@Yo Actually waitlisted students have better chances than they did a few years back because Princeton issues less acceptance letters than it did previously. It’s a difficult balancing act because on one hand Princeton wants all of the very best students - many of whom are cross admits with Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT and other very selective schools. It’s a difficult balancing game because they want to admit enough to fill their class over both rounds while keeping the rate of students who choose to matriculate there as high as possible. For example, if Princeton offers 1,900 students admission and 1,300 accept, they have a 68.4% yield rate (which is not too far off the actual numbers year to year). Yield rates matter to them so they want to offer as few spots as possible to fill their class. When their class is not filled by admits (ie those students matriculate elsewhere), they go to the waitlist.
A girl from my school just got into Harvard. I’m really feeling the pressure now LOL
@supercilious woah congrats to her! and don’t think another’s success hinders yours whatsoever, i’m sure you’ll go very far no matter what happens on thursday :3
@MissAnthropy yeah, I know; I’m just being petty. Thanks for your kind words.
it frustrates me that we all put all of our other applications on hold to perfect them for princeton and then they just defer most of us. pls at least give me a solid decision T.T
watch me get rejected #soliddecision
So nervous as Thursday comes up. I think I will look at my decision until 5pm or something.
@GettingRekt Honestly even if Princeton is your first choice apply to other schools regardless. My friend last year got into Harvard, Stanford, Swat, and other high up liberal arts colleges. Her number one was Harvard but she did the admit weekend for Stanford and immediately committed there she liked it so much. Take your chances because you may just end up liking somewhere else better. Don’t put your apps on the back burner 
@danieljg511 first, wow your friend sounds like a freaking genius haha and thank you! i guess nerves are just catching up to me sigh
@GettingRekt She had a 31 and was 8th in her class at a regular public school. It’s her story and her essays that got her so far, not just her intelligence. If your essay has a story to it and you’re truly able to reflect on what you got out of that story in your essay, then it goes far. Hope this helps
What’s everyone doing to get the anticipation of this decision off their mind? I’m not usually the kind to get anxious over things like these, but this is clearly something of magnitude.
@EvenIAmOdd focusing on finals studying as much as possible
Checking in from the Harvard SCEA thread with some unsolicited advice. Forget about Princeton. Pretend you never applied. I know how much you like the college, but you need to stop counting down and getting nervous. I was deferred today, and I realized I just wasted the last week of my life stressing about decisions, when I could have been doing work or relaxing. Unfortunately, some of the best qualified, most intelligent people here will get deferred. That’s just the way it goes. It’s honestly not worth stressing about.
TL;DR Calm your nerves. You will get through this.
I JUST NEED TO KNOW
@EvenIAmOdd I’m one of the lucky ones that doesn’t have finals this week. Been doing homework and my regular activities as always. Also trying to catch up on some shows on netflix, but somehow I always find myself here stressing anyways!
Hey all-
I know that this is completely ludicrous and 99.9% means nothing, but simply for the sake of passing the time:
A few days ago, I tried to log in to the admitted.princeton.edu with my portal credentials and it simply said “Unable to login.” Tonight, I tried again and it says “Unable to login. If you are having issues logging in, please email notify@princeton.edu for assistance.”
Weird that it would change, no? Probably means nothing though. Anyone else getting this message?
@danieljg511 this made me feel alot better to know that your friends got into those amazing schools and didnt get a perfect score or was perfect on anything i was so worried about my grade/scores even though they were well above average they werent perfect i feel now that i havw a little bit more of a chance than i had before
@gmanhax just tried it to and got the same message i would like it to say that it means we got accepted but i know thats not good evidence to say we did (although we can hope!!)
@gmanhax I got that too. Pretty sure it doesn’t mean anything. 42 hours and we’ll know I guess ~:> ~:>
@gmanhax same
@gmanhax i was able to login 
I feel like this means for sure i got rejected or deferred