<p>@loltoasty: I called today and we should email stuff to <a href=“mailto:uaoffice@princeton.edu”>uaoffice@princeton.edu</a></p>
<p>What do you guys plan on sending? Just a letter stating interest and updates? Anyone sending new info like additional recs?</p>
<p>It seems like some of you haven’t yet received the letter in the mail yet. It includes an information sheet that suggests, among other things, we should not send additional recs. Their suggestions seem a bit ambiguous, though…</p>
<p>I’d say Scholastics and state competitions are both update-worthy! I don’t have any new awards updates, but in my letter, I’m going to include a brief paragraph or two on some major projects (writing/directing musical and running poetry slam) I’ve been undertaking to wrap up my high school career.</p>
<p>My son is in a similar situation. He got waitlisted at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Duke. He was rejected at Cornell, Penn, and Yale. He got into Brown but their FA package was less than generous.</p>
<p>Princeton’s letter lists the number of students taken from the WL in previous years. These numbers are much less useful than the percentages. The Princeton Review’s “The 376 Best Colleges” lists under Princeton that 16% admitted from wait list. That seems high to me. Does anybody know?</p>
<p>You can find what the percentages have been over the years in the Common Data Sets:
[University</a> Enrollment Statistics « Office of the Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/]University”>University Enrollment Statistics | Office of the Registrar)</p>
<p>Part C includes info on how many accepted a WL place and how many were admitted from the WL</p>
<p>Thanks balletlover. That was very helpful. That 16% figure was correct for 2010-2011.</p>
<p>I ran the numbers for the last five years through my calculator starting with 2007-2008 and came up with 9.7%, 13.9%, 6.4%, 16.4%, and 2.2%, respectively.</p>
<p>These numbers aren’t high enough to be hopeful but they aren’t low enough that you can forget about Princeton. </p>
<p>Good luck to everybody.</p>
<p>Yeah, littlepenguin, I think Scholastic definitely counts…I was going to tell them about that! I was also planning on sending an extra rec, but it appears they don’t want them, so I wouldn’t want to bother the admissions staff.</p>
<p>Lynch112, thanks for the info. Last year’s number is…disheartening. I suppose there’s no way to tell now what the numbers will be, though; we just have to wait until May.</p>
<p>If you want to be optimistic, observe the pattern in the admit numbers: alternating between high and low! That’s just a random observation, though. SCEA could indeed change things dramatically.</p>
<p>Has anyone received the mailed decision letter? The only one way to confirm that you want to stay on the waitlist is through that card enclosed to the letter. I wanted to send them letter with my updates, so I don’t know… Should I wait for the letter?</p>
<p>yes! i received the decision letter like two weeks ago… and sent it promptly back stating my interest in the school! lol :D</p>
<p>Would it be a good or bad idea to mention scholarships from other universities in the update/interest letter? </p>
<p>I’m Canadian and got a full-ride scholarship to Queen’s University among others, but I don’t know if Queen’s is that well-known in the US (although it is the alma mater of Princeton’s current president!). That is not my only concern though – in general, will it help or hurt my application to bring up school-specific scholarships?</p>
<p>@balletlover - Congrats on your scholarship to Queens! It’s a great school! I’m not sure mentioning it will make a lot of difference in the admissions’ department’s eyes, however. From our experience they seemed mostly interested in how you would contribute to Princeton - academically yes, but culturally, athletically, socially etc too. Telling them about the scholarship probably would have a neutral effect. Pretty much every student will be strong in academics so the question is, what else do you bring? Do you have an area of research you’ve been working on and never mentioned before? A significant community project that has blossomed? Besides the classroom, what is unique about you? If you have those kinds of things to share, mentioning the scholarship probably won’t hurt. Best wishes!</p>
<p>Hi guys! I’m a senior writer for the Daily Princetonian newspaper at Princeton University. We want to do a profile on wait listed students, which will come out in September. We will not tell the Office of Admission who we are working with, so your participation will in no way affect your chances of getting taken off the wait list. But if you’re interested, and if you want you want to share your story, message me ASAP.</p>
<p>so…if i were to be accepted off the waitlist, is there any chance that i could apply for the bridge year program?</p>
<p>Guys…I hope the waitlist acceptance rate is 16.4% like it was 2 years ago. Wow</p>
<p>So I called the admissions office asking some general questions regarding the waitlist and the person on the line said they would start notifying students in June. Is this accurate? Are they already estimating an oversized class thus using the waitlist for cases of the “summer melt?”</p>
<p>On their common data set numbers no one got off the waitlist last year</p>