Does Princeton require first quarter grades from high school for REA applicants?

[lc2020]

Does Princeton require first quarter grades from high school for REA applicants? Thanks

[skieurope]

Require? No.

But they do selectively ask some applicants to send them.

[lc2020]

Thanks

[NiceUnparticularMan]

Here is what Princeton says about midyear reports:

https://admission.princeton.edu/apply/application-checklist

Midyear School Report. Please ask your school counselor or other school official to complete and submit this form when your midyear grades are available.

Here is what Common App says about the Midyear Report:

https://recsupport.commonapp.org/recommendersupport/s/article/What-information-should-I-include-in-the-Mid-Year-Report

Mid-year reports should be submitted as soon as possible after first semester or trimester grades are available.

OK, so are your quarters just intermediary grades on the way to a final semester grade?

If so, normally those would not trigger a Midyear Report, and so normally Princeton would not get them until after it makes REA decisions–unless it reached out and asked, which it can do. Note, though, Princeton could defer you, including specifically because it wanted to get a Midyear Report.

However, a few high schools are on what is sometimes called a trimester system, but sometimes they phrase this as there are three complete quarters during the regular school year (and the fourth is like the summer or such).

If you go to a HS like that, your counselor may automatically send a Midyear Report once the first trimester/quarter grades are available. Because as Common App and by extension Princeton think about it, that is when you are supposed to send the Midyear Report. And depending on the timing, Princeton could get that before they make a REA decision.

[lc2020]

Thank you!