<p>brunei, not sure whether you’ve heard of it :)</p>
<p>brunei. i hear your country is very rich. i actually saw the royal brunei plane at an airport before.</p>
<p>tru, it’s really rich. but there are also those who are poor, like me ;)</p>
<p>and in this day and age, its actually a Monarchy still lol</p>
<p>haha well, albert, not all of the rich people at brunei can get into princeton (which you did). </p>
<p>so, congrats!</p>
<p>Thanks Aunt Jemima 1. Btw, I think I’m the only one in the whole country who applied to Princeton. Rarely do people here apply to US schools. They go in droves to the UK though. </p>
<p>ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:
Fee Waiver Used?: YES
SAT I (by section): CR 800/M800/W790
SAT IIs: Phy 750/Chem 750/Math IIc 750
ACT:
APs:
IBs:
GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: not applicable
Rank: school doesn’t rank
Senior Yr Courseload: 4 ‘A’ Levels with 2 ‘S’ papers
Number of Apps from Your School: two
Common or Princeton App? common ap.
Other stats:
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: some music ensemble, president of student’s council, loads of community service, science research
Job/Work Experience: none
Essays (subject and responses): engaging
Teacher Recs: no idea
Counselor Rec: excellent
Interview (feel and general location):Interview was for an hour at an american club. Went very well. interviewer requested i sent extra info to princeton through email
Hook (if any): i was the only applicant from my country so there was like zero competition. SAT 1 scores probably helped. overcame obstacles (socially disadvantaged because of ethnicity and having no citizenship). wrote about these in essay.<br>
Location/Person: brunei
State or Country:
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): some junior college in singapore
Ethnicity:chinese
Income Bracket: below 10k
Gender:M
Hooks: above
Strengths/Weaknesses: strengths were SAT 1, essays, recommendations, interview
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: the fact that no one from my country ever applied before?
Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>Best wishes to everyone else!</p>
<p>no one from your country ever applied before??? wow.</p>
<p>**Decision:ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: yes
[</em>] SAT I (by section):2310: m/c/w 760, 750, 800(9 essay) took once at the start of junior year
[<em>] SAT IIs: MII 770, PHYS 790, LIT 740
[</em>] APs:COMP A 4, LANG 4
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: ? no gpa but would be 3.9 or so
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: advanced phys, spanish lit, calc bc, english, psychology, independent computer
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 5, 3 accepted
[</em>] Common or Princeton App? Princeton
[<em>] Other stats: took AIME? got like a 4 on it, summer program at cooper union for engineering soph year, and summer program in math at columbia junior year
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][</em>] ECs listed on app: Host a greek radio program, 2 sports, math club, greek club… and a bunch of other stuff
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): not so good, but my engineering one was decent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Im not sure, but i got a math and spanish rec
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Im not sure
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): At an alums office, went on for 1.5 hours
[<em>] Hook (if any): First in family to go to college?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country: NYC
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):Private
[</em>] Ethnicity:Greek
[<em>] Income Bracket: I need financial aid
[</em>] Gender:M
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: Bunch of ECs, strong interest in math and science but still a well rounded applicant, weakness: i did my app realy late and there were a bunch of mistakes on it
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I have no idea, but i am really psyched, I loved princeton so much and i cant wait to go. I applied as an engineering applicant if that makes any difference. Im most likely going to stick to EE though Ive considered doing Physics.
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>Congrats grkscientist and sailesh (and others who have been accepted)!</p>
<p>sailesh–in response to #392:
well, then we can just listen to those 2 songs over and over.
sounds like a great 4 years to me! :p</p>
<p>well i guess i expected this…now i have to wait till spring with all the other deferies :(</p>
<p>DEFERRED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?:no
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 720 760 790
[<em>] SAT IIs: 770 bio 730 M1 720 Lit
[</em>] ACT:no
[<em>] APs:3 junior year 4 senior year
[</em>] IBs:no
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:3.94 uw
[</em>] Rank:no rank but like 4th
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: ap physics ap spanish literature ap calc ap literature music theory religion
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1 ed (me) and now like 5 RD
[<em>] Common or Princeton App?pton
[</em>] Other stats:?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] ECs listed on app:lots of vps fca math club etc. lots of soccer varsity volunteering with soccer clinics etc and a whole load of stuff
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: two research projects one in the arctic and the other with u del
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses):arctic research and added a letter about similarities between my work and that of a prof at pton
[</em>] Teacher Recs:great
[<em>] Counselor Rec:she loves me…ive been in her room daily for the past 4 years
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location):went twice as long as it was supposed to, lots of good convo
[<em>] Hook (if any):uh…done research
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country:nj
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):private college prep
[</em>] Ethnicity:white … doesnt it suck that ethnicity matters…
[<em>] Income Bracket:middle class
[</em>] Gender:male…white male from jersey…shoulda seen it comin
[<em>] Hooks:research
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses:strengths - well rounded really creative essays
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:lots of good canidates and no real hook, no legacy, no big donations, not the only one from my country applying[/li][/ul]Other Factors: i shoulda done the governors school it looks like lots of kids who got in did that… o well
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: im bummed, not that i got deffered, just that i have to wait till freaking spring to find out…i mean how many of us have been dying just waiting until now??? its gonna suck…and yeah the defferal isnt bad cause that means they still want you…they just dont know if they have room and wanna see how you stack up to the 17000 rders</p>
<p>good luck to all the defferies…congrats to the lucky ones…</p>
<p>Wow. Congrats all you acceptees!! Maybe if I hadnt applied Questbridge I’d be celebrating with you… But then again, maybe not/-:</p>
<p>Man, all the good ol’ names are slowly disappearing from CC… This is so depressing aah…</p>
<p>DEFERRED!!!</p>
<p>to be honest i’m actually happy to not be rejected. the way i see it, if the #1 uni in the freaking united states is STILL considering me that boosts my confidence for alot of the other places i applied to. it wudve been nice to be accepted but **** happens and life goes on and its time to look forward to letters from all the other unis come april.</p>
<p>yongest. toronto, how did you find out?</p>
<p>via mail</p>
<p>btw i live in dallas not toronto</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 780CR, 790M, 790W = 2360, single sitting, second time
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 800 Chemistry, 770 Japanese w/Listening, 720 French Reading
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] APs: Chemistry 5, Comp. Sci. AB 5
[</em>] IBs: N/A
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.00 uw, 4.46 w
[</em>] Rank: at least top 10% (according to UCs, at least top 4%)
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP French, AP Calc BC, AP US Gov/Pol, Honors Physics, Contemp. Lit, Distributed Processing @ community college
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 2 (or more?)
[<em>] Common or Princeton App?: Princeton App
[</em>] Other stats: Major was comp. sci.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] ECs listed on app:
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: professional web design, worked in restaurant
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): “Nations” motto (500) and “Who has influenced you?” (300) I thought that the first essay was good, and that the second one was blown off, but still decent.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One was excellent, didn’t see the other.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Decent, but I didn’t see it.
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): Decent, a bit awkward, though.
[<em>] Hook (if any): N/A
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country:
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, 500 seniors, competitive.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle class
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks: N/A
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: Lack of ECs; I had two of them that coincided with my desired major, and I had spent several thousand hours on these over the past three years. Unfortunately, I had no activities during ninth grade, and my community service hours were around 20. I did have several hundred volunteer hours as a programmer, though.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I didn’t take APUSH nor AP Lit, but I did study two languages, and take a community college course. However, it obviously didn’t make up for it.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I was prepared for a deferral; when I got the letter, I opened it up, confirmed that I wasn’t rejected, and life went on. No use worrying over it.</p>
<p>So sorry to hear that you weren’t accepted, whoamg.
You are obviously incredibly qualified for any school in the country and will probably end up at some fabulous college (even Pton!).
I admire you for taking the news so well.
Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Thanks! Now I just have to crack down on my RD apps.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 800 M, 790 CR, 750 W
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math L2, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] APs: 5 Calc AB, 5 US History
[</em>] IBs: None
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.8 W
[</em>] Rank: 2/324
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 4 APs (most) + Multivariable Calc and Diff Equations @ University
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1
[<em>] Common or Princeton App? Common App
[</em>] Other stats: Siemens Westinghouse Regional Finalist, fifth ranked debator in state
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] ECs listed on app: Research, Debate, 600+ hours community service, 3 years Varsity Tennis / Co-captain, some officer positions in various clubs
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Average
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Did not read
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Did not read
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): Not bad, not good
[<em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country:
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, competitive at the top
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
[<em>] Income Bracket: Top
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks: None
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: This is far too philosophical
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Siemens probably had something to do with it, though I don’t think my other stats are bad[/li][/ul]Other Factors: None
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: This is such a relief :)</p>
<p>congrats VR2011…Impressive stats!</p>