Sad Day on the Princeton forum

dadx
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:17:26 +0000

“The regulars are getting slaughtered. Most of them are getting deferred with stellar stats.”

WIth all due respect, this to be expected for HYP. The data from Avery’s study (which he had once posted but removed when people noticed it was there) indicated that the acceptance rate from about 6 years ago (at HYPSM) was in the neighborhood of 35-38% for those applicants with scores from 1500-1599. I would say that the emprical results of the people on the board seem slightly better than that, so it is, in fact, not a slaughter, but a fine collective performance.

I do understand that one takes an individual perspective on this, rather that that of the group. :). Congratulations to the successful candidates. The rest of you need to get busy at those postponed applications. Its a lot easier to do now than on December 28th.