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This is from Princeton's admissions press release:
"International students represent 9.2 percent of those admitted to the class and come from 50 foreign countries, including Zambia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Morocco and Peru."

So is this any of you guys? I want to see how CC fills the class. Also, if you're the one from Bangladesh, i want to know, because i lived there, and i want to know if it could possibly be me.

So Princeton ED or RD international applicants, please post your country.

By Yep (Yep) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 08:45 pm: Edit

I applied RD from Mexico... when are we supposed to recieve notification? Is there any way to check without having to wait for the mail?

By Amarsn (Amarsn) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:13 am: Edit

I don't think so, but i'm going to call in about half an hour to see if i can convince them to give me my decision. Being halfway around the world does make it take some more time.

By Foreignboy (Foreignboy) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:39 am: Edit

Amarsn, where else have you heard from?

By Amarsn (Amarsn) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 11:10 am: Edit

i got rejected by stanford, accepted by U of Michigan, Accepted by wheaton college, and cedarville university.

where are you at, foreignboy? you got into stanford, right? where else?

By Fetisha (Fetisha) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 12:27 pm: Edit

I applied regular decision from Bulgaria and just e-mailed Ms. Varra from the Princeton admission office asking her to e-mail me my decision. We'll see if it works.

By Foreignboy (Foreignboy) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 01:00 pm: Edit

Isn't that a breach of policy? Then again I wouldn't know.
I got into Cornell, UW, UVA, and yeah Stanford. Waitlisted at MIT, and rejected by H and Y.

By Amarsn (Amarsn) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 11:36 am: Edit

even though I'm a US citizen, i think both Stanford and princeton treated me as an international applicant. hurt my chances at stanford, probably, but nvm. With princeton, it just depends on whether they think that my living in bangladesh for eight years is diverse enough. Being a white guy is tough, though.

Anybody else apply to princeton from another country?

By Yep (Yep) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:24 pm: Edit

I got in!

By Amarsn (Amarsn) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 09:44 am: Edit

bump? anyone else?

By Chicane (Chicane) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:02 am: Edit

im fro pakistan, and still no news, none of my friends have recd anythin.

By Piquant77 (Piquant77) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 11:21 am: Edit

Foreignboy, are you still waiting on Princeton then? Would you go over Stanford? It's annoying how they're so anti-internet; oh well, I definitely wouldn't choose it over Harvard but in any case I haven't received any news either way.

By Amarsn (Amarsn) on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 05:04 am: Edit

still waiting...

By Expataznamerica (Expataznamerica) on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 06:06 am: Edit

Amarsn, I did the same thing. American Citizen applying from abroad. Still haven't heard a thing either.

By Elrohir (Elrohir) on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 08:05 am: Edit

No news yet.. doesn't look too good. My guess is you get FedEx for an acceptance, regular mail for waiting list/rejection.

Can't complain about where I did get in though!

By Ishnab (Ishnab) on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 11:50 am: Edit

i applied to princeton early decision, and got in. indian, living in singapore at the moment. i don't get it, how come you guys are so worked up about these things ? is it really that big a deal ?

By Chicane (Chicane) on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 02:01 pm: Edit

trust me, it is.ishnab u got in ED, so it ur relieved from the tension, but when uve been rejected from most of ur places then...... it is a big deal!

By Fetisha (Fetisha) on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 02:14 pm: Edit

This is what Terri Riendeau, Associate dean at Priceton responded to my e-mail:

Our decision letters were mailed last Thursday. We hope most applicants will
learn their decision via the letter. However, if you have not received your letter by Wednesday, April 7, 2004, we will send you a notification of
our decision by email. If you prefer, you may call our office on Wednesday to hear the decision over the telephone. I will add you to the list of
students whom I will email on Wednesday, unless I hear otherwise from you. That notification will be sent to the email address you listed on our
application.

Terri Riendeau
Associate Dean
Undergraduate Admission Office
Princeton University
Tel: (609) 258-0881


So it appears I'll hear from them sooner than expected. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

By Icansmile4u (Icansmile4u) on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 02:17 pm: Edit

Fetisha. Thanks for the info. Can you give us his e-mail address so that I can put myself into the list as well? Even though I expect the rejection, I guess it would be better to deal with the shock with e-mail rather than actual person over the phone lol

By Jacklowey (Jacklowey) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 08:44 am: Edit

I live in London, got the decision today...waitlisted. Anyone know how many or what percentage were waitlisted.

By Fetisha (Fetisha) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 10:47 am: Edit

Sure. His (or her?) e-mail is TerriR@princeton.edu.

By Jadeheather (Jadeheather) on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 05:18 am: Edit

Just sent an email to Mr. Riendeau. Asked him to email me my decision because I'm going crazy waiting for the letter!

I'm from Mauritius btw. I applied ED and got deferred to RD. In their announcement, they didn't say anything about those deferred students who got admitted... Could it be there aren't any???

By Jadeheather (Jadeheather) on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 06:12 am: Edit

Hmm... after going through the posts, I'm definitely getting a bad feeling - I don't think I stand a chance of getting a letter of acceptance from Princeton...

I feel like I'm one of those "weak applicants" they talk about in their announcement! Plus, I should have received the letter by now if they sent the acceptance letters thru FedX... Hmm, not a good sign at all...

I guess I'll be attending NUS then.. That's not a bad thing but my heart was set on Princeton... oh, better finish this up before I end up whining!