International student applying to Princeton

amptron2x
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:09:31 +0000

Even though your SATs and SATIIs are good, and your class rank is excellent, it is unlikely you’ll get into Princeton. The median (50th percentile) SAT M+V at Princeton last year was 1465 with 25% of the class scoring over 1560. The number of applicants who were #1 or #2 in their class numbered in the hundreds. In short, most of the kids who applied had SATs better than yours and many of them had class ranks and grades as good as yours, or better, and only 10% or so were accepted. Those towards the bottom end of the acceptance pool generally had some sort of hook - athletics, minority status, legacy status, big parental donation. Now, being from Norway is a bit of a hook, and it may help, but given everything else, I’d say your chances were slim.