Princeton University offers a small-town college experience with an exceptional world-renowned education. We think of it as the suburban Ivy League. The undergraduate enrollment isn’t small, but it is manageable with 5,590 students. 

Princeton is an Ivy League liberal arts university that is known by name around the world. It honestly needs little introduction, but hopefully we can add some detail and color beyond what you may know from prestige and pop culture reference.

If you received a notice of deferral from Princeton, you aren’t alone. The renowned Ivy League university has historically deferred a large number of single-choice early action applicants, even the majority. This is frustrating, because you still don’t know where you stand and don’t even really have a hint towards how they feel about your application.

Princeton is a renowned Ivy League university with a strong research focus. The campus, in suburban Princeton, NJ, allows for easy trips to NYC while offering everything you could possibly need as one of the 5,600 undergraduate students. From cutting edge research facilities to professors at the top of their field and a liberal arts curriculum, it’s no surprise that Princeton is wildly popular among top-performing high school students. They have withheld their rate of acceptance for the last few years, not releasing it on their website or reporting it in the school newspaper, the Daily Princetonian. However, Princeton does release admissions data on a delayed schedule through the Common Data Set. Thanks to the 2023-2024 CDS report, we know that the acceptance rate for the Class of 2027 was 4.5%. Today, we estimate the acceptance rate to be between 4% and 4.5%.