<p>^Because every thread on this forum eventually turns into that, even (especially) the ones that are supposed to be on-topic. :D</p>
<p>Hahahah no joke. It fluctuates between this thread and the MARCH 29TH DECISIONS ONLINE thread. Even if we had a random comment thread, everything else would still be random.</p>
<p>But if you’re held upside down, isn’t it harder to drink because you don’t have gravity on your side? That apple juice prank is hilarious though. We should form the Princeton Prank Practioners and catch up to MIT and Yale</p>
<p>…and Caltech (they’ve got some pretty good pranks of their own).</p>
<p>I refuse to voice the name of that which has waitlisted I!</p>
<p>It’s true, MIT-Caltech is a good rivalry, but IMO the most impressive prank was Yale’s against Harvard… while Princeton sat back and enjoyed the show!</p>
<p>which was (forgive my ignorance)???</p>
<p>yeah, mine too. what was it?</p>
<p>Well… Yale copied Caltech’s Rose Bowl prank from way back when. </p>
<p>At the 2004 Harvard-Yale game, a buncha Yalies dressed up as the “Harvard Pep Squad” and passed out pieces of paper to Harvard fans, telling them that when held up simultaneously at a signal, the paper would spell out “GO HARVARD”.</p>
<p>Here’s what happened:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.harvardsucks.org/images/harvard_poster.jpg[/url]”>http://www.harvardsucks.org/images/harvard_poster.jpg</a></p>
![http://www.harvardsucks.org/images/harvard_poster.jpg[/url]](http://www.harvardsucks.org/images/harvard_poster.jpg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>Hahahaha. That is so awesome. Because really, there’s no way for them to KNOW what they’re spelling.</p>
<p>Very clever, those Yalies.</p>
<p>That was AWESOME. Bonus points to Yale.</p>
<p>well, I never posted this in November, but here it is now.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): CR: 800 WR:760 M: 720 (1 sitting, 1st and only time)
[<em>] SAT IIs: Math II: 770 Chem: 770 USH: 710
[</em>] APs: 5s: Chem, Calc AB, Eng Lit 4s: USH, Spanish
Will take this year: Calc BC, Phys C: Mech, Eng Lang, Macro, Micro
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: ~3.4 uw (?, my school doesn’t really give me this info and I don’t know how to weight)
[</em>] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 4 full credit APs, 1 half credit AP, 1 half credt honors and two arts (chorus and chorale)
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: just me ED
[<em>] Common or Princeton App?: Common App
[</em>] Other stats: coauthor on a scientific paper, AP Scholar with distinction, science olympiad thing (regional level), nm commended (MA is stupid), and my school doesn’t give awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: 500 hrs of scientific research, Teaching ESL to Latin American Immigrants, science team, squash (captain sr year), basketball, tutoring Chemistry, yearbook
[</em>] Awards/Honors/Distinctions listed on app: see above
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: The scientific research was all as an intern, but unpaid
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): pretty good. 1 about scientific research, the other about teaching ESL.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: never saw them, but I assume they were very nice, but not spectacular
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very good I’m sure
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location): went well. the guy was a doctor so we talked about science at Princeton for quite a while.
[</em>] Hook (special/unique achievements, etc): scientific research
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): tiny, private, 38 in my class, deflates grades
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Prospective Major: Biochemistry
[<em>] Hooks(background, connections, legacy etc.): my lab coordinator wrote me a really great reccomendation about how he thought Pton was right for me b/c his son went there.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: <strong><em>GPA</em></strong>, I don’t stand out that much because I’m sure plenty of applicant from MA did lots of scientific research and had better grades than me. My gpa is better than most at my school, but it’s pretty piddly compared to the heaps of 4.0 applicants.
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I was really disappointed then, but I’m ok now. I doubt I’ll get in RD, but it will be awesome if I do.</p>
<p>tedsfrozenhead, I think you have great stats and hope you are accepted RD.</p>
<p>Ditto to CMA.</p>
<p>^Ouch @ that GPA. Your other stats ARE amazing, so I guess that’s why you got deferred rather than rejected.</p>
<p>GPA is so weird. It’s just generally such a strange idea to me because NOBODY calculates it the same way. I know Princeton just does it themselves (and NO NOBODY PLEASE ASK HOW WE DONNNNNN’T KNOW) but it’s just strange to me that if you have all 90+ you have a 4.0.</p>
<p>yup, at my school they do not print +'s or -'s on transcripts, just straight letter grades…advantage? disadvantage? both?</p>
<p>^colleges don’t count +/- grades when they recalculate GPA so it’s not an issue</p>
<p>makes sense…before cc i didn’t even know that some schools gave %'s instead of letter grades!</p>
<p>haha really? My school would be so strange if they didn’t give letter grades. The different between a 90 and 100 is worlds away in my eyes.</p>
<p>the really stange thing is that I am second in my class to a person who took two semesters of college calculus offered by a local college at our high school, and he got C’s both semesters, and I got A’s, but since it does not go on our “high school” record, it did not affect his rank at all. so he remained #1.</p>