not exactly @Pianomonster20. It is late, but not fully improbable for the letter to be taken into consideration. Princeton goes back to review its deferred applicants at the end of February, but there isn’t an exact (or public) window of time that Princeton does this. It could mean the last ten days of Feb, or the last two days, I’m not exactly sure.
But if you consider that in the month of Feb, they essentially review all of their Regular decision applicants, it wouldn’t be odd if they only saved the last few days of the month of Feb to review the relatively small pool of deferred EA applicants. If I were you, I would bite the bullet, and send them a letter through overnight mail if you haven’t already. At worst, you’d be too late and there are no other negative consequences, and at best, you get the letter to them in time and they make a tiny note of it on your application.
I actually did the same of waiting, and sent it on the 20th of Feb, hopeful it got to them on time, if not, oh well.
@Pianomonster20@Anonymous1418 I just added new info directly to my portal. I think that’s the best option so the processors don’t have to have more work than they already have.
@twoman my counselor was also asked my AP scores just recently for the RD around. Is this a good or bad sign? I have already self reported the scores that are good (5s/4s), so my counselor is not going to send any report to Princeton while noting that I already self reported (nowhere does it say that we need to report ALL scores, correct?)
@lananasneparlepas I think you make a mistake not reporting all your scores. Princeton knows the classes you took, right? And naturally they will want to know your scores. If you don’t report all, they will draw one of three conclusions:
You got a bad score, perhaps even a 1 or 2
You took the class, but didn’t bother to take the test, missing a nationally validating score, why? Was your AP course grading too easy?
You cannot afford testing, despite the college board offering waivers, unless your GC states money is an issue, it won’t be a good excuse
Think about it this way, when you are competing against thousands of others, why would you ignore Princeton’s request on self-reporting? A single three won’t kill your chances, several threes indicate you might not be able to thrive at Princeton. By not reporting all, you create doubt in Princeton’s mind, and with tha doubt it becomes too easy to put your application into the rejection pile.
@psywar I called Princeton today and I asked them if just sending in the ones I was confortable with was fine, and they said that it was, so I put that in the email. If they want more information, however, I wrote that I would be happy to share (aka all my scores) if they so asked by text.
My son applied SCEA and was accepted. About 2 weeks prior to the acceptance his counselor was asked for his AP scores. There was nothing for the counselor to add though, since my son had already self-reported all of his scores in the application. Hope this helps. Good luck to everyone!
@lananasneparlepas good you called, but again there is “fine” and there is doing what they recommend. It creates a small doubt. Offering to share more information (via text?) just makes them do more work to resolve your application.
They are crazy busy right now.
Doing anything at all to help them say yes is a good thing.
Do you really think they would text you? Or, with just days left, just go onto the next similarly qualified candidate? Are you worried about a 3, or are you hiding worse? Are you a perfectionist that might crumble at Princeton? Do you own your education and test results? That is the doubt you don’t want to risk them having…
@Pianomonster20 when I talked to admissions last, they just wanted your AP classes, and recommended to send all your AP scores. They didn’t ask what tests you planned to take. Since you are admitted by then, I don’t think they care, as long as your grades in the AP classes are maintained.
@Neelius I was wondering the same thing bc I got something similar for Yale! They asked me for more info on a parent in order to “determine my financial aid award.” IDK if it’s important to you, but I’ve gotten into Princeton (SCEA) and have a likely letter from Columbia as a non-athlete, so I’m very excited and hopeful for my other Ivy decisions. I asked someone about the correlation in the Yale thread and they said there wasn’t really one. Still, we can only hope that it might mean something good!
