<p>^haha, "only 21,800 applicants"</p>
<p>April 1 is going to be a fun day....</p>
<p>Perhaps some apps were incomplete when that data was first formulated?</p>
<p>I believe class rank is very important. The ivies use it to determine your Academic Index, and you basically have to be in at least the top 10% to get in. </p>
<p>Even if it isn't (which isn't the case) these decisions could come down to hair splitting differences, which could be rank.</p>
<p>^ What, may I ask, is a good Academic Index?</p>
<p>around 210....that may be on the low end or the average i forget</p>
<p>seriously</p>
<p>230+ is good.</p>
<p>how do you calculate the academic index?</p>
<p>oh dear, not AI again!</p>
<p>I think that what they meant by "class rank doesn't matter that much" is: at some schools, getting one B can hurt you significantly in terms of rank. Whereas at other schools, you can get multiple B's and still be within the top 10 students. Thus, rank doesn't matter as much as course rigor and grades in those courses.</p>
<p>P.S I got in to yalez with a 211 AI!!!! <333</p>
<p>I love you, eating food! I don't think that AI matters as much, either. Anyways, I love you because, in the throes of a panic attack I calculated my AI, even though I had told myself that I wouldn't bother to, and I got a 212! I hope that we cross paths next year!</p>
<p>hey i got a 212 too...AI matters, not so much for the applicant but for the school and more so for athletics.</p>
<p>^ what do you mean?
If it matters for the school, then wont it matter for the applicant too?</p>
<p>Dammit, my grandfather taught me chess and I didn't write about it!</p>
<p>Wow. I really am starting to hate Andover, Harvard-Westlake, Buckingham Brown and Nichols, etc.</p>
<p>Stupid rich kid prep schools. Please limit the number of people allowed into Princeton from these places. 8 kids from Harvard-Westlake got into Princeton in 2006.</p>
<p>^ Hey. They are not stupid, and there are definitely financial aid for those who can make it there. And limiting the number of people is definitely unfair to those who went prep schools.</p>
<p>Plus, 8 people from Harvard-Westlake is not a big issue. My school's Junior College section has 5 who went Princeton last year and mind you, 42 to Cornell, and a ton of others who went Oxbridge. and please, it is NOT a prep school. It is not even in US, which means all the applicants are international, which then means its harder for my schoolmates to get in the top schools. 8 people is honestly not something to be scorn/debate/interested at.</p>
<p>It's less important for the Applicant becuase all of the students have to average something (each school has a different average). Most kids who actually apply have high enough AI's so it wont effect the school.</p>
<p>It comes to athletics because the average of all the athletics at a school can not be more than one standard deviation away from the schools average. Lets say Princetons average is 220 with a sd of 10. The athletics of princeton can't be lower 210, individuals can have a AI below 210 but athletics as a whole have to average 210 or higher.</p>
<p>Thanks, Poisonous (OP). This is one of the more entertaining and unique threads in here in recent memory. Oh, and in a related story, I understand Princeton has a recent opening in its Admissions Dept. ;-)</p>
<p>Don't you mean in the Wilson School? Or am I missing something?</p>
<p>haha OP anything else interesting from your princeton visit?</p>
<p>Funny thing. I talked about chess with my father and national ocean science bowl/ bio oly</p>
<p>Well, I do have an art supplement… “is wondering if that helps” :|</p>