how bad is a 3.89 GPA for princeton???

T26E4
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:43:50 +0000

@Ilovediana: May I disagree with you on this statement? "Please keep in mind that I’m an asian male(I know that will have a huge effect) " So am I.

The huge effect will neither be your gender nor your ethnicity. It’ll be whether or not you can distinguish yourself – i.e. not be boring. The anti-asian line is BS in my opinion. I applied to several top engineerng pgms and two Ivies. All accepted. My GPA was similar to yours, my SATs were about the 30th percentile of my fellow students at my eventual HYP alma mater. But I had an unusual and compelling narrative along with my proven academic potential and drive (most rigorous curric from an inner city magnet school). Can you be interesting? That’s the real question.