Best way to get noticed/admitted?

psywar
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:33:52 +0000

@Serenity2019 I think @T26E4’s advice on taking a gap year is excellent, if you use it well. If you can have some interesting life experiences during that year, while maturing, it would help your admission chancesI believe. The college adcoms are looking to put together the best possible class, and while you maybe supremely qualified academically, your age creates a risk that they may not want, or need, to accept. They have thousands of other amazing candidates.

What if your admission essay next year talked about this difficult decision? How at your very young age you desperately wanted to go to college, but instead, realizing you might be better served with another years worth of life experiences and maturity, you instead did INTESTESTING THING X. This, in my opinion, would greatly impress the adcoms with your level of self-awareness and commitment to take additional steps in order to reach your goal.

Small note of caution, Princeton doesn’t take transfers, so be careful taking classes after you graduate from high school. Instead, consider doing something amazing and interesting for the life experience.