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<p>Hey guys,
I have a question about applying to Princeton which hopefully someone from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences there can answer.</p>

<p>First off, does the school of engineering and applied sciences have any preferences when it comes to race, socioeconomic background, location of high school, etc? Your take on this please.</p>

<p>There are so few engineering students at Princeton as compared to some other schools. Does this reflect a bias against the science-oriented (in terms of classes and EC) student?</p>

<p>I'm a Asian male student at a top high school in california but my extracurricculars are really highly oriented towards chess (i.e.President of club, led team for 3 years, got second place at states every year, organized tournaments, volunteered at elementary schools for chess, etc) and science competitions (I placed really high on several competitions), do you think I would be at any disadvantage in applying as due to my ethnicity, gender, or the activities I have done as compared to maybe some of the girls who are presidents of the debate club, school newspaper, etc -type of students?</p>

<p>Thank you so much in advance.</p>

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<p>I’m numbering my answers in the order you asked the questions:</p>

<ol>
<li>Princeton practices AA, which means that underrepresented minorities like blacks and Hispanics get a boost. Asians are not underrepresented. Princeton also values geographic and socioeconomic diversity.</li>
<li>No</li>
<li>No but girls do get a bump if they say they apply to SEAS.</li>
</ol>

<p>If I were you I would relax a bit. Your questions make you sound like the next Jian Li. As I said above, Princeton values diversity, but that doesn’t mean that stereotypical Asian students like yourself don’t get admitted in healthy numbers.</p>

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<p>urg, sorry about that, its just that the stuff I see online has not been too good on the diversity count for Princeton.</p>