How much does legacy help?(Princeton)

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Just something for perspective - this is from another CC poster whose mom attended Princeton and who was rejected. She is from Idaho and applied this cycle:

SAT I (breakdown): 780M/790ERBW
ACT (breakdown): 35/35/35/34S
SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 US History, 750 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.34
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): weighted = 3/403, unweighted = 1/403
AP (place score in parenthesis): APES (5), World History (5), Comp Sci Principles (5), APUSH (5), Psychology (5), Calc AB (5), Physics 1 (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Spanish Lang, Econ/Open, AP US Gov, AP Chem, Orchestra 4, AP Lit
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, US Presidential Scholar nominee, some school and local awards (we don’t do those fancy ones in Idaho)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Competitive alpine ski racing – 8 years, 46 weeks per year, 4 to 23 hours per week; Orchestra – 8 years (2017-18 principal cellist, 2017-18 senior quintet member); NHS
Job/Work Experience: Concessions stand cashier at baseball stadium; lab intern at research university
Volunteer/Community service: 386 hours total; volunteer at community water resource education center
Summer Activities: see above
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9/10, really beautiful, made my parents and my English teacher cry (literally).
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): 10/10, my physics teacher let me read it and it was very flattering
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): 9/10, didn’t see the one from my APUSH teacher but he nominated me to be social studies student of the year last year so it should be good
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): not sure (my school is pretty big)
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): N/A

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