<p>As SCEA decisions from Princeton are getting closer I would like to hear from you. We know the chances are small, but hey you never know Here are his stats, your comments will be appreciated.</p>
<p>4.0 GPA - 4.85 weighted
top 1.2 of class - rank 10/851
SAT: 2220
ACT: 32
SAT II: Math 2 790, Chem 760, US Hist 740
AP courses taken: Human Geo 5, World Hist 5, Chem 5, Calc AB 5, Eng Lang & Comp 5, US Hist 5
EC’s: Swimming, swimming, swimming!!! 7 years of insane hours in the pool, lol
year round club swimming 2007-2013
HS varsity swimming 9-12 grades
HS team captain 2013
3 time individual district champion, 4 times individual metro west conf champ
AA times (50 free, 100 free, 200 free)
HS Varsity water polo 10-12 grades
Metro and district champions 2012-2013, Regional champions 2013
CIS international council
Summer job as a lifeguard summer 2012
Awards and recognitions: Scholar-Athlete of the year 2013, academic AA,
AP scholar with distinction, Spanish honor society, Beta Club, Mu Alpha-Theta,
Rho Kappa
Volunteer & Community work: Swimming special olympics 60+ hrs,
Give Kids the World 50+ hrs, Surfrider foundation 25+ hrs, Relay for Life 15+ hrs
Foreign travel: EF tour to China 2012 (Beijing, Xian and Shanghai)
EF Tour Eastern Europe 2013 (Germany, Check Rep, Poland and Hungary
Japan 2013 - Kakehashi project</p>
<p>This year he’s loaded with 5 full year AP’s, 2 half year AP’s and 2 full year honors. So far all A’s.</p>
<p>The numbers are fine but unless he’s recruited for swimming I really don’t see it. It seems like he doesn’t have academic interests other than doing well in school.</p>
<p>Wow…this is CC…yes, you would expect everyone to say no chance unless they are a 2300+,4.5+ gpa. Spending that amount of time in the pool takes a huge commitment and time and kudos to your son for doing so well academically with all that swim commitment. So he wasn’t a potential recruit by Princeton? Can’t say for his princeton chances obviously but he sure has a shot at a lot other schools, with that level of swimming.</p>
<p>@Falcon1, no, he’s not. He doesn’t want to swim in college, very tired of it:( @Alexmer, I raised him to be an all around kid. Being around ONLY academics is just not right in my opinion. What kind of fun youth is that? @Dragonflygarden, they were not vacation trips. They were educational trips part of his magnet program. @fall2016parent, thank you for understanding. The hours in the pool takes a huge commitment and I’m very proud of his achievements.</p>
<p>Most of the responses youve gotten here have been from high school students. Please ignore them.</p>
<p>Comments that hes competitive in all aspects except SAT scores, when his SAT scores are 2220 (a full 40 points below the midpoint, which is an insignificant difference 4% of those who applied with scores of 2080 or below are admitted, by the way) show that these are coming from people who have no idea how Princeton admissions works.</p>
<p>In the 1990s, a chapter in a book was written after an extended interview with the Dean of Admissions at Princeton. At that time, it stated that each applicant was rated on a 1 to 5 scale academically and non-academically, and each of these sides was weighted equally. That weighting may have changed somewhat, but I doubt it.</p>
<p>Chance threads are worthless for most schools that have any degree of holistic admissions, because no one on this board can read an applicants entire file or see collateral material. Comments made from high school students are not only worthless, they are damaging, because they can give applicants a false sense of hope or can discourage an applicant who could get admitted from applying.</p>
<p>Please, high school students, dont comment on chance threads unless you can provide specific information, such as the entire profile of the kid who lives next door to you and got in, complete with that kids essays, recommendations, and art portfolio. Youre doing more harm than good.</p>
<p>Saona, bear in mind that with Early Action, those who get in are either athletic recruits (whose applications were prescreened and given a thumbs up after communication with the coach long before they formally applied) or those who would absolutely get in come Regular Decision time. Princeton doesnt really need to fight for students like the many schools that have Early Decision do. In other words, dont take it as an insult or as a rejection if your son is deferred. It simply means that he wasnt a shoe-in.</p>
<p>Definitely a college like UNC,Duke but not Princeton. Unless your the next Michael Phelps its gonna be hard. But hey you might make it in keep up hope dude :D</p>
<p>The statistics you cite are not from the university, but are “Parchment Member Admissions Statistics.” These are statistics from those who signed up for Parchment and self-reported their results on Parchment. These are by no means representative of the entire applicant pool. Parchment’s reported applicants have a 22% acceptance rate and a 31% yield rate. These differ so much from those of the actual Princeton pool that they make it clear that you are dealing with a non-representative sample. There are numerous other statistical problems with Parchment’s methods of gathering data, but I won’t get into them here. Statisticians will warn you from drawing conclusions from non-verified, non-representative populations, yet Parchment presents these stats anyway. </p>
<p>They SAT midpoints for enrolled students are 750 CR / 755 M / 750 W = 2255 median. </p>
<p>I have been interviewing applicants who apply to Princeton as an alumni interviewer for 30 years. I’ve interviewed many excellent kids who didn’t get in and a few excellent kids who did get in. I don’t claim by any means to be an admissions officer, and don’t chance people, because I know how unpredictable the process can be. I can tell you from doing this that 40 SAT points is not going to make much difference at all. </p>
<p>I’m asking that high school kids stop chancing people as well. It’s not beneficial, and can be harmful.</p>
<p>Your son’s GPA & test scores are fine but what does he want to study? No one could guess based on the info you provided. I hope his application demonstrated his passions.</p>
<p>Ah, now that’s better. For all I knew you were some other random person on here.
I’m not saying 40 points are a make-or-break difference either, just making that clear. Yet I’m sure a higher score is better than a lower one, considering the selectivity.</p>
<p>I’m also a high school student, so take my advice as you will, but I do think that your son has a good shot at getting in. He seems to have good stats and EC’s and he also has that URM admissions boost. My friend, currently a college freshman, is a URM who had near-identical stats (4.0, 2250 SAT, also very involved in school) and she got into every single one of the Ivies as well as Stanford.</p>
<p>I really don’t think that forty whole points on the SAT is an application killer, but maybe that’s just me </p>
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