<p>I am currently a freshman at Princeton, and I got in with average grades.
3.5 GPA
2200 Sat
28 ACT
Actually got a D in Chem.</p>
<p>Yeaaaaaaaahhhh....... and what's your hook again?</p>
<p>How did you pull that off dude?</p>
<p>No elite private/ public high school, URM, legacy, athlete status, or hook?</p>
<p>I'd be rather surprised.</p>
<p>Or a troll.</p>
<p>I have a 3.5(92.4) at an elite public. I don't think thats even close to enough to get in.</p>
<p>How is a 92.4 a 3.5? Would a 58.5 average be a -2.0 GPA?</p>
<p>Then what is it? I have never ever dealt with letter grades and gpa's out of 4 so I wouldnt know. I believe a 4.0 would be a 95. Ok so fine I have a 3.6.</p>
<p>The OP is correct in stating that a 4.0 is not necessary for admission. Still, it helps. On its new website, the Office of Admissions has posted the following chart showing the likelihood of admission based upon GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>From those charts:</p>
<p>Of the group of
students
who applied
with this GPA----------This % Was Accepted</p>
<p>4.00------------------16.8%
3.90 to 3.99 ----------10.5%
3.80 to 3.89-----------9.6%
3.70 to 3.79-----------6.0%
3.60 to 3.69-----------5.4%
3.50 to 3.59-----------5.3%
Below 3.50------------2.7%</p>
<p>Of the group of
students
who applied
with this
combined
SAT Score--------------This % Was Accepted</p>
<p>2300-2400--------------26%
2100-2290--------------10.6%
1900-2090--------------6.5%
1700-1890--------------2.8%
1500-1690--------------0.5%
Below 1500-------------0.0%</p>
<p>So, if the OP is telling the truth, he or she was in a group of which only 5.3% was accepted based on GPA. Of the group that presented his or her SAT scores, about 10.6% was accepted.</p>
<p>The beauty of the Admission Office having published these numbers is that it removes a lot of the speculation on these boards that appears in the Chances threads. Clearly, your chances are better if you have higher grades and higher test scores, but students with offsetting attributes will still be admitted at the lower levels. There is no doubt that the process is competitive at Princeton and at all of its peer schools, but the process is not driven entirely by GPAs and SAT scores. Anyone interested in Princeton should apply, present the most compelling case for admission and then understand that the limited number of spaces available in each class necessitates a great many rejections. Hedge your bets. Apply to many schools with a range of admission statistics and hope for the best. Remember that Princeton turns away many candidates who would be capable of performing the work there. It is inevitable that a certain amount of luck will always be involved in gaining admission.</p>
<p>Is a 92.4 even in the competitive range?</p>
<p>Its ok if you dont belive me. There has been soo many people that could not belive that I got into Princeton because of my grades. There are many smart people that got straight A's in my class, but there are also people who got 3.4's and some C's. Princeton does not just want the average nerd. Even with my grades in high school i do have a 3.7 now. I went to two elite private schools.</p>
<p>Collegehopeful, you have a great chance if you essays are outstanding. Never sell youself to short, or you may never get to go to you dream school.</p>
<p>Thanks. The average accepted applicant from my school has a gpa of a 94.4 and a 2200 SAT so a 92.4 and a 34 ACT will at least put me in the range hopefully.</p>
<p>Princeton is random. Sometimes they tend to suprise applicants.
Applying to the Ivy League is like playing the lottery. A pretty accurate analogy if I do say myself.</p>
<p>Princeton accepts people with lower end scores if their situation dictates it. A memorable example is written by FortunaHope at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/686425-lessons-learned-during-admissions-cycle.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/686425-lessons-learned-during-admissions-cycle.html</a></p>
<p>I believe there’s a bad message being inferred here, though; that all you need to do is write some “magnificent” essay and boom, you’re in, grades and other stats be damned. It really doesn’t work that way, and those who try to tell people it does are either being disingenuous or delusional. I think some people are in denial and are disinclined to mention they are also a legacy, a recruited athlete, an URM, an oboe virtuoso, from an underrepresented state, worth millions, etc.</p>
<p>Princeton is just beautiful.</p>
<p>How true is it that Princeton and similar schools, like Yale, tend to choose from applicants with a slight bias depending on the school they went to? </p>
<p>If only one person from my school has gotten into Princeton, but many more into Harvard and Brown, does that mean that Princeton has some bias towards my school and is less likely to admit an applicant (me :P) from there?</p>
<p>No, you’re just paranoid. lol. Colleges rarely, if ever, ‘blacklist’ specific schools. Your school must have sent a significant amount of students who just failed or blew up a building or something to be ‘blacklisted’.</p>