Chances for Princeton

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>I made one of these threads as a junior, but now I have all of my stats finalized. So here we go:</p>

<p>School: Competetive Prep School in Pennsylvania</p>

<p>GPA: 4.1 UW 4.27 W
Rank: School doesn’t rank, but I know I’m top 5%.</p>

<p>SAT:
CR - 770
M - 800
W - 720
Combined - 2290 (1570 CR+M)</p>

<p>SAT II:
Physics - 800
Math II - 800
Math I - 800
US History - 770</p>

<p>Activities:
Mathletes
Academic Competition - Varsity Captain
Jazz Band - guitar
Honors Band
Varsity Water Polo - manager
NHS - math tutoring chair
JV Soccer - Captain
JV A Lacrosse - Captain
Club Soccer
Student Council (10th grade) - events chairman</p>

<p>Award/Honors:
Mathletes - top scorer on school’s team
-selected to All-League Team (winner of city Public v. Private Championship)
National Merit Semifinalist
Varsity Letter - Water Polo
AP Scholar w/ Honor
Academic Excellence in Modern Language Award
2007 National Spanish Exam - Bronze Medal
High School Egg Drop Contest - 1st Place
Merit Scholarship to high school</p>

<p>Financial Aid: very important</p>

<p>I want to study engineering, and I’m a white male.</p>

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<p>“High School Egg Drop Contest - 1st Place”
wowwieee, congratulations!! jkjk</p>

<p>on a more serious note, great scores, decent ecs (would you say that math is your focus?)… i think you will probably be very competitive!</p>

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<p>Haha, you’re the second person whose commented on that egg drop award. Do you think I should omit it from my app (does it just look stupid)?</p>

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<p>uh…yeah! Take out the events chairman title thingy too - if you mention being on the student council at all, just leave it at that (in other words just say ‘student council’ and don’t elaborate.)</p>

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<p>Alright, thanks for the input.</p>

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<p>how can you be 4.1 UW GPA?
everything looks solid though…are you going to talk about your egg?</p>

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<p>^^that’s my question also. I thought UW is out of 4.0?</p>

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<p>didnt you post this on MIT’s forum as well? the egg contest looked familiar.</p>

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<p>Yes, I did post this on the MIT forum. I originally posted in the general “what are my chances?” forum, but someone suggested that I make a post for each of my target schools to get better responses.</p>

<p>To explain the 4.1 UW GPA; my school gives 4.3 for an A+, so that’s how I got that number, but now I’ve been told that colleges will look at As and A+s as a 4.0 (so my UW GPA is in fact a 4.0).</p>