Princeton SCEA Class of 2020 Applicant Thread

@Pburgmom I think you win the award for latest interview on the thread lol!! But I’m sure your daughter will do great, irregardless if it factors into the decision at all. Thanks for sharing!

if anyone cares btw its fanatics.com and you can just type in Princeton Tigers. It’s located in Jacksonville Florida, so shipping is going to take however long it’ll take from that location. I’m NJ, and it takes about a week to ship (on the free-shipping plan). They have quite a bit of stuff, so I’d take a look!

Does anyone know when the decisions are? Or is it actually just mid-December

Still no definitive date, @running1998 :frowning:

Oh, Princeton. We need someone with the spidey senses to tell us when the decision date is. Or the decision date of the decision date, at least.

this just in: princeton will be actually releasing our decisions Dec 15th, 2057

@memelover On Reddit I saw someone who was on The Crimson confirm the Harvard date because he saw the SCEA article was supposed to go out friday. Do we know of anyone on The Daily Princetonian willing to let something slip?

On twitter, @ applyprinceton tweeted, “Applicants will be notified soon about when SCEA decisions will be made available” a few hours ago to a guy who asked about the date… Why Princeton, why. This wait is hurting me more than the possibility of a rejection.

@lonelyowl- it was actually a girl who asked. :wink:

@FarscapeFan - I’ve heard that the “top schools” do NOT track demonstrated interest (i.e. visits etc.). However, I actually don’t believe it in my heart of hearts. In particular, Penn and Cornell, both Ivies, seem to care if you show them love. Some on CC say, “well of course, Penn and Cornell aren’t top schools” so OK. I think even Harvard wants you to articulate why you love them so much in the application - and the most compelling reasons would be around your experience in a visit.

@Mel1997 Black girl interested in neuro!

Tick tock, tick tock … do we get email at some point notifying us of decision date, or could results just pop up announced? Oldest child, no experience on this process… Thank you

@princeton2020eas As much as I’d love to be surprised to check the portal and see the tiger today unannounced, they have said that they will notify applicants “soon” of when they will be releasing the decisions. Someone called and they mentioned that it would be “a week before” so Friday is possibly it. I think they said it would be coming next week and NOT the week of the 21st through 25th… I could be wrong though.

Also potentially “a week” could just be an approximate figure so I don’t think it’s certain that it’s going to be the 18th, just inferred.

@CautiousOptimist - you are almost certainly correct, but it reminds me of the “hangman’s paradox” :wink:

@fretfulmother Hangman’s Paradox wiki article confirms Wednesday Dec 16th decision day /s

Princeton will report before the 15th, Offices close for break on the 18th. So they have to get the decisions out at the beginning of next week. Most likely Monday, the 14th!

@drlans What about the 16th or 17th?

I just got an email from Dartmouth College this morning. Our ED results are coming out next Wednesday. Yours will probably be around that time too.

@drians How you do know they will report before the 15th?

I guess it makes a little bit of sense that they’d maybe want to make sure everything goes smoothly instead of hitting the button and leaving for a few weeks? Maybe having a few days to answer questions or something? Still, uMich is expected to release on the 18th and I can’t imagine they’re the only ones, so I don’t think the offices closing on Friday is evidence enough that they’re going to release earlier than that.

What I don’t get though is what the hold up is. There was some speculation all week (and maybe even into last) suggesting they were pretty much done and just waiting on FinAid, but if that was the case they shouldn’t be so concerned to get the date in. Others suggested it was the interview, but given the little influence it has I find it hard to believe that they would hold the whole process just for a handful of applicants whose interviews haven’t been submitted yet. Even then, they could work with the interviewers to establish a new deadline and publicize that, since they surely are almost ready to go other than that small group.

That, or saying they had finished their decisions was just extremely wishful thinking. It shouldn’t take two weeks to figure out a few hundred estimated FinAid packages, right? It should just be a pretty simple plug&go operation I would think.