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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I alum interviewed for Princeton last year and it was a depressing bloodbath when decisions came out. Several spectacular candidates I thought would be admitted were not even wait listed. These were amazing kids. I do think it helps to be spectacular AND a first gen college student or URM or SES-disadvantaged student. Also, having a well developed specific intellectual interest in the humanities is good, because from what I saw there are so many STEM focused students.

None of this is meant to deter her! But have other options she likes too.[/quote]

Harvard interviewer here. Do you by chance live or work near a lot of TJ students? I think you do get more STEM focused kids if you live near a major TJ feeder area in FFX county. (We try to pair applicants with interviewers that work or live close to them. [/quote]

Nope, not near TJ.  I think there are just far more applicants interested in STEM. A kid interested in majoring in Arabic or Italian is harder to find -- and those department needs majors. FWIW, a disproportionate number of the humanities majors were admitted (still not many!).[/quote]

Opposite experience here...All the kids I interviewed who were admitted to HYP were actually STEM kids. I think that it's such a crapshoot and our samples are small that who you saw admitted among your applicants doesn't mean much.[/quote]

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