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Yet Brian Taylor, managing partner at admissions consulting firm Ivy Coach, doesn’t believe that Asian American enrollment has truly dipped since the fall of affirmative action. “It’s just that fewer students are filling out that ethnicity box on the common app,” he said.

Ivy Coach, a private college consultant, said on its website, “a Likely Letter is the equivalent of an offer of admission.”

Unlike Princeton, other colleges only extended the deadline for students affected by Sandy. Taylor said that this may have given students who were not affected by the hurricane some additional time to complete their Princeton applications.