Very random letter from Princeton?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Dear murkywater,</p>

<p>Today, the Dean of Admission mailed you a letter offering you a guide to opportunities available at Princeton University.</p>

<p>You should receive her letter in about a week. If you would like to reply now and request your guide, please click here.</p>

<p>We look forward to hearing from you, and we hope you have a great summer.</p>

<p>Associate Director of Admission
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08542-0430</p>

<p>I received your e-mail address from a national student testing organization. If you don't want to receive e-mail from Princeton University, please let me know.</p>

<p>--</p>

<p>What's this for? By the way, the website didn't direct to 'princeton.edu'. It directed to another website 'discoverprinceton.org.' </p>

<p>Weird. Anyone else get this letter? National student testing organization? I get the feeling that this may have been through QuestBridge.</p>

<p>Can anyone else confirm?</p>

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<p>no thats from either PSAT or SAT testing, nearly everyone gets them.</p>

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<p>Okie doke. Thanks :D</p>

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<p>I got one too. But I have not had my name affiliated with questbridge. I think it is from PSAT scores because I accidentally indicated "French" as my major choice (instead of engineering) and the auto fill form had French filled in as my academic interest. A useful mistake finally.</p>

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<p>Haha Jeef I'm surprised you remembered that. And that is lucky about the useful mistake.</p>

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<p>I got that too... I don't think it's for either PSAT or SAT. I did not do hot at all on the PSAT. And my last SAT wasn't spectacular. Unless this letter was based on the June SAT, then I would be happy.</p>

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<p>Yep, got that too. Also not affiliated with QuestBridge, so it probably is PSAT.</p>

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<p>I got it too, lol. I think it's for th PSAT though, because I didn't take the June SAT (only the March one).</p>

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<p>My PSAT scores were very weak. Can you tell me a little about your backgrounds? Are you guys minorities? Low income? This information would be handy to figure out why.. because I don't think it was because of my scores, since they were absolutely dreadful.</p>

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<p>I'm white. Extremely so. I'm middle class too, so it's probably not that. If your PSAT scores were weak, maybe it's from SATs then. But maybe you think your PSATs are bad, but they're not ; )</p>

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<p>Think it depends alot on what various things you have been tested on, your name is sent, I accidnetally checked forestry as a major, went thru a 6-8 month period got nothing but environmental school things, studying manatees in florida etc some stuff about becoming a forest ranger.</p>

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<p>I got one too. White, middle-class... boring. I did well on the PSATs though (232). And my potential major was chemistry.</p>

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<p>I just missed the cutoff for National Merit but I had good scores. Putting "French" as my course of study for someone with an almost perfect math score probably tipped the bell with Princeton. Maybe we all requested something a while ago and don't remember it?</p>

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<p>My PSAT score was below a 200 and I got mail from Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. It doesn't mean anything. I heard anyone above the 80th percentile gets them so yea.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I heard somewhere on the Harvard thread that Harvard sends 70,000 letters like this.</p>

<p>Odd, though, I haven't gotten anything from Princeton lately.</p>

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<p>Why do they send out so many letters? Jerks, with all their selectivity rating raising.</p>

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<p>As a note to someone who asked before, I'm white, middle-class, and female. I put interested in math on my PSATs and got a 222. I'm guessing it was the combination of "female" and "math" that tipped it off.</p>

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<p>I hate the college process. its so random. This kid from our school got into Princeton with a 93 average, under 2100 sat and only took 1 a.p during his senior year.</p>

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<p>Come to think about it, I think I put Math too. And I'm a female... that's interesting!</p>

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<p>I put Computer Science and I'm female.. so I'm thinking that might be it.</p>