Princeton University (2023-2024)

[polar moss]

LMFAOOOO bro thats like cool tho

honestly, own whatever you have if youre proud of it

[tough eagle]

Thanks man

[polar moss]

i was first clarinet freshman year and then got moved to 2nd becasue i went on my phone so much

😂

he did it in front of the whole class he was like nope move to second stop reaching for oyur phone

[lapis hill]

im scared for rd

[lethal sedge]

@polar moss hows princeton?

[meager tulip]

welp

[polar moss]

i was a mischevous fella

[lapis hill]

even though most of my essays are reusable

i haven't officially started them

[polar moss]

good, i like it

[lethal sedge]

I lived near there for 8 years

[polar moss]

i got deferred from harvard

[lethal sedge]

Its kinda in the middle of nowhere if you wanna buy wanything

[meager tulip]

it didnt hit me at first but now its starting to

[lapis hill]

i feel you man

[loud jetty]

brother i think it’s out

[polar moss]

remember rea is one school

[lapis hill]

but like lake said the fact we made it this far for pton means we have a chance elsewhere

[polar moss]

if ur goal is like ivies, or hypsm, still 9 other choices

[lapis hill]

and maybe princeton as well

[lethal sedge]

Rejected from:

[meager tulip]

im just so scared smth is wrong with my essays

[ripe fractal]

Harvard sucks anyway

[polar moss]

i didnt say that

LOL

[ripe fractal]

Where else did u get in RD?

[lapis hill]

mb it might have been someone else

or reddit

[meager tulip]

and atp idk if i can "fix" them

[lapis hill]

i swear it was you tho

[vivid root]

I got deffered

[meager tulip]

if theres anything wrong w my essays

[lethal sedge]

Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MiT, Caltech, Brown, Dartmouth…

[polar moss]

hmm not that much particularly good, i got into upenn williams georgetown washu umich

and a lot of waitlists

[lethal sedge]

I can’t remember everywhere I was rejected from

[meager tulip]

"not that much" --> upenn

[lethal sedge]

But it was like almost all of the T20s

[polar moss]

waitlisted from mit dartmouth uchicago jhu

[ripe fractal]

Well if u got into upenn as well u were definitely pretty cracked 😭 were u hooked?

[polar moss]

no

[tough eagle]

waitlisted from MIT is insane tho

ik someone thats princeton '26 in my school that was waitlisted there

[polar moss]

im like a middle class chinese guy from the midwest lol

pretty normie in that sense

[ripe fractal]

Do u know if Princeton likes fgli 🌝

[tough eagle]

he is insanely cracked other than his demographic

[lethal sedge]

Im a upper middle class white guy

[ripe fractal]

Bros crying over that

[tough eagle]

so youre at USC now?

[polar moss]

they dont like or dislike, they have a certain amount of spots for low income kids (it sucks and i wrote an article for the school newspaper about it)

[lethal sedge]

Yeah..

[tough eagle]

thats good id be happy with viterbi lol

[lethal sedge]

Is USC a t20?

[ripe fractal]

Sucks for the normal pool? I’m fgli

[loud jetty]

hey guys does anyone have the statistics like how many ppl applied and stuff?

please ^^

[ripe fractal]

Actually I don’t know if I count as low income

[barren moss]

did they defer a lot

[normal lynx]

I don’t think Princeton releases that

[ripe fractal]

I might just be first gen

[polar moss]

princeton doesnt release stats

[ripe fractal]

Gatekeepers

[polar moss]

you just gotta accept it for hwat it is

[loud jetty]

oh alright ty everyone

i haven’t checked yet

[ripe fractal]

Do they have reserved seats for every diverse group

Even in REA round?

[polar moss]

not exactly but roughly, it may be different this year

[normal lynx]

@tough eagle can you show how a deferral letter looks like

[tough eagle]

sure

[polar moss]

after the recent changes in supreme court rulings

[ripe fractal]

Well that’s only for race

[polar moss]

not so much, they can always fix it in rd if they want certain kids

[normal lynx]

Oh okay thanks

So does Princeton usually defer a lot of kids or reject them

[tough eagle]

according to lake and my counselor if youre deferred you are qualified and had a chance

[ripe fractal]

Isn’t Harvard the opposite and just defers everyone

[tough eagle]

i think so

[normal lynx]

Damn I got straight up rejected thinking I had a chance😔

[tough eagle]

can i see the rejection letter?

if you dont mind

[normal lynx]

Sure

[north gulch]

same

[polar moss]

i think so

because they have no reason to be nice

if they dont want u they will jsut rejectr

[random heart]

i got rejected from princeton now time to write history

[normal lynx]

Ok nevermind just did

Damn I can’t post an image here?

I’ll send it in dms

[polar moss]

LMAO this girl who dm'd me on linkedin about getting involved in the work i do like over a year ago just got into columbia

butterfly effect as fuck

i was scrolling through instagram and saw it and was like holy shit

💀

[ripe fractal]

Ay u helped me this year and ima get in next year watch

[polar moss]

ill be expecting it

[ripe fractal]

After spending a year with the name Princeton enthusiast idk how I’m gonna come back here if I get rejected

[tough eagle]

dude just change your name

[polar moss]

LMAO

its like dartmouth simp on A2C

when he got into yale instead

[ripe fractal]

Nope I’m planning for success

[tough eagle]

thats the spirit

[pale sonnet]

How many accepted, rejected and differed?

[tough eagle]

.

should have more acceptances tho

[pale sonnet]

and also more deferrals

[tough eagle]

yer

[grizzled ridge]

i feel you man

[grizzled ridge]

I can take a look for you

[lapis hill]

lowkey can you take a look at my essays

i'll dm

[vivid root]

wait if u are deferred can u edit essays or no?

[grizzled ridge]

no

[cosmic crater]

Alr im back on the princeton train

F Columbia

[glass sigil]

wait so like

my essays were read out loud to entire committee

??

[lapis hill]

yes

[glass sigil]

like out loud out loudu

[lapis hill]

yes

[glass sigil]

how do yk

[lapis hill]

i mean its typical committee procedure

they want to see how you we're compared to like the rd pool

[last juniper]

doesn’t princeton defer majority of early applicants??

[orchid axle]

me

[sage night]

@sage juniper how did you do?

[exotic raptor]

ACCEPTED

[polar moss]

lfgggg

[static shadow]

congrats!!! we might be classmates 👀

[uneven bloom]

we're free

[gritty falcon]

uhhhhhhh

[sudden rose]

CONGRATS!!!

[polar moss]

dm me for princeton 28 discord

ahhhh so exciting

[thorny viper]

hey if anyone has questions about math at princeton feel free to dm

[polar moss]

loll

this would be your man

[exotic raptor]

That would be awesome! 😁

[exotic raptor]

YESSS

[thorny viper]

it's crazy to think that this whole thing repeats itself

like we're not even through our first semester yet and princeton's already got their next batch

[rich zealot]

Deferrrrrrred

Well thats a good sign

I get to open my RDs with the same intensity as REA

[pearl narwhal]

so for the graded paper thing does it have to have comments on it and everything?

bcz i dont have any of those lol

[thorny viper]

i dont remember, i think mine had comments tho

[pearl narwhal]

so do you have to submit what grade you got on it?

[thorny viper]

i think so

[cunning vortex]

do u have literally no comments

[thorny viper]

like the point of it is that it's a graded paper

[pearl narwhal]

well we submit everything through canvas and on paper and my teachers r too lazy to put comments

[orchid axle]

My teacher used AI to give comments i think

[cunning vortex]

LMFO

[thorny viper]

based teacher

[pearl narwhal]

also can it be like a lab report or smth? or does it have to be like an english paper

[thorny viper]

uhh it should be the best work you have ever produced lol

so if that's a lab report ig submit that

[pearl narwhal]

lets hope submitting my lab report graded by a uchicago alum will impress them 😭😭

[rose lava]

do your teachers not give you feedback on your papers what 😭😭😭

[pearl narwhal]

not rly lol

[rose lava]

like even just a paragraph explaining why got got the grade you grade

you got *

[static shadow]

i had to specifically ask my teacher to grade my paper and add comments

so thats something u can do if you need comments lol

[pearl narwhal]

nope 😭

[orchid axle]

same

[tough eagle]

i submitted a 10+ page graded paper and was somehow not rejected

[tough eagle]

yo congrats btw

what major again i forgor

[orchid axle]

Thanks broo!!

biology

[tough eagle]

pog

[orchid axle]

might change tho

[pearl narwhal]

yeah i was thinking of just going back to the teacher and asking him if he happened to have any comments

[orchid axle]

😄

[tough eagle]

was there a tiger on the letter

[orchid axle]

yep

[tough eagle]

oooooh

[orchid axle]

@cunning vortex are you committing to princeton?

[abstract flare]

To those who got deferral. Does it make reference to mid year report?

[hearty basin]

yes

"Please be sure the Mid-Year Report is sent to us as soon as your mid-year grades are available."

[surreal cosmos]

just got rejected as a soft recruited athlete and very above average stat REA app LOL........

butlife goes on

[polar moss]

i think you have to be hard recruited

to have it help much

[rich zealot]

Lake

[polar moss]

yes

[rich zealot]

Were you deferred as well

[surreal cosmos]

no yeah but still i had good enough stats for it to be like the final push kinda thing

but o well it was still a gamble

[rich zealot]

And is that a capybara or a prairie dog in your pfp

[zinc apex]

WWW GOT IN

[polar moss]

i’m a princeton freshman

[zinc apex]

how do I get verified?

[polar moss]

congrats!!

[thorny viper]

no way

[rich zealot]

I mean when you applied

Did you get in REA, QB or RD

[thorny viper]

lake got in RD

[rich zealot]

Nice

[thorny viper]

i got in SCEA

[rich zealot]

And both of you have animal pfps

[polar moss]

yes

capybaras on top

[thorny viper]

capybaras on top??

they're topologists now

[ripe fractal]

I’m convinced all that matters is whether they like ur essays

[rose lava]

idk what soft recruit means

you either get recruited or not im pretty sure

i had a friend who walked onto the rugby team!!! but they did not offer to help her get in at all

[ripe fractal]

3 Princeton freshmen in here is crazy

[rose lava]

we were all here last year lmao

[ripe fractal]

If I get in I’ll come back here to give advice one day

[rose lava]

we are all in butler too ❤️

they place all a2cers in butler

[thorny viper]

we know basically nothing but sure

[rose lava]

its the loser one

[lapis hill]

4 actually

i got an inactive friend here who got in

[thorny viper]

dude imagine if princeton enthusiast goes to yale

[ripe fractal]

Is the campus chosen at random

[rose lava]

david and michael were here earlier too yeah

[rose lava]

yeah i think so

[thorny viper]

yeah we all pick our own campuses

[rose lava]

housing is essentially random

[ripe fractal]

Is there any difference other than housing

[thorny viper]

princeton's like an open world game and we're all the main character

[rose lava]

no. just me.

[thorny viper]

@rose lava dude your initials are literally a course requirement

[orchid axle]

wait do we choose our housing or its a random lottery pick

[rose lava]

it is essentially random

[rose lava]

the one i wont get 😭

[ripe fractal]

Are they all in the same general area

[rose lava]

no

campus is HUGE

[ripe fractal]

Oh

[rose lava]

where you are unfortunately matters a lot 😭

[ripe fractal]

Like an actual drive across campus?

[rose lava]

butler is nice because its pretty central

i mean you cannot drive but i think from one end to the other is probably 1.5 miles or something

[thorny viper]

butler is where they send the NPCs off to die

[rose lava]

so true

[ripe fractal]

I need a proper campus visit I’ve gone a few times but not like an actual tour

[rose lava]

you're a junior bro please get off here 🙏

[ripe fractal]

U right u right

[rich zealot]

Non-paying characters?

[ripe fractal]

But like

Ur alr in college

U need this even less than me 💀

[thorny viper]

the main characters are all in rocky, all of the sidekicks are in mathey, the hipsters are in forbes and whitman and all of the rest are just thrown into butler

butler is the bin of lost toys

[rose lava]

this is real actually

[rich zealot]

What does a tree in Princeton look like in December

[rose lava]

rocky doesnt have main characters cmon

who the fuck lives in rocky tbh

[thorny viper]

a tree, dog what

[ripe fractal]

Trees are ugly in nj rn

[rich zealot]

I mean the leaves

Golden brown, rustic... or withered and dark?

[rose lava]

i wish i got put into ncw its so nice

butler is fine though at least we arent in roma

[thorny viper]

no ncw always smells so bad

[ripe fractal]

Are ur roommates chill

[rose lava]

bloomberg is awesome too

[thorny viper]

butler actually has cleanliness

[rose lava]

nick and i both have singles

[cunning vortex]

wahoooooooo

😆

[rose lava]

i think lake has roommates

[ripe fractal]

Oh

Is that also random

[rich zealot]

Princeton's campus always looks super chic in fall photos

[rose lava]

essentially yeah

[thorny viper]

roma food moment

[polar moss]

butler is like an archipelago

no actual building 💀

[ripe fractal]

I feel like I’m never gonna actually apply

[rose lava]

roma food isnt that bad tbh

[ripe fractal]

Like it’s a fantasy

[rose lava]

whitman is the bad one

[thorny viper]

whitman actually has better food low key

[rose lava]

what

no

nick

[thorny viper]

like i can see the effort

the soul

[polar moss]

roma food will be like, fine except if you choose a combo that is weird it fucks up the experience

[thorny viper]

roma food is just waste

[rose lava]

they always have like one vegetarian option

[thorny viper]

true

[rose lava]

roma usually has something like tofu

ncw always has like 3 types of tofu

❤️

[thorny viper]

no one eats those nasty hard dumplings tho

[rose lava]

ncw dumplings have my heart too always

[thorny viper]

everyone eats the soft ones

[rose lava]

SMH

WOW

i like them.

[thorny viper]

you eat the crusty ones?

[rose lava]

the veggie ones yeah

[thorny viper]

ew

[rose lava]

theyre usually kinda burnt

but still go hard

[ripe fractal]

Yo have u guys ever seen each other on campus?

[rose lava]

ncw also has like 10 different types of salad on a given day

[thorny viper]

they go hard because they're overcooked

[rose lava]

nick lives in the same building as me

[ripe fractal]

That’s pretty cool

[rose lava]

i always see you going to ncw tbh nick stop defending whitman you are a liar

[ripe fractal]

Bro ppl from a2c can be actual connections in the future

[pale sonnet]

Is this right… so many deferrals

[thorny viper]

nah prob not

like if I still have discord past 25 that's sad

[rose lava]

just lake

[ripe fractal]

Ur supposed to connect w ppl from ur college though right?

And u guys know each other from here

[thorny viper]

i mean yeah but we don't communicate on discord

like you just text or use group me

[ripe fractal]

Wait did u meet on here

[thorny viper]

no

[rose lava]

i havent been on discord since school started im just bored rn

[ripe fractal]

Ohh ok

[rose lava]

procrastinating on r3 ❤️

[thorny viper]

yeah im just procrastinating

[rose lava]

nick we did meet on here

unfortunately

and lake

[thorny viper]

no i just joined this server

[rose lava]

wait actually

[thorny viper]

i joined the '27 server

[rose lava]

thats definitely not true

[thorny viper]

and then I met you all

[rose lava]

wtf

[thorny viper]

just look at my post history on here

[ripe fractal]

How many people are in the Princeton server

[rose lava]

i totally thought you were on a2c

[thorny viper]

nope

[rose lava]

i guess it was just lake

[thorny viper]

like a bunch now

idk how many

[rose lava]

how did you get the link to the 2027 server

[thorny viper]

my friend sharon gave me it

[ripe fractal]

MIT def has like 90% of the student population on discord

[rose lava]

love sharon

[thorny viper]

cause they're MIT

no showers

[ripe fractal]

Caltech is like 400 nerds per class I guarantee they’re all on discord

[thorny viper]

no sunlight

[rose lava]

the 2027 discord server has 841 kids

thats over half the class 😭

[ripe fractal]

I wonder how many used A2C

[polar moss]

not too many

[surreal cosmos]

it doesn't mean THAT much but coach gives LOR / talks w admissions and kinda helps mold an app into what they wanna see

i can attest it does not help enough tho!

[rose lava]

oh wow I didn’t know Princeton did that

what sport was it?

[short hatch]

Yeah I had some soft support from AROTC plus pretty good ecs and got rejected as well

But we ball

[surreal cosmos]

rowing

but a double legacy w rlly good stats at my school also got flat out rejected too so

[rose lava]

it's so unbelievably competitive

pretty sure dean richardson said she could fill like 7 classes with people just as qualified who applied

princeton is trying to expand their campus so they can accept more people

[eager inlet]

got a deferral 😕

i heard defer is high for pton

is it case?

[hearty basin]

in past years I think so

dunno about this year

[dawn glacier]

icl i was kinda disappointed but my dad was super happy with a deferral LOL

now i need to figure out what happens when you get deferred 💀

[wet pilot]

Sorry to hear that, man. Doesn't bode well for us other legacies, but I'm sure it helps if your parents donated a building.

[hushed pelican]

my country rarely got accepted to prince n idek why

[late swift]

damn i got deferred

[late swift]

i think that bc i highkey liked my essays and got 2nd in isef, this deferral is purely out of my 86 in senior year math

but ykw it is all over and now just get focused on the rd sounds like the best plan for me lol

[cosmic cobalt]

this is the mindset.

[rose lava]

i agree

i been eating more there lately

and i live in rocky lmao

[rose lava]

same I have double legacy + 2 relatives

and rejected

[frank pond]

🫂

[rose lava]

whateva

[frank pond]

its alright though

[rose lava]

we move

[frank pond]

its time to move on

and find other schools

[rose lava]

yessir

[quiet echo]

rip

[rose lava]

yeh

I had good stats too

selectivity is insane

[slender citrus]

22 defers is insane

[frank pond]

the curse of legacy

[rose lava]

bruh I though it would help

[frank pond]

from all the anecdotal examples ive seen in this thread, none of the legacies have gotten in lmao

[rose lava]

mayb they're trying to admit less legacy 'cause of the court case

[frank pond]

possible

[late swift]

A little sad tbh🥺

Seeing friends getting in is great but RD stress kicks inn

[pale sonnet]

Yes insane! I will take it as a soft rejection…

[pale sonnet]

@cunning vortex could you share your stats please. Congratulations!!!

[tough eagle]

Me too please @cunning vortex

[hollow jewel]

4.0 35

[cunning vortex]

^^

Thank you sm guys 😭

I have no doubt you guys will get into amazing schools soon

[tough eagle]

yall im just gonna put this out here but the college you go to does not define you. I know 2 of my dad's friends (both in their fifties) right. One went to Yale and now lives with his parents, not married or anything, and not particularly remarkable. Another went to community college and was promoted to partner at a small tech firm, opened a café and is now living his best life with his wife and children in Taiwan. It doesn't matter where you go to college. What matters is your character and your work ethic.

[hollow jewel]

i wish i could see the truth

but im blinded by prestige

and frankly tbh im so down bad for an ivy even tho i didnt ed

[tough eagle]

yea no same

when im not rational i think that all colleges except HYPSM and Oxbridge are garbage

[hollow jewel]

exactly lol

[tough eagle]

yea lol when im rational tho id be happy in purdue and gatech

not saying they are bad schools but ya know

[hollow jewel]

yeah i still think rutgers was so bad

i switched majors

kinda regret but oh well

[tough eagle]

wait what youre at rutgers now?

[hollow jewel]

nah its my safety

[tough eagle]

fair

[hollow jewel]

im doing finance/econ at every school

[tough eagle]

very cool

[hollow jewel]

but at rutgers i did cas cus im doing med so yeah

[tough eagle]

fair

[tough eagle]

yall my ec description is so ass according to an a2cer how tf did i not get rejected

[hearty basin]

too real, same here

[rose lava]

right near the new housing

[tough eagle]

mike did you rea

[rose lava]

I think that building itself is quite new

[rose lava]

Rd

[tough eagle]

wowwwww

im so nervous rn

[rose lava]

is the sculpture still there on the downstairs floor @rose lava

[tough eagle]

cuz i talked to other deferred/ rejected applicants and they are all better than me

[rose lava]

Yeah

nice

[rose lava]

Just write a really bomb loci

[tough eagle]

i have no solid achievements in life

my ec description are ass

my ecs are ass

[rose lava]

bro

legit

dont stress

if they deferred u, u had SOMETHING going for you

that they saw

Make it sound not ass😭😭😭

now just get straight A's for semester grades

I doubt it was that way anyways

[tough eagle]

may i dm you

[rose lava]

Sure

[tough eagle]

oh the best we could get is A* and i only have 1 subject (i do 4) that doesnt have that

[rose lava]

just get the highest grades possible

they prob wanna see high grades on your mid year report

[tough eagle]

yea i got one more A* recently

just further maths (ap calc bc equivalent) left

wbu @rose lava you rea?

[rose lava]

yea denied

[tough eagle]

im so sorry

[rose lava]

im gonna rd yale and harvard and some other stuff

dw bro

[tough eagle]

youll get in fosho

[rose lava]

hope

i hope u get in off of deferral bro

gl

[frank pond]

the MIT vibes >>>

[tough eagle]

thanks man

[tough eagle]

billert you rding mit?

[frank pond]

yes

[rose lava]

MIT humanities mid

[tough eagle]

poggers

billert when god closes a door he opens a window

maybe you are mit bound

[frank pond]

one can hope but if I'm being realistic I'm probably getting rejected

[tough eagle]

you never know

i thought i was going to be rejected

life is full of surprises

[slender citrus]

@frank pond what major?

[frank pond]

cs

[slender citrus]

ah gl

[long pecan]

Is 1520 Princeton okay dokay

[tough eagle]

i got 1530 and deferred

[long pecan]

Hmm okay so doable

[tough eagle]

yessir

[long pecan]

Deferred means you make the cut just not the luck

[tough eagle]

i think as long as you have 1500+ youll be fine everywhere

[long pecan]

Okay fun

Good luck on RD bro

We in this together

[tough eagle]

someone said "they know they are your first choice but you are not theirs" and it hurts so bad

[tough eagle]

lets go brother

youll be fine trust

[long pecan]

I mean this application season is the worst in history for every single college. Even the rate at which admissions are dropping has increased steeply this year, huge cuts across the board. I’m sure you’re perfect for Princeton the issue is just that 30,000 other kids are aswell

[tough eagle]

damn

what are you majoring in btw

[long pecan]

Watching ED rates coming out the last few days i had assumed the decline was going to get better but it did the exact opposite

[long pecan]

Foreign language

Wby

[tough eagle]

it will never get better lol

[tough eagle]

mech and aeroeng

but mecheng in most other schools

the only hook i have is that im a girl in stem

[long pecan]

Once test optional ends it might ease a tad

[tough eagle]

otherwise its all antihooks

[tough eagle]

fair

[long pecan]

I’d love to do that sounds like fun

[tough eagle]

yea lol

[long pecan]

Also not to burst a bubble but women are actually slightly disadvantaged in ivy’s

But hmm yeah stem might change that

[tough eagle]

yea i guess so

its ok

im still happy for the deferral

[long pecan]

Yeah

Duke just straight rejected

[tough eagle]

nah

in my school they accepted one deferred one

[long pecan]

Two of y’all?

Oh for Duke

I was the only ED at my school for it

[tough eagle]

dang

you got rejected by duke?

[long pecan]

Yeah it’s whatever

Rather have it than a deferral to get the result out of the way now

[thorny viper]

SAT doesn't mean as much anymore tbh, especially with princeton

like 1520 is totally fine I wouldn't stress. Focus on the other parts of your application way more, ie make sure your essays are really really good

• get good letters of rec

[tough eagle]

nick what was your sat score out of curiosity

[tough eagle]

oh mine are shit i can bet none of my teachers wrote things like [name] was the best kid ive had in 20 years

i legit sleep in class

im gods eepiest soldier

[thorny viper]

i think i got a 1490?

[tough eagle]

thats good

my first attempt was 1430

[thorny viper]

I reported as well* some kids who didn't get 1500+ don't report but I didn't care

[thorny viper]

yeah those are the letters of rec that matter tbh, I think that's how they gauge the academic quality of the applicant since SAT and GPA only give a small portion of a much larger picture

[tough eagle]

nick im the bottom of the barrel in my school

[thorny viper]

i mean I was a homeschooler with mid test scores (I also had all 4's on my AP exams and reported all of them) and still got in, if I can get in anyone can tbh

[versed trout]

What was the acceptance rate this year?

[thorny viper]

they don't release, but for the '27s it was around 5.6%

[pale sonnet]

what was the % of deferrals last year? Like more than 70%?

[versed trout]

How many got accepted this real time

[tough eagle]

nick you werent qb right

out of curiosity

[thorny viper]

no i was not

[tough eagle]

oh

[thorny viper]

and not a legacy either

[pale sonnet]

where you RD or REA?

[tough eagle]

omg same

my parents went to college in other countries

[thorny viper]

REA

[tough eagle]

straight acceptance?

[thorny viper]

yep

[pseudo oar]

Yeah I had 1520

[pale sonnet]

amazing!

[thorny viper]

but going back to what I was saying, I did have good letters of rec and strong essays to compensate. I also did a bunch of stuff in high school which helped too

[hollow jewel]

When u mean mid scores did u have low sat

[thorny viper]

i got a 1490 and all 4's on AP exams, i think i wrote that above tho

[tough eagle]

nick were you deferred and accepted

[thorny viper]

no I was accepted this time last year

[tough eagle]

god damn

[solid briar]

Deferred

Annoying but better than rejected

[ripe fractal]

4s are good wdym

[sudden rose]

2nd in ISEF?!?!?!

[hollow jewel]

Oh well I’m test optional so ig other parts weighted more

[ripe fractal]

One B wouldn’t be the difference between deferral and acceptance right?

[tough eagle]

nuh uh

[thorny viper]

that is definitely not the reason you were deferred

[tough eagle]

i really wanna know why i was deferred lol

nick i forgot your major what was it again?

[thorny viper]

math

[tough eagle]

cool

are you good with essays

i really need help on my ucb one

its due in 13 hours

[thorny viper]

no sorry, finals week :(

[tough eagle]

its fine

gl tho

[white hull]

I wonder what the RD admit rate will be

[magic fossil]

Somehow even worse 😦

[lapis hill]

you guys think defer >> acceptance rates gonna be lower this year

im coping crazy rn

[hearty basin]

defer >> acceptance rates r always crazy low anyways

[leaden pagoda]

that just makes me sad

when should the loci be sent by 💀

[quiet echo]

Anyone plays league

💀

[oak dove]

what's league?

[thorny viper]

why were you staying in bloomberg hall of all places

(probably cause it's the nicest dorm on campus and they don't want to give a bad impression??)

and no i don't know kevin guan

[rose lava]

yeah idk who that is sorry lmao

[late swift]

No fs, I already have 2 B+s in junior yr bc of my too difficult courses and too many absences for competitions. Having another B in senior year math and applying as a bse major, I would think that makes the ao doubt my abilities

AND IM INTL

If I were domestic it would prolly be different

[late swift]

Ty that was pretty outright but it is important to do my best in the future game

I sounded confident most likely bc my counselor was saying what I said

Good luck to all who got deferred and rejected. Stay clear of other thoughts and do great on RDs

Haha fs

Yeah!

[tough eagle]

After my deferral GATech is now my best friend

[vivid root]

lowkey same, im really hoping for tech 😭

[late oasis]

OMG AADARSH HI

[remote mist]

how did you guys apporach the civi engagement essay?

[hearty basin]

copied and pasted for me

I guess that's where I screw up

[vivid root]

OMG SHANE!!!!!!!! YOURE APPLYING TO PTOWN????

[late oasis]

LOL I HAVE IT ON MY LIST FOR RD

[hollow jewel]

OMG SHANE HOW WAS NSLIY

[late oasis]

IM SRYYYY IDK WHO U ARE

[late oasis]

BUT I LOVED NSLIY IT WAS SO FUN ESPECIALLY GETTING LOST IN SEOUL

[hollow jewel]

AHH THATS SO COOL KOREAN CULTURE SO FUN

[cunning vortex]

omg

korea 🫶 🫶

haha totally not biased

[late oasis]

i miss it so much i loved my host family

[vivid root]

did you do NSLIY too????

[tough eagle]

Talked about a volunteering experience and linked it to a program at Princeton

[sand crane]

Hey

[tough eagle]

Hello

[cosmic cobalt]

how is the princeton coffee shop

or @urban sinew

[urban sinew]

coffee club?

[cosmic cobalt]

yes

that

[urban sinew]

idk i never go there

i don't drink coffee

[cosmic cobalt]

also. can you see stars at night on campus

like how light polluted is it

[urban sinew]

uh i'm not sure tbh

i think it's pretty decent

but i've never really thought abt it

[cosmic cobalt]

ahhh

cool

[rose lava]

coffee club is great!

[tough eagle]

Any Princeton MAE people here

[quiet echo]

You’re better off asking lake

[quiet echo]

How do you survive 😭

[urban sinew]

Why would I need coffee

[zinc apex]

its good

[quiet echo]

So you don’t fall asleep 😭

[quiet echo]

I live on coffee, only reason I don’t pass out at school

[urban sinew]

If you never rely on coffee then you don’t need it to stay awake

[quiet echo]

I used to take preworkout everyday for the gym. That shit had like 300mg of caffeine, I depend on it now to stay awake 😭

I’m only avg 300-500mg a day tho, which is enough to not get heart problems in the future!

[urban sinew]

Damn wtf bro

You gotta cut down lowkey

[rose lava]

i usually have like 4 cups of coffee a day i think

its not that bad for you

[lapis path]

does anyone have the link to the '28 server

[cunning vortex]

i can dm it to u 🙂

[quiet echo]

I need itttttt 😰

[urban sinew]

Na

[tough eagle]

Guys I’m so nervous about my Princeton deferral. I’m such a shit applicant they should’ve just rejected me

Like why make me suffer

[slender citrus]

because you're not a shit applicant

[tough eagle]

It’s bad istg I have no commitment in anything

[late oasis]

guys for princeton, what papers did you guys submit? did you submit ones without teacher comments or how did you approach it?

[sand crane]

Bro im also deferred

Honestly I lost hope for Princeton alr

Now im team yale

Smh

[tough eagle]

Lmfaoo I’m now Team GATech

Not a massive fan of Yale because of location

[sand crane]

Honestly any university that will accept me

I’ll go fa

Fs

[uneven bloom]

I scanned a research paper I did for AP lang w/ teacher comments

Funnily enough, I didn’t even get a 100 on that assignment because I forgot to cite one work at the end 💀

[quiet plover]

hello

does anyone know defer rates this cycle?

[glass drum]

Would like to know as well, I got deferred and I thought it was nothing until people on Reddit are telling me that a lot more people got rejected this round than normal

[quiet plover]

hey guys

question time

if u got into both Yale and Princeton

which one would u pick

[hollow jewel]

princeton

[lapis hill]

harvard

[thorny viper]

79% of grades are As at Yale lol, grade inflation goes crazy but I’d still choose Princeton

[quiet plover]

ok lets get real for a sec, Yale=Princeton>Harvard

[lapis hill]

cope

chill

[quiet plover]

ur a first year, right? How are classes?

is it as stressful as they say

[lapis hill]

princeton = mit > yale = harvard

[thorny viper]

Uh Princeton is #1 on US News, Forbes, and Washington post?

[lapis hill]

^

[thorny viper]

Why

[lapis hill]

even though pton on top i dont follow rankings

[quiet plover]

meanwhile yale on niche😎

[lapis hill]

it's really abt how a school fits your interests

[quiet plover]

i love love love the gothic campus architecture and culture at yale

[thorny viper]

Hard but it’s fun

[lapis hill]

personally i find gtech better than harvard but a philosophy major would say the opposite

[quiet plover]

i have no clue how princeton is

[lapis hill]

same gothic stuff but more suburban

and prolly bigger cuz its not urban

[quiet plover]

do y'all visit nyc a lot nick?

[lapis hill]

i meant i was joking

[thorny viper]

sometimes

[thorny viper]

i wouldn’t take you seriously even if you weren’t joking don’t worry

[lapis hill]

damn that was harsh

[quiet plover]

proximity to nyc is one of my pros for yale

[thorny viper]

cope

lol

[lapis hill]

i like your humor

[thorny viper]

Idk if Princeton or Yale is closer

[lapis hill]

princeton fs

[thorny viper]

haven’t looked into that, pretty sure Yale is

[lapis hill]

yale is 2 hrs while pton 1.5

[thorny viper]

i see

[lapis hill]

not much diff tho

[thorny viper]

New Haven is a weird city tho

Princeton is a nicer college town

[lapis hill]

ive been to princeton its nice

never been to new haven

heard the pizza is good there tho

wanna try it

hey nick how hard do you think it is to get off defer list

[thorny viper]

idk depends

[lapis hill]

based off of your opinion

gotcha

sorry if that was a blunt question

[thorny viper]

sort of depends on what the issue is

like if they defer to see how your grades turn out, then that’s fixable

so you have a higher chance. But if you’re deferred for some other weird reason who knows

[lapis hill]

true

i hope its grades

im doing bse and pton didn't get my calc grades yet

so im hoping that's it

[thorny viper]

maybe idk

don’t read too much into it

[lapis hill]

yeah

its my dream school

i can't help but cope

lmao

[pale sonnet]

they said that being deferred means that at committee half voted yes and half said no

[lapis hill]

lmao

imagine like you convinced one more person

or less

[pale sonnet]

I wish…

[thorny viper]

idk if that’s true, but I’m not an AO so

There’s lot of stages of the whole ordeal but I’m not sure when deferral actually happens

[lapis hill]

in the letter they said committee

[thorny viper]

idk that could be bs tho

[lapis hill]

maybe

[thorny viper]

the time before orientation is amazing

Cause you’re a Princeton student without putting in the work of a Princeton student

[lapis hill]

lmao

thats my friend rn

he's living the life

[thorny viper]

it’s just a school

[rose lava]

did u get deferred?

[pale sonnet]

well we won’t experience that any time soon

[lapis hill]

if you applied to any other earlies maybe you might feel better

[rose lava]

rea moment

[thorny viper]

going to a state school is so based

[rose lava]

i shouldve applied to chapel hill and michigan honestly

i was too lazy

[lapis hill]

i mean public schools are possible

[lapis hill]

are u a pton defer too?

[rose lava]

nah stanford

[lapis hill]

hey that's not bad

there's a high acceptance rate

from that list

[thorny viper]

Stanford deferral is actually good

they accept a lot of them

[rose lava]

hopefully usc cluches up 🙏

if i can get 50% + one of the leadership scholarships i will prolly just go there

[lapis hill]

w

i hope you get in with the scholarships dude

[thorny viper]

going to Michigan or UCLA must be so fun honestly

[rose lava]

so i've heard

[lapis hill]

i wish

[rose lava]

cant afford neither so i didnt bother applying

[lapis hill]

its too xpensive

tho

[rose lava]

if i get in here i will probably come tho

just cuz the aid is insane

[glass drum]

Guys was the deferral rate this year less than last year for SCEA

I’m just seeing a lot more people get rejected

[lapis hill]

they don't release stats

officially

however there is indication it is lower this year

[thorny viper]

no idea but yeah it’s probably bad

[glass drum]

Always that was suspicious, but I’m just poking around Reddit

[thorny viper]

it’s bad every year and every year says they were the hardest year to get in or whatever

[glass drum]

I got deferred and I thought everyone got deferred so I just thought that a deferral was a postponed rejection

[rose lava]

is princeton's defer good?

[glass drum]

But this year I’m seeing people get rejected more

[lapis hill]

i hope it is this year

[rose lava]

stanford was super brutal this year tbh, i'm the only one in my school (which had semi competitive apps imo) who didnt get rejected

[lapis hill]

but we don't know cuz no admissions stats

[glass drum]

Last year it would have been the expected outcome. This year, idk, because it seems like they rejected a lot of people

[thorny viper]

I mean it’s never “good” but it’s not bad cause you aren’t rejected

[lapis hill]

i just feel like princeton has no need to defer a lot of people to deflate their rd acceptance rate

and for that reason will make definite decisions sooner

[glass drum]

Yep I think me and one other person got deferred from Princeton University from my school even though there were some other people who got rejected with interesting and competitive applications

[rose lava]

yeah fs

[thorny viper]

legitimately a good point

[rose lava]

i knew it was gonna be bad but i didnt expect us to get massacred 😭

[lapis hill]

it's me and two other kids so far

both of them are my close friends

i hope we all get in and join my other friend

[glass drum]

Same my best friend and I got deferred

[rose lava]

hopefully RD will clutch up for us

[lapis hill]

[glass drum]

But I’m just confused as to why this year is different

[rose lava]

atp i dont even care if it's stanford, just wanna get in somewhere good 🙏

[glass drum]

Also I’m hearing that really strong applicants are getting deferred too

[thorny viper]

you have no idea how many people i know say “oh I could’ve gotten in but it’s too expensive so I didn’t bother” and then uh oh it’s actually not easy

[glass drum]

Which means that RD is gonna an absolute storm

[lapis hill]

i've seen some really strong applicants get rejected

[glass drum]

Really? Interesting

[thorny viper]

Sometimes it’s the same

[glass drum]

Obviously just our luck to get the goofy ahh year lmao

[pseudo oar]

j do one w the teacher comments. it rly doesnt matter thou i submitted a v bad one cause i can't write

[rose lava]

we're definitely the prototype year for now

[glass drum]

Usually ED helps us above average normies out in RD lmao because all the really cracked people commit after ED/EA

[lapis hill]

i saw a reddit post or smth on this discord saying that a selective defer pool is among the top 20% of rd applicants

[rose lava]

did you get in rea?

[thorny viper]

yeah

[glass drum]

Well that’s a nice ego boost, but ngl I have a feeling the RD applicant pool is gonna be more competitive

So top x% or not, we all shouldn’t expect anything. For our own sanity.

[lapis hill]

well we'll have to see

we don't know for sure the selectivity of princeton

[rose lava]

i wanted to be done but they want more

[pale sonnet]

I applied but I haven’t received any results back yet…

[lapis hill]

i have like 26 lmfaoooo

[rose lava]

nah i mean stanford gave more supps

[lapis hill]

if i reuse a bunch it might be like 8 supps

[glass drum]

Agreed. Ngl, I prefer this strategy than the everyone and their mother gets deferred strat

[pseudo oar]

i think less competitive

[lapis hill]

oh actually?

honestly thats a w

utilize it and clutch up

[glass drum]

How so?

[lapis hill]

i wish princeton did that

oh that's nice

[rose lava]

they have this too

[glass drum]

Because from personal experience I’m seeing gud people get deferred

[rose lava]

bro they're so hard

[lapis hill]

when are they due by

[rose lava]

feb 15th or something

[lapis hill]

thats a good timeline

[rose lava]

i think defer goes straight to committee

for stanford

[lapis hill]

i see

[pseudo oar]

cause everyone will j throw pton there j to apply and see but to choose rea that means at least u think u have a shot of getting in imo

[lapis hill]

i hope pton does the same

[pale sonnet]

I think this is true

[rose lava]

idk i might be wrong

[lapis hill]

nice

[pseudo oar]

thats y the rea admission rate is higher than rd even if u exclude athletics and legacy

[glass drum]

I thought it’s simply because of the stronger applicant pool

[pseudo oar]

but imo rea is harder than rd to get into thou

[rose lava]

yeah i think this

[lapis hill]

idk i feel like it might be lower cuz we're not exluding qb applicants

[glass drum]

But now, strong applicants are getting deferred which means that they’ll be competing against us

[pseudo oar]

yeah the pool is stronger fs

[thorny viper]

REA is normal people v nepo babies v athletes

it’s a war

[glass drum]

Honestly I’m just hoping that being deferred will put me at a little bit of an advantage

[pseudo oar]

lmao yeahhh

[glass drum]

I’m in this weird international student situation even though I live in the U.S. and legit every school is to expensive

[lapis hill]

princeton considers you domestic

[pseudo oar]

well apply pton then

[thorny viper]

It mostly likely won’t but that’s okay

[pseudo oar]

yeah

[graceful spoke]

For persons who applied Early how did you answer these?

Prompt #3: What is a new skill you would like to learn in college? (50 words)

Prompt #4: What brings you joy? (50 words)

Prompt #5: What song represents the soundtrack of your life at this moment? (50 words)

[lapis hill]

since you go to us hs

[glass drum]

I think for people who are not super cracked, SCEA helps show some demonstrated interest

[thorny viper]

I answered honestly

[lapis hill]

my advice is have fun with them

don't make it a red flag tho

[thorny viper]

I said that cooking and eating food brought me joy

[graceful spoke]

You guys have any samples?

[graceful spoke]

wdym?

[rose lava]

legacy got nerfed this yr at stanford i swear

[pseudo oar]

nah but that wouldnt rly help cause if u aren't fully qualified they can j defer u

[glass drum]

Yeah well every other school doesn’t lmao

But still

[thorny viper]

everyone says this every year but it’s just that the nepotism they had isn’t enough

[near vapor]

Anybody get into pton w a low gpa?

[thorny viper]

the nepo babies have their own battles to fight

[pseudo oar]

i was in the same position its fine

[graceful spoke]

Can I see the acceptance letter for those who got in?

[pale sonnet]

Yes we are the experiment

[glass drum]

Actually? H4 visa??

[lapis hill]

true, my friend is in a similar situation but theres a few more schools than princeton that consider you domestic

[pseudo oar]

im w F1

[thorny viper]

ie their parents didn’t donate enough money, or their parents aren’t famous enough, or they are just so incompetent and lazy that they couldn’t get in despite their pedigree

[rose lava]

oh guys i have a question

[lapis hill]

ik harvard and yale do

[rose lava]

how much does princeton take into account test optional

do they prefer tests like yale?

[glass drum]

Well for admissions maybe but we’re just screwed for financial aid

[thorny viper]

They don’t care

[rose lava]

alr

[lapis hill]

damn

[manic jay]

Which school said test opt is truly test opt this year

[glass drum]

Yeah, that’s why I applied to a ton of state schools

[rose lava]

stanford

[manic jay]

I remember someone said that

[manic jay]

Does that imply it wasnt truly test opt in previous years

[pseudo oar]

test scores dont matter tbh

[rose lava]

idk

[thorny viper]

Princeton probably gives you the fairest shake out of any Ivy imo

[manic jay]

Yes they do

[glass drum]

So basically, to wrap everything up, less people were deferred this year, this may help us in RD but probably won’t, and life moves on and I ain’t getting in lmao

[thorny viper]

This

[manic jay]

They arent as important as they used to be

[lapis hill]

i mean anything above a 1500 is fair game

[thorny viper]

No

[near vapor]

Do yk anybody personally that got in with a low gpa due to extenuating circumstances?

[manic jay]

But still matter in your application

[lapis hill]

and if you're in the 1400s range you can be fine

[manic jay]

Dawg holistic is holistic

[lapis hill]

or just go test optional

[manic jay]

Everything matters

If u go test opt then test scores dont matter

[pseudo oar]

if u got above 1500 then submit it if u dont go test optional is what i think

[thorny viper]

GPA is not something they ignore, you should definitely be at least at 3.8 unweighted

[manic jay]

If u submit a high score it can benefit you

[pseudo oar]

they dont care if u have a 1520 versus 1600

[thorny viper]

This is correct

[lapis hill]

fr

[manic jay]

Yea

[near vapor]

Oh damn cuz I three freshman year and I have a 3.6 because of it but everything else is super strong

[glass drum]

Someone in my grade got into Williams College ED with a 1490

[near vapor]

First author on top shelf

[thorny viper]

I submitted my 1490 SAT and all 4’s on my AP exams and I was fine

[lapis hill]

W for them

[near vapor]

1570 SAT

[rose lava]

i'm fucked

[glass drum]

So I think test scores don’t matter anymore as much

[rose lava]

i have a 3.7

[manic jay]

No youre not

You have good demographic

[lapis hill]

yeah

[thorny viper]

The average GPA for Princeton applicants is like 3.9

[rose lava]

I mean you can make up for it but

basically everyone applying has a 4.0

it’s Princeton

[lapis hill]

schools calc gpa way diferrently than each other

they're gonna look at individual classes

and maybe compre your gpa to other classmates

[near vapor]

My ECs and test scores are way better than avg pton applicant do u think that could help me slide with a 3.6 and I also had p severe extenuating circumstances

[thorny viper]

No

[manic jay]

Prolly not ngl

[thorny viper]

GPA >>>>>>SAT

[near vapor]

Tuff

[manic jay]

3.6 is very low

For princeton

[lapis hill]

as long as it's not too out of place and there's reasonable course rigor/extanuating circumstances you should be fine

[rose lava]

your test scores are probably not better than the average Princeton applicant just saying

[near vapor]

Yea I was jus looking at their CDS and 5% of admits had under 3.5

[manic jay]

Whats the average

[rose lava]

my gpa is an upward trend tbh 3.5 -> 3.6 -> 4.0

[near vapor]

And it’s not mostly athletes

[manic jay]

All athletes prob

[thorny viper]

Average SAT is 1520 I think

[rose lava]

yeah

[pseudo oar]

oh rly?

[near vapor]

Athletes who apply to Princeton tend to have close to 4.0s

[rose lava]

your score cannot be “way better” than a 1520

[graceful spoke]

For persons that got in what was the soundtrack of your life?

[pseudo oar]

i thought it would be a bit higher

[manic jay]

Inflated by test optional

[rose lava]

fs

[manic jay]

Look at pre covid average

[rose lava]

yale pre TO was apparently 1450 it's isanne

[manic jay]

Prolly similar tho ngl

[lapis hill]

fr on the cds its like 1550-1560

[thorny viper]

True so say 1490 or something

[manic jay]

Id say 1500+ submit anywhere

[thorny viper]

it was lower before Covid I believe

[manic jay]

1450+ depends on situation

[rose lava]

You should probably still submit if you’re around 1450 I know kids who got in with lower scores submitted

[manic jay]

Obvi yea ppl with higher scores more likely to submit

[thorny viper]

I know someone at Princeton with a 1380 and another with an 1120

[rose lava]

SUBMITTED???

[manic jay]

Thats very rare