Princeton is located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has a suburban feel and a very tight-knit on campus culture. It is also part of the coveted Ivy League, and boasts some of the best academic programs in the country across nearly any subject you could dream of studying. Unsurprisingly, getting into Princeton is exceptionally difficult. The university delays release of admissions data, but the overall first-year acceptance rate for the Class of 2029 was 4.4%.  

There’s a very specific moment a lot of students have early in college, or even before school starts:“I could probably be doing more than this.”

Princeton is one of the oldest universities in the nation, predating the United States itself, and is widely recognized as a bastion of leading academic work that shapes our world far beyond campus boundaries. Located on a lush suburban campus in Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton leans into its reputation as an Ivy built for those who like to go deep and drown out the global noise. The acceptance rate for the Class of 2029 was 4.4%. This followed the largest application pool in the history of the university keeping track, and a subsequent “0.2 percentage point dip in acceptance rate.”

In 2025, Princeton received the largest number of applications in university history, and the overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2029 was only 4.4%. This continued a trend of a “sub 5%” acceptance rate at Princeton.