<p>Hehe, know how that feels. Except mine is URM status. I’d like not to deal with that nonsense if I got in, but eh…we’ll see…</p>
<p>accept: not much, I have average SATs for Princeton, decent rank, geographical diversity (rural va??), good recs</p>
<p>defer: nothing special about me, decent essays, meh…</p>
<p>reject: probably not ED, but if I get deferred, this wouldn’t be unexpected in the RD
round…If they don’t want me I’d assume they’d go defer—>reject</p>
<p>Accepted:
–I have decent/good sat 1 and 2 scores, and each one that i retook shows significant improvement.
–Great recs, including from a hospice (i feel bad that i havent seen em due to this college stuff).
–Piano for 7 years (cost of classes forced me to quit 2 years ago, but i still practice, and have sent in a cd)
–Karate since age of 5 (did a good essay on it, and its a major part of me)
–Science Research course (gives a chance to do independant work in science), with a few awards on the state level (expect a few more this Spring)
–most rigorous courses in school</p>
<p>Rejected/Deffered: (basically my bad points)
–living in NJ
–Only ap test I’ve taken is a 4 in Comp Sci (My school only allows 3 aps in the junior year, and impossible to take more than one, since they overlapped)
–Rank 18
–Sat not GREAT (760M, 720V)
–No National awards
–No leadership positions or great EC’s within school
–Having too many recs (i have 5 optional; it kinda got out of hand with all the ppl that wanted to write… my english teacher even wrote me a rec without telling me ">.>)</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> i should have done it in “defer/reject, and then accept” order, cuz i dont like to finish up on the bad points.</p>
<p>EDIT: oh yea, under defer/reject:
–GPA of only 3.512</p>
<p>Bokonon - my employment was two summers at a children’s 2-week track camp, so I’m not far behind you</p>