<p>i am trying to find out how the chances of an earlier app at one school ( MIT ) possibly affect acceptance at normal app time at another ( p-ton ). is there a correlation ??a rule of thumb ?? does it help, or hurt ??</p>
<p>the kid has good numbers, and things that set her apart well enuf i assume, or MIT wouldn't have accepted her back in dec. but, does that have any bearing on how p-ton will see her app now ??</p>
<p>let me say, in the previous post some guy call me a azz, and my kid a prick, so, if this is simply a bad question, or in the wrong place, or i have committed a faux pas of some sort for even asking please just say so and i will happliy go away from your forum - you don't have call people vile names about. i apologize in advance if any of the above are true. thanx ( hopefully )</p>
<p>Princeton won't know that your daughter was accepted to MIT early unless, of course, you choose (for some unknown reason) to inform them. Many students within Princeton's applicant pool were accepted to other schools in the Early Action round -- I know of several accepted Yale EA applicants who are also applying to Princeton. </p>
<p>If you chose to email/call Princeton and say "Hey, my daughter got into MIT early, wuz good?" then I have no idea what impact that will have.</p>
<p>it came up in the inhouse interview ( 3 hrs long ) with the p-ton gentleman. he seemed to think it significant, but didn't indicate in which direction - hence, the question.</p>
<p>I generally think it is wise not to mention to one's interviewer that you have already been accepted to a rival school-I think some restraint and modesty is an attractive trait. Other interviewers have told me that it is quite awkward when a student does that. </p>
<p>If you want to see how often a student admitted to MIT is also admitted to Princeton, look at the stats threads-very interesting.</p>
<p>bitti1, I went to go see the other post to which you were referring to, and I agree, there is no place on these forums for name-calling, it's a childish waste of space. That being said, in response to your demand for constructive criticism, I must say that I partly understand the poster's frustration. From the overt attempt at trying to sound polite (it really sounds like you're trying too hard in your other post, and at the end of this one, sorry) to the way in which you refer to your daughter's achievements (which are fantastic, you should be proud of her), your post basically has no point to it. To many CC posters (like me), it appears to be a post by another success-crazed parent that really only wants to brag about their child's achievements. Think about the question you asked: you could have made it much shorter, simply mentioning that you weren't sure whether it was a smart decision to mention acceptance at MIT in a princeton interview, but instead it rambled on and on about personal achievements that were not related to the question. And even then, so she mentioned it in the interview. So what? You can't do it over, you know her stats are amazing, and she's already been admitted at MIT. She has the same chance as the rest of us. There are way, WAY too many parents on CC who's posts seem to reveal that they have become obsessed with their child's applications to the ivy league, even beyond their children's level of interest in some cases, and that their entire lives at the moment seem unhealthily centered around the topic. I don't want to sound accusatory, I haven't read any other posts of yours, but that's the impression it gives off, and that's why you got a negative reaction.</p>
<p>^ I found her post to be quite balanced/can't quite find where it is that she "ramble[s] on and on about [her daughter's] personal achievements that were not related to the question". Half of her 8 line post was an apology in advance. </p>
<p>To the OP: As b'smom said, it would have perhaps been better for your daughter not to mention the MIT acceptance - I understand that we're all trying to get a step ahead of other applicants in this admissions game, but I'm not sure that would have been digested very well. None of us can give you more than shaky speculation on how Princeton will take it, but there's little you or your child can do about it now, and it's a possibility that the interviewer didn't even note the incident on his feedback sheet. </p>
<p>Go to the top of this page and open STATS profile; then you can enter Princeton or MIT class of 2011 or 2012 and then you scroll down and you will see cc members who were rejected and admitted, open their profiles and you will see they have listed their list of acceptances and rejections/it's not scientific, but it is interesting if you have nothing better to do. You will find lots of cross-admits but sometimes there are surprises.
Good luck to your daughter-she does have really impressive stats.</p>
<p>@India
ah, it would seem you've caught me with my pants down...I really think I meant to put "Many other posts", but hard to challenge the printed word I suppose...</p>