What are my chances?

Hope4future
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:53:55 +0000

I don’t know if Princeton offers a full ride, but I do know that a lot of the Ivy league schools offer 10%. This is if a student’s parents make under 180,000 a year, the parents only have to pay 10% of their income in order to pay for everything. A guy who went to my school got that when he went to Harvard. A neighbor of mine goes to Princeton. The financial aid is really good there. The family only had to pay relatively small amount for his first two years, and then he started to work as an RA. Now his parents don’t have to pay anything. To the best of my knowledge, I don’t think he is graduating with any school loans. I know that was slightly off topic. It is hard to say if you are a shoe-in for Princeton. I am currently going through the applying to some top notch schools in the country. Everything that I have heard is that they want someone well rounded and unique. If you get National Merit, National Achievement, or National Hispanic, that will help. Along with high SAT/ ACT scores. Plan ahead for your subject tests. I failed to do this so I took mine way after I took the course and when the material wasn’t as fresh. I know someone who didn’t hardly any ECs, but had good grades and good scores and got into Stanford. He said the reason he go in was because of his essays. So I would say during the application process, really focus on developing your essay and make it unique to you.
I hope this helps. Like I said, I am currently applying to colleges right now and this is what people have been constantly telling me.