<p>Hello CCer's! What are my chances of getting into Princeton through Single-Choice Early Action as a Hispanic?</p>
<p>Stats: </p>
<p>Class Rank: 7/590</p>
<p>Unweighted Academic GPA: 3.99</p>
<p>Weighted Academic GPA: 4.53</p>
<p>SAT: 2180</p>
<p>AP Tests:
European History (5)
U.S. History (5)
Chemistry (3)
English Language and Composition (3)</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Math Level 2 (780)
U.S. History (740)</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses:
AP Physics
AP English Lit
AP Calculus BC
AP Spanish Language
AP Statistics
AP U.S. Government/AP Microeconomics</p>
<p>ECs: </p>
<p>-President of Speech & Debate Team
-Founder & President of Mathematics Club
-Student Representative on School Site Council
-ICC Representative of Interact Club
-Volunteer & Community Service for the Boys and Girls Club
-Member of Compact Club
-Member of California Scholarship Federation
-Member of Engineering Club
-Member of National Honors Society
-Played on Freshman Soccer Team
-German School on Saturdays</p>
<p>Camps: </p>
<p>-Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference for 2011
-Californias Boys State
-Attended the Operation Catapult engineering summer camp at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Please let me know my chances! I would appreciate any responses!</p>
<p>I would say odds are okay. I wouldn’t really recommend Princeton EA, but rather some other school early decision, because you could use the ED boost. </p>
<p>Keep in mind doing EA (nonbinding) usually doesn’t effect your admit chance.</p>
<p>Don’t screw up the essays and make sure you ask the right people for recs, and you’re in.</p>
<p>Some tips: might want to consider retaking the SAT to raise your score if you’ve taken less than 3 times - Princeton does superscoring so it will definitely not hurt.</p>
<p>how can she/he be in for sure. Last year a hispanic, who got a 2400/1600 SAT/SATII, and way more APs than her/him, got waitlisted. Even minorities aren’t in for sure anymore.</p>
<p>Did he/she get into Harvard/Yale? If so, and if he/she applied via SCEA, then he/she too would probably have gotten in (SCEA does affect admit chances a little, Princeton will be much less worried about OP turning down Princeton for Harvard/Yale where he/she has strong chances as well). If not, he/she probably had bad ECs/recs/essays. Can you link me to his/her profile?</p>
<p>Anyway, IMO, OP should definitely only apply early to his/her #1 choice because he/she is very likely to get accepted. And it should be Princeton ;)</p>
<p>No offense to OP, but in all probability there will be other Hispanic students applying SCEA with higher than a 2180 and better ECs (OPs ECs are average to below average for Princeton). I’d say a good shot (~50%), but certainly not “almost for sure”.</p>
<p>Your profile is okay, but I’m gonna have to agree with the user above that somewhere there’s a Hispanic applicant with more impressive stats than yours.</p>
<p>And @SheepGetKilled, are you referring to silverturtle? IIRC, he didn’t mark Hispanic on his college apps.</p>
<p>There will be maybe like 30 Hispanic students with better stats and ECs than OP applying SCEA. All of them will have a very strong chance of getting accepted. Princeton takes more than one Hispanic student per year - closer to 150 of them. I feel very strongly that the OP will be in the top 100 of the Hispanic applicants.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your honest responses! I know I may get better chances if I applied ED to another private university, but would I get a smaller financial aid package? Financial aid is important to me, which is why Princeton (which has good financial aid) is on my list. By the way I’m male.</p>
<p>I am going to agree with scrivener on this one based on my experience with S1 (1/2 Hispanic) in admission two years ago. There are tons of very smart (and very well off) Hispanics out there. If you are low income and Mexican or Puerto Rican than I think that your chances will be OK. Otherwise the boost is very little.</p>
<p>I hope you get in. That said, if you can retake the SAT to achieve a higher Superscore, you probably should. Your SAT IIs are good and 2 of your AP Scores are good. You will need to set yourself apart in your essay. Write an essay that will cause admissions to remember you.</p>
<p>To some of those who posted here–being Hispanic is not a magic pill. There are many,many, many high performing Hispanic students. I know a 100% Hispanic student who applied Early to Brown last year with a SAT 2260 and did not get in.</p>
<p>Just to head off hostile responses–I am not Hispanic and I got into Princeton but decided not to go there.</p>
<p>Omit those 3s in Chemistry and English. They compromise your high GPA+ranking and reveal the absurd level of grade inflation at your high school.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you’re golden, on account of SCEA, strong work ethic, and respectable SAT scores–and especially if you attend an elite California high school.</p>
<p>“I know a 100% Hispanic student who applied Early to Brown last year with a SAT 2260 and did not get in.”</p>
<p>Thank you for drawing sweeping conclusions with isolated instances. Do tell–where did this student end up? Columbia? Dartmouth? Penn? Cornell? Williams? Amherst? Boo hoo.</p>
<p>“I am not Hispanic and I got into Princeton but decided not to go there.”</p>
<p>How is this relevant to the discussion at hand?</p>
<p>I still don’t see why OP is golden (and, once again OP, no offense is meant to you- you certainly have above average chances). Their SAT is below average, SAT IIs are (relatively) below average, and, aside from the camps, many of the ECs are “below average” (as far as ECs can be measured)- i don’t see deep levels of commitment. They are Hispanic, although, once again, this is not as big a hook in admissions as many believe it to be. Furthermore, SCEA has been discussed at length on this board as having no statistical advantage for the applicant. So why are they golden?</p>