<p>From the Princeton website:</p>
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<p>So the consensus seems to be scrap EA, study for Dec subject tests and apply RD?</p>
<p>Yes. But I would also consider if she should put in an EA app someplace else where subject tests aren’t required, maybe someplace further down on her list that offers EA. A few schools even have a later EA round (not Nov 1) – I think an example would be Dickinson. What does her complete list look like?</p>
<p>@intparent, that is a good thought. Her reaches are Princeton, Penn, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT. She wants to do engineering or applied math. She’s thinking of Vanderbilt also, but they have ED, not EA.
She picked those reaches based on Generous FA + Extremely Well-Regarded Engineering Programs.</p>
<p>Of the 3854 Princeton EA applicants, 714 were accepted, 3042 were deferred, and 49 were rejected. You have to wonder what those 49 did to move them from the defer pile to the reject pile. </p>
<p>These figures were released last winter after decisions were released. Figures may have been updated since.</p>
<p>Agree with intparent & Falcon, and others, above about strategy.</p>
<p>What are her non-reaches? </p>
<p>Her non-reaches are Univ of Pittsburgh, UMCB, UA, Miami-Ohio, Temple (safety)</p>
<p>Sorry…what is UMCB? And is UA University of Alabama?</p>
<p>UA = Univ of Alabama, UMBC (my typo!) = Univ of Maryland Baltimore County
Sorry!</p>
<p>So Miami-Ohio has an EA option on December 1, she should definitely make sure she gets her application in for that. Pitt is rolling admission, so she may already have that one in, but if she doesn’t she should get it in. And am assuming UMBC is University of Maryland - Baltimore County. UMBC has a Nov 1 EA date, too. (Again, since it is a public university, maybe she has already done it). Just saying, if there is an EA option for other other choices, she should get her applications in for them. </p>
<p>Yes, she has UMBC, Pitt & Alabama done, & Miami planned for Dec 1.
I forgot another one because she is already working on it - Villanova - her target is Dec 1 also.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reminder.</p>
<p>The more I think about it the better studying for Dec 6 SAT Subject test sounds. She can still hit submit before on her reaches as long as it’s marked RD, right?</p>
<p>Edit - just double-checked the Villanova page - they actually have EA Nov 1, which she wasn’t going to do. I’ll ask her if she wants to shoot for it. I don’t know why I was thinking they are ED.</p>
<p>Sounds like you are on top of those other dates. 
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<p>Regarding submitting the other RDs, waiit until the scores are available, or as close as she can before hitting submit. As long as she hits submit by a couple of days before the due date (which I always recommend because the common app does go down sometimes on busy days), it won’t make any difference. You don’t want them reviewing her app until she has better scores to go with it anyway, so I would wait until near the end to submit. I would put a note in additional information that she will be sending additional subject test scores from the Dec. 6 test date, too. So if they do look at it before those scores get there, they know that.</p>
<p>Tulane for EA. App is free, large merit awards for high SAT scores, although I don’t know if 2120 will be high enough.</p>
<p>@CT1417 Just had a quick look - and their EA is Nov 15. But New Orleans seems so far from us (Alabama is already soo far)
Thanks - I’ll ask her.</p>
<p>Re: the Table at <a href=“https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-subject-tests-2014.pdf”>https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-subject-tests-2014.pdf</a>
Would a seasoned poster clarify how, if a student scores 800 on Math 2 test, then according to the Table, 81% of students scored lower than that 800? Thanks.</p>
<p>@perseverance1 – thanks for that link. I hadn’t realized the 2014 data chart had been posted yet. </p>
<p>Your explanation above is correct, at least as far as I have been interpreting these charts. Last year, 83% scored an 800 on Math II and the year before, I think it was 87%. The self-selecting population of test takers seems to be getting better at achieving 800! Also, approximately 4000 more students took the Math II this year.</p>
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<p>Essentially, what it means is that 19% of the test takers achieved an 800. As 800 is the highest possible score, it is impossible to creep into a higher percentile. Therefore, the 81st percentile is also the highest percentile.</p>
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Actually, this means that 83% scored lower than 800. </p>
<p>@sherpa—SORRY! You are absolutely correct. Shouldn’t reply on the fly. 17% scored 800 last year and 19% scored 800 this year.</p>