chance a princeton-loverrr

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>chances. i just got rejected from stanford, yippeee. but princeton>>>>stanford, anyways! :D</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted; 4.4 weighted (10 AP’s total by end of senior yr)

  • catholic school in CA, generally sends 1-2 kids to stanford, and a 5-6 to ivies each year, but generally, most students go to UC’s/expensive and less selective privates/cal states
  • school doesn’t rank but should be ranked in top 3, if not rank 1, by end of first semester.
    AP Scores: from the past two years: Euro (5), US Hist. (5), Calc AB (5), English Lang. (5)
    SAT 1: 800 math, 800 writing, 770 reading (essay 12) - one sitting
    SAT 2’s: 800 math, 770 USH, 750 lit
    Academic interests: molecular biology, psychology
  • career options: pediatrician, psychiatrist, clinical psychologist </p>

<p>Extracurriculars:

  • Lots of music - flute - youth orchestra 1st chair, state awards, masterclasses, etc - sent in music supplement
  • 4 yrs hospital volunteering/executive board member of volunteers - over 200 hrs - wrote about this for my short essay!
  • research @ stanford (psychology) for the past two years
  • newspaper (4 yrs) - editor.
  • president of teen issues club @ school (member for 4 yrs)
  • other mumbo jumbo clubs that really aren’t impt.</p>

<p>Awards - academic:

  • ncte achievement award in writing
  • school writing award
  • national merit semifinalist, but who isnt’t…
  • ap scholar w/ honor
  • national honor society, csf, foreign language honor society, blah stuff that everyone has.</p>

<p>Recs:

  • should be glowing - one is from a science teacher who loves me and the other one is from an english teacher who nominated me for the writing awards i got
  • counselor: thinks that i’m very high-achieving/motivated - should be good.</p>

<p>Essays:

  • good, i think - i’m using the princeton app, so i wrote about a music performance for the choose your own quote one; and talked about a bk i read in english for the jane hirshfield one. my english teachers have all said they were “beautifully composed.” i’ve also rewritten them since i submitted to stanford.</p>

<p>btw. i’m an asian female. hah.</p>

<p>thankies!</p>

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<p>i’m at a loss as to why you’d be rejected from stanford. the asian female from cali definitely hurts. but i think you were unlucky not to get in. princeton’s tough. but i think you have as good a shot as anyone. surely if you apply to hyps, it’d be hard to see you getting rejected from all 4. i’ll be rooting for you.</p>

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<p>Acadec, go look at the Stanford SCEA thread and try to comprehend how they made their decisions. So many 2350+ applicants were rejected its ridiculous. Essentially, white/asian + 2350+ = instant rejection.</p>

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<p>lol, amciw, so true. i hate that though :confused:
and thx, acadec, i’ll be rooting for you too :]</p>

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<p>As someone who also felt the negative effects of that trend, I agree with you.</p>

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<p>amciw, i’m white + 2350+ and i got in…</p>

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<p>I know. That makes three people who fit those criteria, one of whom was a Vietnamese first generation whose parents made significantly less than 50,000 last year. You and Baelor can celebrate being the exceptions to the rule.</p>