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2015 Admissions Decisions near: Did you check for typos?
Saturday, 26 March 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Hey, future class of 2015: Decision Date (March 30) for Princeton and other major universities is drawing ever closer. So, how are you feeling? Maybe you think you’re already set thanks to a good legacy background or some killer athletic prowess. Or maybe you’ll be sitting at your computer in four days, nail-bitingly paranoid: what if
- Published in Musings
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applications, class of 2015, college admissions, paranoia, The Princeton Tiger, tigermag
JFK’s Princeton College App: It’s Okay To Copy/Paste
Saturday, 22 January 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Recently, bloggers have gotten ahold of President John F. Kennedy’s old college application essays, and boy, were standards different back then. EDIT: JFK’s Harvard essay reads like this: (Source) “The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I felt that Harvard can give me a better background and a better
- Published in Internet, Princeton in the News
Class of 2015 sets new applications record, College Confidential is like, meh.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
by Angela Wu
Princeton received a record 27,115 applications for the class of 2015, according to a statement from the university. The number is a 3.3 percent increase from last year’s 26,247 applications for the class of 2014, when applications jumped by almost 20 percent over the class of 2013. The university intends to enroll 1,300 freshmen in
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Tina Fey in talks to play Princeton admissions officer
Friday, 14 January 2011
by Angela Wu
Tina Fey is in discussions to play a Princeton admissions officer in a movie based on the 2009 novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, a former Princeton admissions officer. (I chose this picture because this is the only way I could imagine Tina Fey as Admissions Officer: disgusted with your inflated resume, and handing out acceptance
- Published in Goings On
Dream colleges and money woes
Saturday, 27 March 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
Remember when you were a high school senior, waiting nervously for that acceptance letter from Princeton? Well, it’s that time of year again. On April 1st (that’s this Thursday), at 5:00 p.m. EST, Ivy League applicants will receive their acceptances and rejections. So, what are high school students and their parents thinking about this admissions
- Published in Princeton in the News