Princeton Requested Graded Paper: Must It Be A Paper That Got an A?

Lindagaf
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:06:30 +0000

@MWolf . I’m pretty sure if you submitted it with the grade cut off, Princeton would toss your application. They state that they want to see the grade.

I’m not sure I agree with the Dean on this. Maybe the class was really hard, but it’s Princeton. Princeton clearly states that they want an academic paper. I suspect the student earned a B because maybe the paper was well-written, but the student didn’t address some important aspect of the prompt or test question. That’s a legitimate reason to give a B, despite an otherwise well-written paper. Unless the GC adds some info for context (i.e., explains that the teacher is a notoriously tough grader or similar), I think submitting a B essay could be risky.