Princeton University Class of 2016 SCEA Thread

[speachy]

Just for the record, Stanford does have likely letters. My sister got one last year; I think one of her friends did too. Neither were for athletic recruiting or anything though, but they should send those if they send general ones too.

[rew2402]

to the ACCEPTED - congrats guys!
to rejected/deferred- am sure, ull end up in a good place for sure!! good luck
and heres my question to the all the accepted people:
so, what was ur SAT 1 score and the ECs?
also, to the international students who were accepted- what were ur stats?
i know guys, they are somewhere here itself (@the stats) but i tried reading pretty much the whole thread but alas! nothing was to be found (or maybe i skipped some pages or somehting :\)
anyway, thanks!

[lTortle]

Deferred. Looking at the sheer amount of deferrals I don't know if I actually have a chance in the RD round...

[AsianBoy88]

I agree with you that some numbers should not be taken as face value. The same logic applies to the ranking numbers. I believe the ranking is even less reliable. It is based on so many subjective numbers. Therefore, even though Harvard and Princeton ranked 1 or 2, that don't mean they are any better than Yale, Stanford, or MIT. Selectivity can be more objectively evaluated by class ranking, GPA, SAT, SAT II, etc. When you look at those numbers, Yale comes on top most of the time. The bottom line is that it is pointless to put a ranking on the top 4 or 5 colleges. They are pretty much the same, each has its egdes in soem areas. It is kind of a fool's game trying to say one is better than the other. US News should just quit doing that and creating the illusion that the ranking actually means much.

[Alumother]

Mathgirl! If you attend Princeton, we, the community, are really lucky.

[mathgirl21]

Thank you very much Alumother! I am incredibly honored that you think that much of me. I hope you and your family have a wonderful New Years!

[beajalles]

Fellow deferees: who else is nervous for 29th March?? Yay for another 24 days of waiting....

[decillion]

I'm kind of a loser for posting this NOW, but I just found this:

So I guess my ballpark estimates for Princeton SCEA statistics is that out of the 3,547 applying, at least 675 students will be admitted with no more than 750 (unless the aspect of protecting yield really makes that much of a difference for Princeton, which I don't think it does... but I may be proven wrong).

If you want my random, instinctual guess for the number of SCEA admits, I'd say 723.

I was off by 3. HOLY COW.

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