Please Chance me for Princeton

normanxi
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 03:26:25 +0000

You’re certainly a competitive applicant. Your URM/legacy status will definitely both help, although you shouldn’t lean on those, as you said before. I think you’re stats are fine - not the best, but probably around/above average. See if you can take a couple more SAT 2s and get above a 750 on each - a lot of my classmates at Princeton took submitted 3 SAT 2 scores. Your ECs are certainly more widespread than mine were, which is a good thing, although I think adcoms might question how comprehensive your internships were - you had so many over so few years that you can’t possible have done much meaningful work for more than one of them each year. I wouldn’t worry about that too much, though, since adcoms know most high school internships aren’t very deep.

My advice would be to try to get close to the teachers you plan on asking for LORs this coming fall, in the 2 months before Princeton’s EA deadline (assuming you’re applying early). If those teachers were from your junior year, go visit them, ask them if they need help with grading or running labs or whatever. If those teachers are going to be from your senior year, do your best in their classes, visit them after school, ask questions, basically do whatever you can to demonstrate interest in the classes they teach.