Princeton applicants will be notified of decisions in Mar.31

Princeton sets applications record for fifth year in a row

Princeton University for the fifth consecutive year has set a record for students applying for admission, receiving 21,869 applications for the class of 2013. Over the past six years, the University has experienced a 60 percent increase in applications.
 
The number of applicants for the class of 2013 represents a 2 percent increase over last year's record of 21,370 completed applications for the class of 2012, which had an applicant pool 6 percent larger than for the class of 2011. Applicants for that class were up 8 percent over the applicants for the class of 2010, whose applicant numbers represented a 6 percent increase over those for freshmen for the 2009 class.
 
The record-setting interest from student applicants comes as the University plans to enroll its highest number of freshmen in history -- 1,300 students -- in keeping with a planned gradual expansion of the size of the undergraduate class that culminates with the freshmen who will enroll in the fall.

Applicants will be notified of decisions in late March. The admitted freshman class will reach the "steady state" of 1,300 students for the first time since the University began five years ago gradually expanding the student body. Princeton began increasing the size of entering classes in the fall of 2005 to achieve an estimated 11 percent increase of undergraduate students to enroll 5,200 students by the 2012-13 academic year.