If you received a rejection from Princeton in the Single-Choice Early Action round, this wasn’t how you wanted it to go. You should have gotten a deferral, at minimum, no? Princeton receives over 40,000 applications each year, and has admitted less than 5% in recent years. The fact that 75% of admitted first-years choose to go to Princeton is an immensely impressive yield rate. This is, notably, without locking in a high percentage of admitted students through Early Decision.  

It’s not the decision you were hoping for. You poured time and energy into your Princeton ED application, clicked submit, and crossed your fingers. Now, instead of a yes or no, you’re stuck in the middle: deferred. It’s a frustrating place to be, but it’s not a dead end. A deferral means they’re not finished considering you. You’re still in the running.

Princeton is an elite university that combines impressive research opportunities and a liberal arts perspective. A member of the famed Ivy League, Princeton offers 37 degrees and departments, and more than 500 student clubs and organizations to their 5,700ish undergraduate students. In only the last 10 years, 17 Princeton students have become U.S. Rhodes Scholarship recipients.  The acceptance rate is about 4.5%.