@Trackislife2016 SAME!! I’m hoping that imget in early; I’m pretty close to the walk on standards and think j can hit them!!
I left my home at 13 to pursue a better education, first to New Zealand, then a year later I transferred to US. My parents barely knew anything about foreign schools, and they are both retired, low-income. For the past four years I have been alone, abroad, and rootless. When I get my decision back on Wednesday, I won’t be able to tell my parents since they’ll be sleeping in another land. I guess I’ll cry whatever the decision may be, for all the hardships I’ve overcome by myself in these years, and I believe they will become valuable lessons that accompany me wherever I go. While I know that my chances of getting in are dim, I sincerely hope all of you incredible individuals here on this thread to get in. You guys just conform to all of my ideal images of Princeton students, high-achieving, humble, and extremely supportive, and simply reading your posts makes me want to befriend with each of you. If we do meet in the future, I hope we still remember this thread and how an amazing community it used to be.
Sorry for being so emotional all of a sudden, I guess that’s because the supportive atmosphere here somehow penetrates me and shatters the self-protective wall that I’ve built in my heart.
@QQ20bj wow, thanks for sharing your story. You sound like an incredible person and I’m sure you’ll go far in life no matter what. Good luck!
@QQ20bj you honestly sound like an amazing person and I wish you the best of luck for Wednesday 
@QQ20bj You seem like what you describe as the ideal Princetonian: humble, supportive, and probably very accomplished. I wish you the best, both in college and anything else in life.
Hey everyone, just curious, Does Princeton use the Academic Index score to rank all applicants “academic stats” ?
I heard that it was used at first for just athletes but is now being used for everyone. Here is the link to the calculator:
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index_calculator/
Also, I think this number would be useful in the decisions thread, as it takes the gpa, sat, and sat II scores and combines them to make an uniform metric. What do you guys think?
(For ACT takers, there is a conversion, I believe you take the ACT score and multiply it by 22.223 to get the equivalent SAT score)
Best of luck everyone! We’re in this together!
Also I’m wayyyyyyy to anxious for wednesday. I hope I don’t get a lot of HW that day, I get home at 2:45, so I’m going to log on and hope for the best.
I think my GPA is too low and possibly a dealbreaker, my scores are typical Ivy except for my Math II, but my ECs are pretty good (I lead 230,000 STEM students in an organization I’m not going to name for privacy reasons, am on the BOD for my state in that STEM org, manage a $250,000 fund for the ACS, may be casted on Intel’s Greatest Makers TV show for an invention that I’m making with several million dollar investors, I build sport airplanes and flight sims at my local airport, I founded my schools Aerospace Club, + several National trophies in STEM competitions) I’m applying to Aerospace so hopefully this weighs heavily!
I’m hoping my ECs outweigh my subpar GPA (its on the cusp of being unacceptable for an Ivy, and its because of 2 C+s in a class that was wayyy too hard at my school but I got a 4 on the AP exam, a 730 on the subject test, and the teacher wrote my rec) what do you guys think?
If I get rejected, I don’t know where else I would go besides my state schools, and maybe Georgia Tech? where do you think I should apply?
I’m not sleeping tonight.
@sr71blackbird I would say maybe apply to Emory? or Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon… All great schools, but also look into what you want to study.
@52balletvieta Hey thanks! It really depends on this decision but I am probably going to apply to at least one of those 3. I toured Carnegie Mellon though and didn’t really like it, it was too clinical (I went during the summer so maybe that’s why), but I can see the appeal. Thank you!
Someone at my school got into Penn today and I was so happy for her! I just want to hear back from Princeton now! I’m trying not to get my hopes up but at the same time not get sad.
What sucks is that I’m gonna find out during class at school because 3pm EST is 12pm where I live and I’m gonna be super nervous all day!
@sr71blackbird No problem! Ive never been to Carnegie, but I have a friend waiting on her decision for their computer science engineering program that comes out tomorrow. I’ve spent so much time on CC that I’m just now starting my hw thats due in 15mins. Sigh…
Just curious, is anyone taking the ACT tomorrow?
@neptunepaw I’m not, haha but are you? Im surprised if anyone is still up, besides west coast people.
So far at my school, there was a kid accepted at Wharton and another at Harvard.
Really happy for them, but honestly it’s making me even more nervous for Wednesday… [-O<
Shout out to all the overseas kids who have to wait till Thursday and are dying even though it’s technically the same time…
@sr71blackbird I think they may use it for some ROUGH estimates but I don’t think it’s a very big part of the admissions decision. Mine is above Princeton’s supposed average (I’m 233, Pton average in 2010 was 228) which is reassuring but given that when I dropped my GPA down from the 3.9-3.99 range to the 3.5-3.59 range I still ended up with a result of 227, and I just can’t imagine a 3.5 would go without scrutiny.
Personally while it’s nice that I would be considered “above average” in my metrics I also would prefer them to look more closely at individual scores, since I’ve got 800s on both Math SAT1 and the Math 2 subject test and a 770 in Physics, and I’m going for a BSE. My other scores are still passable for Princeton (740CR 690W) but in my zone, I’ve got a nearly flawless set of tests.
@52balletvieta It’s the anxiety that gets you!! My friends got into Wharton, BU, Brown, and Duke, and I’m just going to show up with my deferral… and I just reread my app and I couldv’e put better ECs down under the 10 given, but instead they’re hidden in my resume…
Aww @sr71blackbird I understand!! I looked over mine again and I remembered this internship I did in China haha oh well… Maybe next time, but hey, even with a deferral you still have a chance!
Urgh…I just realized that I also had to submit W-2 and tax return documents… I never got an e-mail about them. I am an international applicant… What should I do? Anyone have an idea? Should I just send them as soon as possible, like now?
Yup. I’ve had friends (at my school and elsewhere) get into Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Brown, Amherst, and Penn. I’m basically dead