<h2>What would be the worst possible combination of information for a Princeton application, based on the following?</h2>
<p>Gender:<br>
Ethnicity:
State of residence:
Economic Status:
High School type (public, private, charter):</p>
<p>I’ll give it a shot:</p>
<p>Gender: Male (maybe by a little bit… i think the ratio is pretty much 50/50)
Ethnicity: Asian
State of residence: NJ
Economic Status: ~$200,000 per year (just enough to not get aid, but at the point where $50k a year could still be hard to manage to pay [since $200,000 is the gross income, not the net])
High School type (public, private, charter): Public? i don’t know for this one</p>
<p>watch me be completely off… i’m usually kind of bad at this stuff sometimes</p>
<p>^ lmao, thats me except i’m white not asian…btw i wasn’t rejected!!! i was wait listed lol</p>
<p>lol that’s heartening bicyclekick-- im white, male, from nj too… doesn’t get much worse for us 
anyone else?</p>
<p>probably the worst part is the high school i go to is not competitive at all and is public…we haven’t sent anyone to princeton since the 1990s</p>
<p>Gender: Female? in general I know it’s harder to get in
Ethnicity: Asian
State of residence: CA? MA?
Economic Status: ~$200,000 per year (just enough to not get aid, but at the point where $50k a year could still be hard to manage to pay [since $200,000 is the gross income, not the net])
High School type (public, private, charter): A really expensive private school that is academically sub-par.</p>
<p>i really doubt it hurts a lot to be from NJ or CA - a LOT of people get in from NJ and CA. it hurts more if you are just an international.</p>
<p>oh yeah, being international definitely hurts the most, but being from CA definitely hurts. by way of analogy, there is a comparatively large number of asian americans at princeton/the ivies. it still hurts to be asian, precisely because there are so many qualified applicants, just like it hurts to be from CA, for the same reason.</p>
<p>Peytoncline, that’s me you just described. =/</p>
<p>Gender: M
Ethnicity: Asian
State of residence: CA
Economic Status: middle class
High School type (public, private, charter): any</p>
<p>also, this kid is smart (as reflected in his test scores/gpa) but his school is not competitive. on paper, he appears completely ordinary. a couple clubs, sports, non-spectacular essays (due to his math/science tendencies). doesn’t turn in his “additional info” paper, doesn’t (can’t) visit campus, etc, etc</p>
<p>o **** that’s me</p>
<p>dude… im male, asian, live in california, and am completely ordinary with only some hs clubs and good tests scores to back me up. and i got in. it really doesn’t matter that much…</p>
<p>oh yeah, i forgot that it’s really hard for internationals</p>
<p>I’m Asian and have my eyes set on Princeton… should I be worried? Does this mean I have to work extra hard?</p>
<p>@ Peytoncline: Wow. I’m male, asian, live in NJ, make ~$200k, go to a public school, and qualified for extremely little fin. aid.</p>
<p>But heh, i got in (So anything’s possible is the moral of the story)</p>
<p>Yay to defying the odds, Rupac!</p>
<p>Does anyone know the statistics on NJ kids applying to Pton? Like… is the reason why there are so many NJ kids there is because a disproportionate amount of NJers apply in the first place? or because Princeton likes to have a certain number of students from its home state? Does it just not care?</p>
<p>@ scrivener: According to the website (can’t seem to find the exact link now…) it seems like the most students accepted were from CA, followed by NJ, and I think PA, MA, and NY (not necessarily in that order)</p>
<p>wingless, what were your “good” scores?
and did you have a great essay or something?</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>i got 2350 (750 in reading) and 800, 800, 760 (math, physics, us history). in retrospect, i think my essays must have been pretty good since they got me in everywhere except stanford. i wrote about haircuts and expanded it to my views on life. i also wrote about my thoughts on physics.</p>
<p>and i don’t know the statistics, but there are many kids from NJ because 1) a lot more kids apply from NJ, and 2) the “feeder schools” are also all in NJ.</p>
<p>definitely female International… wait, thats me!</p>