<p>i second frozen-tears… no stats allowed. i’d rather not be depressed by everyone else’s brilliance :)</p>
<p>sparkledust - that’s awesome that you’re being recruited! lol i’m completely obsessed with running, but not good enough to be recruited by pton… the only place i’m applying as a recruit is swarthmore, because they’re D3. are you a guy or a girl?</p>
<p>oh, and sparkledust… if you’re looking for a college that will offer you a scholarship for running, unfortunately, princeton can’t. it’s against the ivy league rules.</p>
<p>frozen tears! i agree with you…but i still invented cheese.</p>
<p>hey how do i get a smiley? do i have to go advanced.</p>
<p>cheese? ha! well i invented squirrels! i wrote my essay about how i designed their circulatory systems, and i’m sending in a picture of a mad, foaming-at-the-mouth, rabid squirrel with a threatening note that the adcoms better let me in or else.</p>
<p>A Lesson in Smileys for Notfadeaway: 
(you have to delete the space in between the eyes and mouth to get it to work)
: ) (normal smiley)
: D (super-happy smiley)
: p (tongue-sticking-out smiley)
; ) (winking smiley)</p>
<p>and those are the only ones i know… :)</p>
<p>thanks koala! hahaha squirrels. if i were an adcom, i’d say our class is the best for inventing squirrels and cheese. squirrels keep us from acorn overload. and cheese isn’t that great imo, but americans eat a lot of cheese.</p>
<p>hahahaha lol!!! actually, i HATE cheese… not sure why… but i agree; cheese and squirrels are essential to the american way of life, so we should be shoo-ins. :p</p>
<p>Well, koala, you may have invented squirrels (the cheeky little things) but I made them black. You know, those black mutant squirrels you’re going to see on the Princeton campus… :p</p>
<p>aha! i was wondering who spoiled my perfect creations. oh well, i guess i’ll have to attach a note to my application apologizing for their abnormality.</p>
<p>But the final product always comes after the prototype. My squirrels are perfect as they are… the originals are the ones that are flawed. :p</p>
<p>yeah. well my squirrels fly. :)</p>
<p>I thought you invented cheese. Where did the squirrels come from?</p>
<p>frozen tears, I know that. The coach already told me. It’s who ever gets into the college are the one’s who recieve financial aid and over 75% of the college is on financial aid. By the way, I also already know it’s not the coaches decision that determines whether or not I get in. I have plenty of more offers besides Princeton, including Harvard and Dartmouth. So if I do get in I will run and do many other things on the campus. That’s just a GOD given gift that sets me apart from the other applicants because right now I am currently a state champion and one of the top high school runners in the USA. Therefore I know all of the IVY rules you are trying to inform me of. Besides, running is not all I have to offer them…</p>
<p>koala717 I am a girl, I just turned 17 a couple of days ago. other School that are looking at me are LSU, The University of Florida, NYU, US naval Academy, US Military Academy, Harvard, Vanderbilt… and numbers of more. They are not just looking at my athletic ability, but my performance as a whole, like my stats school work, community involvment, team work, MY GRADES all the way from freshmen year, honors, and my ability to compete in the realm of being a student athlete…</p>
<p>Whoa… a bit touchy there sparkledust, I don’t think anyone was trying to second guess your obviously stellar talent in running.</p>
<p>pinkdillo, I know;I’m sorry FROZEN-TEARS; it’s just that I was trying to inform them that I am well informed on the colleges that are looking at me and all that they have to offer. It’s a very good thing to be wanted by a college rather you wanting them. It doesn’t matter if you are smart, athletic, gifted in the arts, or just plain creative, they will want you for something that they can’t get out of others. That’s what make this school so unique!!!</p>
<p>Sparkledust:</p>
<p>Apparently, I misunderstood your comment before; I did not mean to imply that you are ignorant about ivy league rules. You needn’t get so defensive about your grades… almost all of the student-athletes applying to princeton have spectacular grades to back up their athletic ability. I know a girl running at princeton who was state champ in the 2 mile, had 1590 SAT’s, was valedictorian of her grade, spent 3 years doing extensive research on the special properties of DNA, and was one of only 2 people in the nation to receive a very, very prestigious award (though i’d rather not say what it was, let’s just say i watched her receive it on TV). Now, while not every athlete has national awards, i have no doubt that the vast majority of them have GPA’s hovering around 4.0 and perhaps 1500+ SAT’s. A lot of the athletes with lower stats are too intimidated to apply to princeton. (i know a girl on the all-america lacrosse team with decent grades/tests who was being recruited by princeton, but chose to attend a less prestigious college instead because she was scared by the academics.) So your grades and personal qualities are not under attack; i am just assuming they are on par with the rest of the athletes applying to princeton. So anyway… if you’re applying to Princeton ED, good luck to you.</p>
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er… I’m confused. What did I say? I never addressed your athletics recruitment or anything… <em>is lost</em></p>
<p>frozen tears; sorry. I was carried away and typed in your name. </p>
<p>I feel very bad and I’m sorry if I sounded offenseful to you koala717. Please forgive me for the misuderstandment. You just made it sound like you were underestimating my abilities to get into Princeton only on athletics. PLease frogive me!!!</p>
<p>oooh, I see how that could’ve happened.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think koala717’s point was, it’s probably not a good idea to apply early decision to an Ivy if you’re really looking to get athletic scholarships. Actually… it’s not really a good idea to apply early decision if any scholarships or financial aid is really important to you, because once you’re committed to the school, they can theoretically offer you next to nothing and you’re still bound to go to their school. Of course, they wouldn’t do that; they’ll probably just give you somewhat less money than they would if you apply regular decision. When that’s the case, early action may be a better course of action.</p>
<p>I’m personally not really worried about being screwed over by early decision finaid, because Princeton’s EFC calculator tells me that I have almost no financial need to begin with.</p>