests, 5 on APs), extracurriculars (lots of volunteer work), course load, and essays, but my GPA is a 3.72. Do you think I still have a chance at all?
@AcrobatX What? Did you even read the sentence?
I called ambitious19 an overqualified candidate, not myself. Hence there was a colon before “an overqualified candidate,” referring to ambitious19. :-w
Yes, you could say that ambitious19 was not overqualified for Princeton, but that does not take away the fact that she was well prepared for any school that she applied to. In fact, she was probably more qualified than many other students; hence is the reason why she got into many other great schools, such as Stanford and Yale. Only the admissions officers know why she was deferred and later rejected at Princeton; I do not know, but neither do you.
What I’m ashamed to hear is that you think that I am “arrogant” because I complimented ambitious19 last year for her stats and devotion to the 2019 SCEA thread. Perhaps you misread the sentence, to which I apologize for demeaning your previous assertion. However, if you have ever read my previous comments on this thread, you would know that I am not a person to brag about myself or any of my qualifications in what you seem to see as “arrogance.”
Anyways, I’m not going to go deeper into your statements. If you believe that I am an conceited applicant who does not deserve admission, then that is your opinion; however, I am not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise. Good luck with the rest of your applicants, and I wish you the very best when results come back in a few weeks.
@ughcollege1432 Your GPA might not be seen in the best light, but if you can shine in the other aspects of your application (especially essays), I think that you have a shot. Good luck!
Does anyone know how they will notify us when the admission results come out? It appears to be the 14th because of history, but Im concerned they might postpone it as they have not sent any public notifications and the results come out in a little over a week supposedly.
@DonkeyKong466 Scrolling through the Princeton 2019 SCEA discussion, I see that they found out about the 12/15 deadline around Dec 3. I’m also a little worried it might be postponed, but maybe it will be one of those things where they notify literally just a few days before decision day (is Princeton like that? lol). Meanwhile, almost all the other Ivies have their early decision dates next week, so my friends will be finding out their decisions probably wayyyyy before I will.
If Princeton actually follows the trend of releasing the decision a day earlier each year (2013 was the 16th, last year was the 15th, this year may be the 14th), then in about 45 years decisions will be released before we actually submit our applications
am i a philosopher or what?
@manwiththeplan lolol def true #princeton2060
@memelover thanks for the thorough response, much appreciated. Hopefully they send it on the 14th, because some of my friends are basing their future apps on whether they get in so they need all the time they can get.