<p>some stats, so last year there’s about 5000 finalists.</p>
<p>lets say 3000 of them ranked princeton. </p>
<p>well only 31 kids matched Princeton last year…</p>
<p>ugh, ■■■.</p>
<p>^^^^ </p>
<p>first of all, there were only a total of 2470 finalists last year, so i wouldn’t be too hopeless…</p>
<p>it’s worth a shot</p>
<p>@raechelli: I submitted everything except the financial supplement. The financial supplement is submitted online and, as such, can’t be faxed or mailed. I sent everything but the supplement because I don’t want my stuff to be late because of some negligence on the part of UPenn.</p>
<p>hmmm interesting. last year, Princeton had the most matches with 31, topping all the other schools. Even though Princeton is probably 3rd if not lower in popularity (after Yale and one of Stanford/MIT) in terms of rankings…Princeton uses the QB pool for economic diversity more than the other partner schools…??</p>
<p>there’s still hope?</p>
<p>^^^^^^
CodeH, there were less than 5000 TOTAL applicants last year, and only 2470 Finalists. Just because it seems like alot of CC’ers have ranked Princeton, you have to remember this group is only a small sampling of Finalists. You also have to remember that of the 31 to Princeton, there were actually probably MORE matched than the 31. We can pretty safely assume that some that Princeton chose were also chosen by another school that was higher on their match list, therefore they would have been “matched” not to Princeton, but to the other school, and NOT included in the 31 figure. The numbers are not nearly as grim as you portray them.</p>
<p>An article from The Daily Princetonian had stated that less than 900 had applied through QB, so it would seem that only a little over 1/3 of finalists last year ranked P’ton anywhere on their list of up to 8 partner schools. We can also safely assume that some of those almost 900 opted out of the Match and only went through RD, as we have seen people on this board saying they might opt out.</p>
<p>whew, okay. now i feel a bit better. :D</p>
<p>why would people opt out of the match?</p>
<p>^To do Early somewhere.</p>
<p>Read an article that said Princeton will choose significantly LESS QB MATCHES this year - Princeton will wait for the Reg. Dec. Apps pool to decide admission offers.</p>
<p>For QB - Reg. Dec. willl be the best best chance!</p>
<p>(College has to PAY QB $$ for every MATCH - not sure but I think the article said $3000???)</p>
<p>I stand by my earlier projection that there will be LESS % QBMatches this year…I hope I’m wrong!</p>
<p>OH NO! That’s very bad news… I cross my fingers and hope not. </p>
<p>As for the Princeton Supplement, I chose the “pick your own topic” one…That means you can pretty much write about anything. I hope my creativity for that wouldn’t make me look less than other people who wrote about their achievements/current goals…</p>
<p>Has anyone heard about Stanford and their take on finalists?</p>
<p>anyone who faxed financial documents get a response? or a confirmation that they received the docs?</p>
<p>crystal, Princeton supplement doesn’t have a ‘topic of a choice’…do you mean the CommonApp?</p>
<p>GTC…ugh! WHY us… $%#&!</p>
<p>natim1: I don’t think you’ll receive a confirmation. I called about 4 different schools today asking if they received my faxes, and I could only get an answer from 2 of them. The other 2 said they were so swamped with QB faxes that there was no possible way for them to verify that your faxes were received, directly. Yale said this. The guy on the phone basically said that if they’re missing anything, they’ll give you a phone call. And that we shouldn’t worry. Yeah right…</p>
<p>All of you ranked Yale got a Yale ID number?
I haven’t got it as yet.
What’s wrong?</p>
<p>natim1, nope. don’t worry, they have a ton to get thru :D</p>
<p>@code H: Sure they do. They have the 4th topic on the supplement. Choose your own quote as a jumpstart. Aka, your choice 
Find a quote that has something to do with your perfect pre-written essay that’s more experimental/creative than the fail-safe type of essays (it could either go very well or explode in my face)…</p>
<p>“using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a jumping off point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation at the beginning of your essay”</p>
<p>kangaroo423: I’m sure you already know this, but did you double check to see that you ranked yale? If you did, and you still haven’t gotten it, try checking your old emails and your spam folder, maybe the recently deleted folder too. If that doesn’t work, call Yale tomorrow (I think you’ll get a faster reply by calling instead of by emailing.)</p>
<p>If it makes anyone feel any better, ds didn’t rank Y or P. :D</p>
<p>crystal91: so if we do use a quote, do we HAVE to mention the quote in our essay?</p>