Deferred
3.6 GPA. This year I have all honors classes with one AP. I have ten EC and community service activities. ACT is 22 and SAT is 1110.(CR+M). What are my chances?
Admitted!
@Sean3040 Not particularly great, that ACT is very low. Make sure you apply to a range of schools!
deferral letter was worded strangely. Almost like they said they didn’t admit because of grade inconsistency and wanted more grades, which I know isn’t true for most, if not all, of Princeton’s applicants. Feeling disappointed, but happy for others who were expected. To everyone else: know that everything happens for a reason, and there are better things to come.
Deferred :-< Big congratulations to all who got accepted!! Anyone know how often deferred kids get accepted? I’ve heard that deferral is essentially the same as rejection, but is that true? I’m trying to determine my chances haha (4.6 GPA and 2230 SAT, if it helps)
Accepted!
I’ve read this thread everyday but never posted. I am so proud of all you guys, and I am totally in a state of disbelief.
I made an account just to say I was accepted! So excited 
I also received a request for Q1 grades this past Monday. For future applicants, make sure your grades are really high! I believe it made the difference for me between being deferred and accepted. Congrats to all accepted and good luck to everyone else!
Wow i’ve gotten over being upset. Time to move on
did the ones who were accepted see the tiger??
Accepted!
@roybiv2017 Yes
@Lola38 We are being grouped in with the regular decision candidates, so I don’t think our percentage of acceptance should be any less or more than the overall regular decision admission rate. That being said, the princeton admission rate for regular decision is less than five percent. :///
Oh hey I was accepted… lol I forgot to post on cc
Has anyone from India gotten accepted EA 2017? Credentials please!
@ivydreamer555 What do you mean? Do you think you received a different deferral letter than everyone else or are you saying that the standardized deferral letter spoke about grades? All deferral letters from all colleges typically mention that they want to see midyear grades, just like regular decision schools also ask for mid-year grades.
@desie1 No, I know everyone gets the same deferral letter. It says “Often a deferral means that the committee would like to see your senior year academic performance.” I don’t know if they’re just saying that as a prerequisite for regular decision as you are saying, but I almost read it as though often times people are deferred because we want to see more consistency in your grades. It could be all in my head, though.
@Sean3040 that is still really good though, that you didn’t get denied! you still have chance, don’t give up! try doing amazing before your semester grades come out. there is a reason they are still keeping you in the applicant pool for RD.
but actually don’t they defer like a majority of the students so deferral doesn’t really mean much? i heard only deferral at Stanford really means anything.
@GettingRekt you are correct, the vast majority are deferred, very few are outright rejected.
Even getting on the waiting list is not hopeful, last year ~1200 were offered a waitlist slot, and only 39 were admitted off the waitlist. (See section C of Princeton’s CDS: https://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/CDS2015-16.pdf)
@decemberbaby12 while being cheerful, isn’t really helping IMO. All the deferrals get grouped in with the RD applications and then get crushed by the ~6% admit rate. If an SCEA app didn’t get in with the 15% admit rate, how well will they do with an admit rate 50% of SCEA? (Source: https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S45/94/44G37/index.xml?section=top-stories). Is there a non-zero chance? Yes, but not a good one.
Best to work on your other apps and get excited about one of your other choices. If, by some miracle (and it will be a miracle) you get in, great, but maybe instead you can focus on having a life vs. driving yourself nuts trying to be even more amazing (than you already are) in the very slight hope of overturning a deferral.
You will end up somewhere great, and especially with undergrad work, what you do at any school matters far more than where you go.
Can anyone give me advice on the supplement essay? I want to use the “quotation from an essay or book” prompt, but should it only be one event influenced by that? I want to write about a few different experiences that relate to the quote instead