Chances at Princeton?

Leyland
Fri, 30 May 2014 13:00:26 +0000

On the surface, it looks like you are on track for the Ivies. But, there is something that’s just not making sense about your story. You call your junior year “turbulent” but then say it was great fun (until you got your grades). You left, went back to China because it was vulgar to spend $50K in the US when you should have been fulfilling some social responsibility in China, but still came back and paid the $50K tuition. If that’s really how it was, then maybe you have a great essay about coming of age and transformation to go with your perfect SATs and now-perfect GPA. It it’s not really how it went down, then use your essay to explain why you went off the tracks and what you learned from it and don’t hide anything.