<p>do defer letters come later?</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got accepted!
To those deferees–I shall be joining you on the morrow.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred…</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?:
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 780CR 800M 770W
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800mathIIC 780chem 770physics 710US
[</em>] ACT:n/a
[<em>] APs: US-4 chem-5
[</em>] IBs:
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.62
[</em>] Rank: reported rank is top 10%, but actually rank #2
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: (hardest load in my school) 5 APs (bio, comsci, calc, physics, LA)
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 2
[<em>] Common or Princeton App?: Common App
[</em>] Other stats:President of 3 clubs, black belt, 13 years violin (national semifinalist for an award), can solve Rubik’s Cube in 17 seconds,
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] ECs listed on app: Debate President, Chess club founder/president, Asian Culture club president, JSA secretary, Mock trial expert witness, region/All state orchestra, Columbia Science Honors Program, tae kwon do black belt, Lakeland orchestra 4 year concertmaster
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: negligible (4 hours/week)…maybe I shouldn’t have listed it =/
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): probably the most unique topics in the application pool…but I am a horrible writer (see my “hooks” which apparently weren’t hooks) =/
[</em>] Teacher Recs: probably mediocre, in retrospect… although I expected them to be stellar
[<em>] Counselor Rec: should have been stellar, but I don’t know =/
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): 1.5 hours. I thought it was amazing =)
[<em>] Hook (if any): stayed in China for 5 weeks over the summer for martial arts training 8 hours/day…lived in very poor conditions (shower once/week, no plumbing, etc.) that was essay #1
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country:
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): mediocre school?
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian
[<em>] Income Bracket: $100,000+
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Hooks: see above
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: strength=uniqueness…weakness=bad writer and maybe the B+ in LA and B+ in french?
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: well…I DID mess up my application…(I filled out one section of the application without following the directions)…but I would assume that would result in a rejection…so I guess that had no bearing on my app. so defer probably because of bad essays and bad grades, or maybe a mediocre recommendation?[/li][/ul]Other Factors: the other person from my school is one of the best writers you’ll meet. maybe that made my essays look really dull and boring…but I thought Princeton didn’t compare applicants from the same schools, so maybe it made no difference?
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to all acceptees!!! I live your joy vicariously…and I hope to experience it first hand in April =) best of luck to deferred students!</p>
<p>I’m shocked @ pleonasm’s outcome. It goes to show that the process is random after the weaker applicants have been weeded out.</p>
<p>sorry pleonasm…now am totally scared…</p>
<p>so to clarify, is the deferral envelope small (normal envelope size) and not priority mail? or do they both come in big envelopes, but the acceptance one was just fatter?</p>
<p>I am too.
To make matters worse, my friend just got deferred from Yale.
Me = Completely scared now.</p>
<p>2 of my friends were deferred from yale today.
2 out of 2 didn’t get into UPenn yesterday.
another got deferred from georgetown.
2 out of 2 didn’t get into MIT</p>
<p>i am losing all hope</p>
<p>but congrats to all those who already got in!!</p>
<p>I had a friend rejected by Vassar, 1 accepted to Penn, and 1 deferred from Yale.
Going by this, I put my chances at 50:50. Otherwise, I put my chances at 0:100. Why am I even nervous? I know what the little envelope is going to contain…</p>
<p>oh yea
1 rejected from Columbia
1 deferred from Yale
1 rejected from Dartmouth
1 accepted Cornell
1 accepted Princeton <—amazing writer</p>
<p>My saving grace is being an URM. Hopefully I get in :)</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else though!</p>
<p>So far, we have 2 into Brown, 2U Penn, 0/3 MIT, 0/1 Columbia, and except for pleonasm’s post, I am still hopeful.</p>
<p>accepted! stats later</p>
<p>Stanford stats out in 2 minutes! Time to go bug people!</p>
<p>sooo nervous…I’m not even sure how they decide admission. I was looking at some of the stats, and some people who got deferred I would have thought they would have been accepted for sure.</p>
<p>Omg I am freaking out…will I get my decision in the mail tommorow? I live in MA. I wasn’t expecting it until Monday.</p>
<p>Can someone confirm that they were postmarked yesterday?</p>
<p>Oh and CONGRATS to those accepted and sorry to those deferred…I will probably be joining you tommorow…</p>
<p>I’m wondering if California will get letters Saturday (tomorow) or Monday…</p>
<p>Yep, on my envelope, it says the postmark date is December 14th =)</p>
<p>Fool, you have no idea how much I wish I were you right now. Who knows maybe tomorrow or Monday I’ll be content with being me? But right now, I’d love to be you lol.</p>
<p>so nerve wrecking…</p>
<p>I shouldn’t even be constantly refreshing the forum. I have to finish my stanford app…</p>