<p>My school limits the number of applications to 6, so I have to pick schools wisely. I have decided to apply to schools where I have a chance because I don’t want to end up being rejected from all schools. Do I have a decent enough shot to warrant applying?</p>
<p>2280 SAT (800M, 740CR, 740W)
800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry
IB: 43/45 Predicted, Full Candidate
No GPA/Rank/APs offered at my school</p>
<p>8 International Math Competition Awards (nothing amazing, average AIME qualifier level (6 points at AIME))
1 National Award for Business
7 School Awards</p>
<p>President/Founder of 3 Clubs in School
Run successful business
Internship at Barclays
Organized 3 science projects
Student Council
2000 hours of community service
Varsity Basketball
10 Major leadership roles</p>
<p>4 Languages</p>
<p>Chinese
No Financial Aid
Great recommendations/essays.
International Applicant.</p>
<p>Yeah, you have some solid statistics. If the national award for business is as good as I think it is, then you might stand a chance. Your ECs are pretty good. Your academic stats are also pretty solid. However, just due to the overall competitiveness of admission Princeton, you can’t count on getting accepted. By the way, my school doesn’t offer IB diploma. We just have a bunch of AP classes, so I don’t know what 43/45-full candidate means.</p>
<p>43/45 means 4.0UW/4.85W around. But my school doesn’t send either because we’re an international school and do not have such a system.</p>
<p>One problem with Chance Me threads is respondents do not see your application or read your letters of recommendation. Respondents have less information about your achievements than the admission staff receive. And the criteria of Do I have a decent enough shot to warrant applying? is ambiguous. Is 10% chance good enough? Is 25% chance good enough? Here is a link that will provide you some data on the applicants to the Class of 2013. [Princeton</a> University | Admission Statistics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/) </p>
<p>Your SAT II scores are commendable and you would enjoy the science classes at Princeton. Good luck!</p>
<p>How does your school limit your applications to 6? Most of the time that is a suggestion, not a strict rule. It should be illegal to limit how many colleges you apply to…</p>
<p>chinesedumplings, please tell us more about the 6 school application limit.</p>
<p>Is the school financially liable for what might happen to you if you fail to get into any of the top schools because of this 6 school limit?</p>
<p>No. All applications go through the school and we never get to see our recommendations though our teachers informally tell us what they are going to write about. Thus, the school monitors how many applications we send as, inevitably, they will be sending the applications out.</p>
<p>Brutal. Now I have reason to apply to 12.</p>
<p>PS: What kind of community service did you do to log 2000 hours?! Crazy.</p>
<p>Four different activities, including the business, and one summer job. Then, there were other miscellaneous activities that logged about 20 hours each. I wasn’t sure if they would count but I emailed the admissions officers at all the universities and they confirmed that I can count them all as community service.</p>
<p>I thought the term “job” implied that one got paid, and thus disqualified it as community service?</p>
<p>Well, we get paid but the people at the job call it a stipend. In other words, they are reimbursing us for some cost, I have no idea which one, rather than paying us a salary.</p>
<p>Wow, okay, that changes everything. I’ll have to recalculate my hours now ._. </p>
<p>And just to make sure - this was straight from the horse’s mouth, right (eg. HYPS confirmed via email the hours can be counted as community service)? Thanks for the clarification!</p>
<p>Yup, they confirmed as did other universities. However, they all said that they do not count hours. Don’t think it makes a difference though.</p>
<p>Can you clarify what you mean by “they do not count hours”? Sorry about taking over your thread… I’m applying this fall as well.</p>
<p>They will not count up how many hours of community service you have done unless you have stated in on your application.</p>
<p>Your stats are very good. The awards will make stand out especially. However, are you from China? Because if you are, then it’s very difficult to get into the top US schools. This year, I think there was only 3 people who got into Princeton from China. I think that you should definitely apply to top schools like Princeton, Stanford, Harvard… but maybe apply to one lower tier school in case if things don’t turn out as good as you will hope.</p>
<p>I’m actually applying from Hong Kong. I don’t know of any other person applying to Princeton from my school.</p>