Summer Activities and Admission

Colleges & Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Did you guys make your summer activities short answer creative? Mine is very straightforward, but if we're supposed to make it more original, I'll revise it.</p>

<p>Also, is it really difficult to get into Princeton if someone from your school was already accepted? My best friend applied to Princeton during early admissions and got in. Although my grades and my SAT II scores are better (our SAT I scores were the same), I am concerned. My school is small (only 180 students in my class), so I'm unsure if Princeton is likely to accept two of my class's students.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>Mine was straightforward.</p>

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<p>Mine was pretty straightforward. I mean, it wasn't a bulleted list, but it wasn't anything of the flowery sort.</p>

<p>And Princeton says that it does not limit the number of applicants it will admit from the same school. All applicants are looked at "independently" and in the context of all other applicants, not just within their particular school.</p>

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<p>yeah, i wrote like a 250 words essay on it... but it told me to shorten it. Mine was VERY straigthforward but i managed to put in something which i learned on one of my "escapades" ...</p>

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<p>I wrote a bulleted list. There wasn't room for anything else on the paper app.</p>

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<p>Mine was a straightforward list of all my summer activities, without the line breaks.</p>

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<p>thank god! i was worried about mine since it was straightforward. but now i feel reassured! :)</p>

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<p>200 words straightforward.</p>

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<p>Does anyone else have a response to my admissions question?</p>

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<p>umm i was involved w/ one major activity so i worte aparagrapha bout that, and aparagraph about the otehr, it was kinda long, hopefully not bad tho</p>

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<p>im also concerned about ED acceptances making my chances more difficult. One kid at my school was accepted ED. My SAT I score is 130 points higher than his, my GPA is higher and I've taken more AP/IB classes than he has. Will Princeton be reluctant to accept me since they already have someone from my school?</p>

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<p>As my son said to a classmate who had the same concern, "It's not me you have to worry about, it's the 13,000 other kids that applied." Kids tend to worry about the kids that they know that applied, but they are really competing with the whole applicant pool. If they want you they'll take you, no matter who else applied from your school.</p>

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<p>Princeton says it looks at each candidate individually, so it shouldn't matter if you go to the same school as someone who has gotten it.</p>