This might sound bad but I don’t care if I’m low down on the Princeton team. If anything it would take the pressure of me to meet the coach’s high expectations and be a worthwhile recruit. Not AT ALL that I want to do this, but I could get injured and be slow and I wouldn’t feel like I failed anyone (but myself). So that doesn’t push me to Brown.
Thanks everyone for your help so far!
Harvard offers soft support, Princeton doesn’t. Penn has a solid transfer program, Princeton does not. Because one school does something one way, it does not mean the other does too.
Also, accepting a deferred student ahead of the timeline, even if they actually did so, is not reversing a denial. If someone gets rejected, that is it that year.
Thats the thing. You will have great results too, but its on you to embrace where the chips fall and roll with it. I worry that you have too many expectations/rationalizations that wont olay out. Princeton, as most schools, do not read applications in such a binary way. From our school (also a prep school) most of the kids accepted over the last handful of years were in AB calc, despite the fact that plenty of kids are in BC or even Multi.
This is not something you will be able to rationalize. You have to decide if you “need to know” or prefers to hop on some other train and surrender yourself to that experience. But you need to be prepared for things going side ways. They do sometimes. Its not the end of the world, but its a lot better if you have some choice and control over what that alternate path is so you need to play that part of the game now too.
Your heart is with Princeton. Go with Princeton.
Have a robust set of backups, but roll the dice. I know it’s hard to believe, but your life will be just fine if you end up at JHU, Northwestern, Swarthmore, Middlebury, etc.
Good luck and come back to tell us how this ends!!!
That’s fine as long as you understand the actual running experience will likely be different. I’d think you’d feel a fair amount of pressure if the Princeton coach advocates for you to his boss.
Wow.
Think we’re done here, folks.
Surprisingly guys I’m lowkey about to commit to Brown
Congrats!!
Buy your Brown hoodie and never look back.
I hope you have a spectacular experience!
I think now is a GREAT time remember, you are so fortunate with your upbringing, private schools and more.
Your problems really are minimal. not trying to downplay but there’s a lot of unfortunate people in the world. You aren’t one.
You’ll start a new family tradition at Brown - and you’ll have an open curriculum to boot so you can focus your studies where you want.
If you were playing a lottery, you clearly won.
Don’t forget that - best of luck.
Congratulations! Brown is an awesome school and I think you will be very happy there.
Wow.
Why?
ETA: I mean, what changed your mind?
This!!! Whatever decision, be embrace it and don’t look back.
And thanks for coming back and letting us know your decision.
So I have not committed to the coach yet. It’s just what I THINK I’ll end up doing.
My family actually is pressuring me to do Princeton but most everyone else says proooobably should do Brown.
I think you need to stop posting your inner thoughts here. This is very sensitive, and you don’t want to disadvantage your situation with either Brown or Princeton. Please be more discreet, for your own sake.
Edit: I see you have changed some sensitive aspects of your last post. Smart.
Hugs.
You don’t need to experience any regret– at all- regardless of what you decide to do.
Princeton and Brown have more in common than different. You will have a boring professor at some point, regardless of which you choose. You will have an amazing seminar or lecture whichever you choose- and you’ll look back on it and think “This class and this professor changed my life”. You will have a roommate or suitemate who is an absolute slob who you can’t stand until you become best friends, and you’ll have a roommate or suitemate who you adore until you both decide “We’re good roommates, let’s keep it that way”. And you’ll take a class thinking “this is what I want to do when I grow up” and by the end of the semester you’ll know ‘I hate this”– and you’ll take a class just because it fits nicely with your schedule and you’ll end up loving it and want to do more, learn more, stretch more.
Please don’t talk yourself into regretting whatever decision you make today.
I know it’s kind of normal for families to do but I hate when I see this. I almost want to knee jerk to whatever is the opposite outcome when I do.
I hope you can shut out (all) the noise and make the decision that feels right to you, both in certainty of admissions process and where you will be happy to spend 4 years - both of those are you, not your family, who will experience it.
Congrats! Seems to me like a solid decision you can be happy with. The family will likely come around. Good luck on the rest of the season.
You will be successful wherever you go! Please let us know what you decide to do. Everyone here is cheering for you!
Go for it if you like Princeton–and play your best for the rest of the season
So, it was mentioned that you have posted before. So I looked at your previous posts. It looks like you have started about 14 threads over the last couple of years and received somewhere around 350 replies. All of your posts have a pretty common theme, a desire to attend an Ivy.
My advice, for what it is worth, is to stop posting and make the decision that is best for you. You have received tons of advice. You have your parents and other family and friends. These discussions boards are very useful, but ultimately this needs to be your decision.
Also, this is a long journey and this is just one step. It seems really important. But whether you end up at Brown or Princeton or a backup, there will be bigger decisions down the road. And undoubtedly you will be well positioned no matter what you do now.