Do I have a shot at Princeton?

BKSquared
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:36:45 +0000

You definitely are in the “competitive” pool. Your chances are 0 if you don’t apply. Consider your state flagship honor’s program if it has one. Often those are rolling admissions. Consider REA at HYS, that may result in 1) acceptance which means you can just apply to reaches RD; 2) deferral which means you are in the ballpark for reach schools (but still have matches and safeties in your RD apps), especially Stanford which has a very selective deferral pool; or 3) rejected, which means you need to readjust your list for RD, especially Harvard which rejects almost no one historically in the REA round, and/or you have a defective LoR or essay given your stats that you may want to revisit for RD apps.