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For more than 265 years, Princeton University has writers’ workshops, game nights, yoga and dance offered extraordinary educational opportunities to its classes, intramural sports, and trips to New York undergraduates, equipping them to become leaders City and Philadelphia for cultural events. In addition, in their chosen fields. This viewbook will introduce academic support is available in the colleges from a you to many of the most remarkable features of this network of peer tutors, college staff and faculty advisers. exceptional university and show you what it means to Princeton has the resources to ensure that your academic truly experience Princeton. and social encounters are varied and fulfilling. We Princeton is a major research university with the feel of comb the world for superb students; here, you will meet a small liberal arts college. Our students are encouraged undergraduates from all backgrounds. You’ll also enjoy to sample many different academic offerings before opportunities to study internationally and to explore selecting a concentration. They engage in intensive internships and service programs abroad. and critical study, pursuing original research that Finally, Princeton is special because of its generous culminates in a senior thesis. Within this viewbook, financial aid policy, which is available to domestic students describe in their own words their academic as well as international students. If Princeton is the journeys, the support they receive and the relationships right place for you, we will make sure that finances are they form. not an impediment. In other words, you are not at a Princeton is also distinctive because of its focus on disadvantage in our admissions process if you require undergraduates. In these pages, you’ll meet professors financial aid. Our need-based scholarships, built on who believe in the importance of good teaching and of grants rather than loans, make a Princeton education forming strong relationships with their students. They affordable to students from families of all income levels. describe how much they relish the two-way exchange I hope you will find the stories and information in this in the classroom; it is not unusual for them to discover viewbook inspirational. Staff members in the Offices of that their teaching has had a discernible impact on their Admission and Financial Aid are available to answer research. Experiencing Princeton means that learning your questions. never stops, even for world-renowned professors. Welcome to Princeton. Learning doesn’t stop outside the classroom, either. In the residential colleges, to which all students are assigned for their first two years, learning is Sincerely, integrated into daily living. These intimate residential communities become the nexus for friendship, scholarship and support. Freshman seminars are hosted by the residential colleges. Dinners with faculty and Janet Lavin Rapelye visitors are common occurrences, as are film festivals, Dean of Admission Table of Contents Princeton University is a one-of-a-kind place. We are one of the top research universities in the world, with a distinctive emphasis on undergraduate education. Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the nation. Our campus is known for its natural and architectural beauty. Princeton’s 5,230 undergraduate students are part of a vibrant community of scholarship and service, and we aim to enroll the most talented students from all parts of the world, regardless of their financial circumstances.

At Princeton, you will have endless opportunities …

To Learn. [pages 4–33] As a Princeton student, you will have an educational experience that deepens your intellect, sharpens your skills and expands your horizons. You will benefit from an academic environment focused on undergraduates, where faculty devote much of their time and energy to teaching and advising students. From ancient Greek to neuroscience, your course of studies will be broad, varied and stimulating.

To Grow. [pages 34–47] With students, faculty and staff from all over the world, Princeton is committed to building a diverse campus community where students from a range of cultural, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds pursue new interests and learn from each other. We also encourage you to explore life outside of Princeton through a variety of programs that enable you to study across the globe.

To Connect. [pages 48–63] Life at Princeton offers ample amounts of time for social interaction, extracurricular activities and building informal relationships with students and faculty outside the classroom. Our close-knit, residential campus allows you to quickly form bonds with other students. Soon after you arrive on campus, you likely will consider Princeton your second home.

To Lead. [pages 64–73] Our objective is to prepare students to become leaders who address the challenges of the future. Living up to our unofficial motto, “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations,” Princeton students are instilled with a commitment to civic engagement. Our graduates leave Princeton ready to make a difference in whatever field they choose.

To Make Your Mark. [pages 74–81] Today’s Princeton has been shaped by generations of students and alumni before you, and now you will have your chance to shape Princeton for future generations. Find out about Princeton’s admission process and generous financial aid policy.

Learn more. Office of Admission Read blogs written by www.princeton.edu/admission Princeton undergraduates. admission.princeton.edu Experience Princeton 4 | To Learn To Learn Time Flies, You Soar

Never stop thinking. Question your assumptions. Employ the skills of many disciplines to approach and solve a problem. Relish the liberty of dabbling in what fascinates you, what mystifies you and, yes, what you love.

Princeton doesn’t just encourage these approaches to learning from its students; it demands them. For more than 265 years, we have been unraveling the possibilities, ensuring that all who pass through FitzRandolph Gate will have endless opportunities to reach their potential.

In the classroom, time will fly faster than you can imagine. You will learn the power of language and moral reasoning, the thrill of scientific discovery and the insights of history. You will encounter ancient and modern ideas that motivate you. You will develop an aesthetic sense that helps you appreciate great works of art. You will acquire knowledge in a laboratory and in a studio, working independently and in collaboration with your peers and professors. You will experience in every way the joy of reaching beyond your comfort zone. You will create. And when you leave, you will be transformed and you will soar, ready to achieve, serve and lead.

To Learn | 5 A Major Research Institution With a Liberal Arts Core Princeton is recognized Even after selecting a globally for academic major, students may further excellence and is chart their academic consistently ranked among course in other areas of the top-tier research study, earning certificates universities in the world. in interdepartmental Our faculty members are programs. In every leaders in their fields, instance, our students conducting research at are expected to engage the highest level. Their in intensive and critical groundbreaking research study, and to transcend is supported by some of the boundaries of the best facilities in the specialization. world, including the Frick Students also benefit Chemistry Laboratory, from the interdisciplinary the Icahn Laboratory that connections at the houses genomic research, core of the Princeton and the new, state-of-the- curriculum. Classes bridge art Princeton Neuroscience perspectives from different Institute and Peretsman departments, and various Scully Hall for Psychology. interdisciplinary centers Construction is also under connect faculty, students way to house the Andlinger and researchers across Center for Energy and campus. You can, for the Environment, where example, take a course such researchers and students as “America Then and will focus on ways to move Now,” which is team-taught beyond our dependence on by rotating faculty in fossil fuels. African American studies, At the same time, art and archaeology, Princeton is a small English, history and university that began as politics. a liberal arts college. In Our classrooms are this tradition, our faculty populated by students from members encourage and a variety of backgrounds challenge every student who offer a range of to explore the many perspectives. They provide academic opportunities a sounding board for a available before settling diversity of opinions, a on a concentration place where good ideas are (major). This emphasis The Honor Code shared. on exploration often leads Princeton students take all written examinations students to major in areas without a faculty proctor. They assume full responsibility for honesty and conclude each very different from their examination with a written pledge that they have original intentions. abided by the Honor Code. Princeton’s honor system has existed since 1893.

6 | To Learn On the Benefits of a Liberal Arts Education “It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the nonpartisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical processes of thought and yet an instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick to the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind.” Woodrow Wilson, Princeton’s 13th president and Class of 1879

“One of the great gifts of college life, and one of the defining insights of liberal arts education, is that you can and must prepare for important things to come without knowing exactly what they are. You will inhabit a world in the years to come defined by possibilities that are almost unlimited.” Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton’s 20th president and Class of 1983

To Learn | 7 Our Academic Offerings

Study what you love. At Degrees and Programs a common language and African American studies, Princeton, you have the Princeton offers two common skills as part of a an electrical engineering freedom to explore your bachelor’s degrees: a liberal arts education. major may earn a certi- intellectual interests and ficate in visual arts or a bachelor of arts (A.B.) and While students can study follow your passions. Any major in the Woodrow a bachelor of science in within and across different field you choose will teach Wilson School of Public engineering (B.S.E.). disciplines, all students you to think critically, and International Affairs apply to Princeton and not solve problems, express You can choose from may earn a certificate in to individual departments, yourself clearly, broaden among 34 departments sustainable energy. programs or schools. your understanding of the and 47 interdepartmental human experience and certificate programs Students select an academic prepare you for success (see page 10). In lieu of major and also may earn in professional careers, existing programs, you may certificates in other areas postgraduate studies or apply for an independent of interest. For example, whatever path you may concentration. Princeton a molecular biology major choose after Princeton. provides all students with may earn a certificate in

Graduate School Acceptance Rates • Acceptance rates of Princeton graduates to medical schools routinely range from 85 to 90 percent. At many of the top 10 medical schools, Princeton applicants were recently admitted at two to three times the national acceptance rate. • Recent applicants to the top 10 law schools were admitted at twice the overall rate.

8 | To Learn The Roads They Took

Arna Ionescu Dan-el Padilla Peralta Sophie Kallinis Class year: 2000 Class year: 2006 (Class Salutatorian) LaMontagne Major: Computer Science Major: Classics Class year: 2000 Certificate: Dance Career: Lecturer in the Department of Major: Molecular Biology Classics, Columbia University Career: Vice president for user Career: Co-founder and co- experience and design, Proteus I majored in classics at Princeton, owner of Georgetown Cupcake; Digital Health growing tremendously as a scholar starred on TLC’s television series and person in large part because of the “DC Cupcakes” I entered Princeton as a ballet- time and care my professors invested dancing math/science girl who Ever since we were little girls, my in me. My professors tutored me in liked calculus and who spent sister and I would always talk about the finer points of classical literature every evening in the ballet studio. and toy with the idea of starting and history; taught me how to write I left Princeton with a broad set a bakery together. We opened an academic essay; opened my eyes to of passions and an inkling of the Georgetown Cupcake, in Washington, exciting intellectual developments not unique path I would follow to bring D.C., on Valentine’s Day 2008, and just in classics, but in other fields; and, them all together. it’s been a whirlwind since. above all else, familiarized me with the My coursework outside of international scope of classical studies, So how did I get from molecular engineering surprised me. I never the many diverse perspectives brought biology to my dream job? My decision expected to love psychology, to the table by scholars whose life to start Georgetown Cupcake was the cognitive science and philosophy. It stories spanned the globe. moment when it all came together; was junior year when I realized that I had taken the things that I loved With the help of Princeton’s Daniel my calling was at a new intersection and the things that I knew and M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship, I of fields called human-computer made them my career. To be sure, attended the University of Oxford after interaction. my degree in molecular biology did graduation and earned a master’s in not teach me how to bake. Nor did I did not follow a standard path, in Greek and Roman history. I recently it teach me how to run a business. part because my career didn’t quite earned my Ph.D. in classics at Stanford However, my education at Princeton exist when I was at Princeton. But University, and will begin at Columbia was a key ingredient in this mix of Princeton prepared me nonetheless University as a lecturer and Mellon my professional development; all by ensuring that I developed Research Fellow. those late nights in the molecular multiple dimensions. I’ve also written a memoir, to be biology lab enabled me to satisfy my Princeton gave me a foundation published in 2015, that aims to show urge to experiment and deepened my from which I could not only build a how a humanistic education has pushed appreciation for, and understanding career, but contribute to an emerging me to think more rigorously about of, how things progress from simple to profession. American society and my place in it— complex. That has helped me run and as an immigrant from the Dominican grow my business of making the best Republic, as a man of color, as a diverse cupcakes in the world. voice striving to make a difference within as well as outside of academia. That humanistic education was what I prized most about my undergraduate experience. To Learn | 9 A.B. Degree B.S.E. Degree Certi!cate Programs

Students pursuing a bachelor of arts may Programs of study in the School of Students also can choose from among major in any one of the following academic Engineering and Applied Science lead 47 certi!cates of pro!ciency, which departments in the humanities, the natural to the degree of bachelor of science in offer a chance to pursue focused study sciences and the social sciences: engineering. Students can major in one that supplements the primary work of Anthropology of the following academic departments: their major. Architecture Chemical and Biological Engineering African American Studies Art and Archaeology Civil and Environmental Engineering African Studies Astrophysical Sciences Computer Science American Studies Chemistry Electrical Engineering Applications of Computing Classics Mechanical and Aerospace Applied and Computational Comparative Literature Engineering Mathematics Computer Science Operations Research and Financial Architecture and Engineering East Asian Studies Engineering Biophysics Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The course of study for the B.S.E. Contemporary European Politics Economics and Society includes the following: English Creative Writing French and Italian • During the four years of study, Dance Geosciences completion of a minimum of seven East Asian Studies German courses in the humanities and social Engineering and Management History sciences, including one course from Systems Mathematics four of the following six areas: Engineering Biology Molecular Biology Engineering Physics Music – Epistemology and cognition Environmental Studies Near Eastern Studies – Ethical thought and moral values European Cultural Studies Philosophy – Foreign language Finance Physics – Historical analysis Gender and Sexuality Studies Politics – Literature and the arts Geological Engineering Psychology – Social analysis Global Health and Health Policy Religion Hellenic Studies Slavic Languages and Literatures • Completion of a minimum of eight courses by the end of freshman year, Humanistic Studies Sociology Jazz Studies Spanish and Portuguese including a freshman writing seminar. Languages and Cultures Judaic Studies • In spring of freshman year, selection Woodrow Wilson School of Public Language and Culture and International Affairs of a major to pursue during Latin American Studies sophomore, junior and senior years. Latino Studies The course of study for the A.B. includes Linguistics By the end of sophomore year, the following: • Materials Science and Engineering completion of the equivalent of the • Ful!llment of distribution area Medieval Studies following: requirements. Students complete one Musical Performance or two semester-long courses in each of – Four semesters of mathematics Near Eastern Studies seven general areas: – Two semesters of physics Neuroscience – One semester of chemistry Planets and Life – Epistemology and cognition (one course) – One semester of computer science Quantitative and – Ethical thought and moral values (one Computational Biology course) • Completion of a minimum of 17 Robotics and Intelligent Systems – Historical analysis (one course) courses to begin junior year. Russian, Eastern European and – Literature and the arts (two courses) Eurasian Studies – Quantitative reasoning (one course) South Asian Studies – Science and technology (two courses, Statistics and Machine Learning at least one with laboratory) Sustainable Energy – Social analysis (two courses) Teacher Preparation Technology and Society • In the !rst two years, exploration Theater of courses across disciplines while Translation and Intercultural investigating areas for a possible major. Communication • Completion of a one-term writing seminar Urban Studies in the !rst year. Values and Public Life Visual Arts • In the spring of the sophomore year, selection of a major to pursue during junior and senior years. • Expectation to complete 17 courses to begin junior year. • Demonstration of pro!ciency in a foreign language.

10 | To Learn So Many Choices

Rachel Parks “I really felt at Class year: 2015 home here. I came Hometown: Hamilton, New for Princeton York Preview, the annual Residential college: Whitman College hosting program Career plans: Medicine; for admitted public health students, and I had Other activities: Teaches English to Spanish-speaking an amazing time. immigrants in the local community; member of Peer I really loved the Health Advisers and Student atmosphere and felt Health Advisory Board; participated in Princeton’s What has been your favorite How did participating in like the people I class so far? My favorite Princeton’s Bridge Year international service program, met were genuine, Bridge Year, before freshman class has been my freshman Program influence your year. seminar, “Behind the academic experience now interesting and fun, Scenes: Inside the Princeton that you are on campus? What have you decided to University Art Museum.” I My Bridge Year in Peru and that I could major in and why? I am had never taken an art class taught me so many incredible majoring in anthropology before. We got a firsthand things, but I would say the make truly valuable because I think its approach look at running a major lesson that had the biggest friendships here.” is really valuable. The university museum and impact on my academic discipline has taught me to curating an exhibit. It was experience was being able to ask critical questions, which both incredibly challenging let go of pre-existing beliefs. I think is the true purpose and rewarding to design My path in college has been of a liberal arts education. I my own exhibit at the end very different from the way also am earning certificates of the semester, and I still I might have imagined it in global health and Spanish, love taking my friends in high school, and I think which I plan to incorporate on informal tours of the much of that is due to the into my senior thesis museum. fact that I felt comfortable research. changing my plans and trying something different.

To Learn | 11 Exercise Your Brain

Feel the burn. At Princeton, we will stretch your mind and challenge your imagination. Our academic program will enable you to develop your scholarly talents and discover new intellectual pursuits. From freshman seminars to the senior thesis, we will empower you to become an independent thinker and contribute your own ideas to original scholarship.

The Experience Freshman seminars. Small class settings where first-year students work with professors on special topics. Seminars prompt students to think deeply and bring ideas to the table. About 75 seminars on a wide range of topics are offered annually and are hosted in the residential colleges.

Writing seminars. Small, intensive courses that focus on intellectual inquiry across diverse fields of study. Freshmen investigate a shared topic with peers and receive guidance on key elements of academic research and writing. Precepts. A central or social science lecture Independent Work feature of the Princeton courses. Instructors An opportunity to pursue original research and scholarship undergraduate academic promote stimulating under the mentorship of a faculty member. All bachelor of experience that dates back discussion and debate arts (A.B.) candidates complete junior papers or projects to 1905. Precepts are a among small groups of and a senior thesis. Almost every bachelor of science in component of humanities students. engineering (B.S.E.) candidate completes a senior thesis or a substantial research project.

12 | To Learn “The small size of our freshman seminar gives the class an incredibly collaborative feel; we get to really engage our classmates in discussion, which means that we legitimately learn from each other.” Sarah Cuneo, Class of 2015

To Learn | 13 The Senior Thesis The senior thesis is the culmination of your academic work at Princeton. Students choose thesis topics based on their passions. On these four pages, recent seniors reflect on the process.

Avneesh Sarwate Class year: 2014 software for writing music is complicated, making it Hometown: Monmouth, difficult for musicians to New Jersey quickly develop their ideas. Department: Computer So I set out to build a new Science, B.S.E. interface that was a hybrid of an instrument, a musical Senior thesis topic: score, an audio looper SkipStep: A touch screen and an algorithmic music tool for writing and generator. performing music My adviser for this project Faculty adviser: Jeffrey was Jeff Snyder, director Snyder, associate research of the Princeton Laptop scholar and lecturer in Orchestra (PLOrk). He music is an instrument builder Senior thesis experience: himself and gave me a lot I developed a prototype of feedback on features to of a new touchscreen include and how to design musical instrument, called the interface. I’ve already SkipStep, that would written a few songs using simultaneously allow SkipStep, including a piece musicians to write, perform for PLOrk. Later, I plan to and improvise music on clean up the code, add a few Brittany Hardy new features and release it multiple instrument voices. Class year: 2014 Hardy names “Exodus” and as an app. As a musician, I’ve been “I Shot the Sheriff ” as her Hometown: Avondale, interested in the intersection After Princeton: I plan to favorite Marley songs. Arizona of music and technology. work at APT (Applied “It was a really fun class,” There is a large body Predictive Technologies), Department: Religion Hardy says. “I enjoyed the of academic research on a data analytics and readings and learning about algorithmic music and consulting firm in Senior thesis topic: The the history of different schemes for computers Arlington, Virginia. I will music of Bob Marley and Caribbean music styles.” to generate songs and be a software developer his influence on Jamaican society melodies, but nothing has there, and will continue to The class experience been developed for ease of work on computer music in Faculty adviser: Wallace planted the seed for her use by the average musician. my spare time. Best, professor of religion senior thesis: “I decided Also, a lot of the existing and African American early on I wanted to do a studies fun thesis and that I wanted to do something on Bob Senior thesis experience: Marley. I also wanted to do For Brittany Hardy the a research trip,” she says. chance to write a senior thesis meant a chance to In January of her senior learn more about something year Hardy realized her she’d always enjoyed: the dreams and went to music of Bob Marley. Kingston, Jamaica, for two weeks. She conducted Hardy took a class on research at the Bob Marley Caribbean music her museum and interviewed freshman year at Princeton. several Jamaicans, While she says she’d including Rastafarians “always been a fan of Bob and reggae musicians, Marley’s music,” she “really about Marley’s influence became a fan” in that class, in Jamaican society. “It all which was taught by music came together,” she says professor Noriko Manabe. about the project. 14 | To Learn Mary Kathleen Schulman Hardy’s adviser, Wallace Best, “was so supportive Class year: 2014 of revolution and regime This project has been change. It portrays them an invaluable learning and encouraging,” she Hometown: Fairfield, as they rebel against and experience. The biggest says. Best advised her to Connecticut “immerse herself in the overthrow corrupt rulers, challenge has been working topic” and to take special Department: East Asian establish themselves in to master archaic Chinese, care to develop a detailed Studies their place, and endeavor which is dissimilar to the to build their states anew classical language of the outline before starting to Senior thesis topic: An write. and win the hearts of their later first millennium BCE exploration of early Chinese people. Central themes and entirely different from Hardy, who is earning political rhetoric include the responsibility modern Mandarin. This has certificates in African Faculty adviser: Martin of a ruler to his subjects, been an integral part of my American studies and Kern, the Greg (’84) the right of an oppressed endeavor to understand a Spanish, has taken other and Joanna (P13) Zeluck people to overthrow their society that existed 3,000 opportunities to travel Professor in Asian Studies government, and the rule of years ago. The immense and broaden her academic law in a newly founded reach. During her junior Senior thesis experience: and unstable state — year, she studied in Athens I have long been fascinated concerns that have and completed independent by the classical world and remained relevant work on religious and by language, literature across the millennia. political attitudes toward and philosophy. Having My thesis focuses Muslims in contemporary studied modern and specifically on the Europe. Last summer, she classical Chinese during rhetoric and persuasive returned to Greece to attend my first three years at power of the five earliest the Mount Menoikeion Princeton, I knew that speeches, which were Summer Seminar organized I wanted to explore the an attempt by rulers of by Princeton’s Center for philosophy of ancient China a newly founded Hellenic Studies. While for my senior thesis. My dynasty to convince there, she worked with adviser, Professor Martin their skeptical subjects nuns at the Hagios Loannos Kern, introduced me to a of their legitimacy. Monstery to learn about remarkable text called the What language and their culture. “Shangshu” or “The Book ideology did they of History” (also known One of Hardy’s highlights employ? The philosophy as the “Shujing” or “The as a Princeton student expressed in the Classic of Documents”). was meeting First Lady speeches is a combi- When I learned that there Michelle Obama, a member nation of appeals to does not yet exist a single of the Class of 1985, as divine forces, precedent, book-length English- temporal distance between part of Hardy’s work with and a broader, more language study on the me and the text I am Leadership Enterprise for a abstract vision of morality. “Shangshu,” I was eager to analyzing has been a source Diverse America. The language is strikingly take on the challenge. of wonder and, at times, performative, even songlike, After Princeton: Hardy frustration. Yet in many The “Shangshu” is the as the speeches are punctu- has received a Rangel ways the world it represents foundation of political ated by exclamations that Fellowship to pursue a is immediately familiar. My theory in classical China. have no semantic meaning master’s degree focused goal is to bring this world Traditionally dated to the but that establish a unique on international affairs as to life through my study 11th century BCE, the rhythm and cadence. My preparation for a career of some of its defining composition of its roughly thesis is a line-by-line in the U.S. Foreign moments. 50 chapters in fact spans analysis of the original, Service. The program several centuries, from the archaic Chinese text. It After Princeton: I am encourages the application late second or early first explores the linguistic and considering a career in of members of minority millennia BCE to the fourth philosophical qualities of diplomacy and U.S.-China groups historically century CE. The text is the speeches that proved to relations. underrepresented in the a record of speeches that be instrumental in securing Foreign Service and those ancient kings, ministers the rule of a dynasty that with financial need. and generals are believed to would endure for centuries. have made during moments To Learn | 15 The Senior Thesis

Michaela Karis Class year: 2014 such disparate cultures as Seeing the parks firsthand America, Japan, France and meeting the designers Hometown: Phoenix and Hong Kong. What behind them highlighted Department: Comparative does Disney, a paragon of entirely new aspects of the Literature “Americanness,” become in parks that have become a completely new context? central points in my Senior thesis topic: A thesis, but this process For my senior thesis, I’ve cross-cultural comparison has also been a wonderful researched the ways in of the international Disney opportunity to connect which the Disney parks theme parks with a global academic have been translated and community. I’ve discussed Faculty advisers: Thomas adapted around the world. Disney’s employment Levin, associate professor of Including everything from policy with a professor German; Patrick Caddeau, close readings of the humor from the City University of lecturer in East Asian employed on the Jungle Hong Kong over dim sum studies Cruise to analyses of how and corresponded with a countries are portrayed and Senior thesis experience: prominent Disney scholar constructed on the ride “It’s While studying abroad about his thoughts on the a Small World,” my thesis in Japan during my Haunted Mansion. Tackling engages the parks as living, sophomore year, I had such a multinational thesis breathing texts that both the opportunity to visit has allowed me to meet and shape and respond to their Tokyo Disneyland. Long learn from people from all visitors. Situating the parks fascinated by the Disney over the world. parks in America, I was within the history of new intrigued by how the Tokyo media and globalization, Last year, more than 126 park was both entirely I explore the cultural million people visited a new and eerily familiar. undercurrents of a number Disney theme park. With Everything in the park of popular attractions and 11 theme parks spread had been translated — also examine instances of over three continents and linguistically, culturally, failure — after all, it’s when yet another park currently gastronomically — for an attraction is not catching under development in its new audience, yet the on that cultural differences Shanghai, the Disney park remained undeniably become most apparent. parks reach a massive and growing audience. “Disney.” Following my What I’ve particularly While theme parks remain experience in Tokyo, I loved about my thesis somewhat atypical subjects began to think about how experience is that it’s of academic study, I have the Disney parks work in so interdisciplinary, found that they offer just allowing me to apply my as much potential for knowledge in film studies pertinent analysis as works and literary analysis to the of cinema or literature. more complex five-sensory More than that, their broad, realm of the theme park mass culture appeal has and demanding historical, serious implications for sociological and cultural local cultures in a rapidly understanding of a wide globalizing world. In other variety of locations. I words, I see my thesis as a also love that the project serious work of scholarship. encourages me to think globally. Over the course But that hasn’t stopped it of my research, Princeton from being immensely fun. granted me funding to After Princeton: I plan travel to the Hong Kong to attend a master’s and Paris parks to interview program in entertainment designers (“imagineers” in engineering and design. Disney-speak), engage with local scholars and collect primary source materials.

16 | To Learn Evan Saitta Class year: 2014 Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Senior thesis topic: The physiology of the dinosaur Stegosaurus Faculty adviser: James Gould, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Senior thesis experience: Evan Saitta’s senior thesis has taken him across the country and back in time. Saitta has spent summers in Montana since his freshman year studying sexual differences in the dinosaur Stegosaurus. channels that once housed of Stegosaurus remains in blood vessels in the plates. the foothills of the Little He has painstakingly Snowy Mountains in central “This is what I want to analyzed 150-million-year- Montana. About two hours do for the rest of my life,” old fossils to determine north of Billings, the site is says Saitta. “It’s definitely whether a single anatomical in the northern extremes of quite a challenge, but I’m difference found in a species the Morrison Formation, a confident it will all come of Stegosaurus indicates if massive wealth of Jurassic- together. Although a lot an individual was male or period dinosaur fossils of this stuff is new, I think female. Stegosaurus is a that extends from northern the general reception small-headed, large-bodied Montana to the middle of among people who study herbivore that stomped New Mexico, and stretches stegosaurs has been pretty around what is now the longitudinally from Utah to good.” North American West with Kansas. a clutch of large spikes at Saitta’s adviser, Professor “I enjoyed it so much the end of its massive tail James Gould, says that that I continued to go to and twin rows of substantial Saitta’s work could help Montana and developed a bony plates adorning its establish understanding of a project. Even coming into back. social system unique among Princeton I knew I wanted dinosaurs and of interest to The work, which he plans to develop a thesis based modern ecologists. to publish, could provide a on this site,” Saitta says. new understanding of the The sizable effort Saitta’s “In more than 100 years of physiology and lifestyle of thesis required was studying Stegosaurus, this Stegosaurus. matched by his passion for site is the first time that we have multiple [Stegosaurus] Saitta has dug up fossils the topic, Gould says. “His individuals in one location in Montana, examined enthusiasm is infectious, with no other animals stegosaur specimens in and it is a testament to my around. Even before people Switzerland, and pored willpower that I was not got into it, they knew there over slides of late-Jurassic out West with him this year was something special bone tissue in Princeton’s digging up bones.” about this site.” Guyot Hall. A Montana Saitta was a junior in medical clinic even let him high school when his After Princeton: Saitta will use its X-ray computed thesis first took shape. study paleobiology at the tomography, or CT, scanner He had volunteered to University of Bristol in the to identify the remnants of work at a site boasting an United Kingdom. unusually rich collection To Learn | 17 Academic Freedom

At Princeton, you are School of Architecture. School of Engineering and Woodrow Wilson School of encouraged to take classes The school is a center of Applied Science. Princeton Public and International across a spectrum of teaching and research engineering emphasizes Affairs. The Woodrow academic fields. You may in architectural design, fundamental principles Wilson School will prepare take courses in engineering, history and theory. You will of engineering science you for participation and natural sciences, creative construct your academic and design as well as leadership in public affairs arts, humanities and programs around a core collaborations across the on the local, national and social sciences. For more of required courses. The natural sciences, social international levels. The information on academic broad academic program sciences and humanities. curriculum is policy- options, visit www. prepares you for graduate This integration with oriented and stresses a princeton.edu/main/ studies in architecture and the liberal arts is key to course of study designed academics. other related disciplines. solving societal problems, to familiarize you with and preparing leaders and social science and other For the study of entrepreneurs who make disciplines applicable architecture, engineering, wise use of technology. to the solution of public and public and challenges. international affairs, academic resources are consolidated into “schools” “A defining — and extraordinary — quality of within the University, Princeton University is its ability to combine the best though all students apply to aspects of a liberal arts college with those of a major the University and not to a research university.” particular school. H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science

18 | To Learn Crossing Academic Boundaries

Princeton’s interdisciplinary centers and programs promote innovative thinking. They bring multiplePrinceton’s perspectives interdisciplinary to complex centers and issues programs by connecting faculty and students from various promote innovative thinking. They bring multiple departments.perspectives toThis complex approach issues acceleratesby connecting learning and often leads to new research discoveries. Herefaculty are and some students examples: from various departments. This approach accelerates learning and often leads to new research discoveries. Some examples include:

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment The Princeton Institute for International and Regional is engaging researchers and students from many Studies (PIIRS) integrates Princeton’s international and academic disciplines, as well as experts from industry regional studies programs and promotes interdisciplinary and government, to tackle such issues as sustainable scholarship and learning on issues of global importance. energy development, energy conservation, and PIIRS funds a variety of programs, events, fellowships and environmental protection and remediation. The new research initiatives as well as the PIIRS Global Seminars, home for the center (architectural design plans shown which are experiential courses for Princeton students above) is scheduled to open in the summer of 2015. taught abroad by Princeton faculty during the summer.

The Center for African American Studies offers a variety of courses, lectures and research opportunities to students and faculty, promoting a multifaceted approach to the study of race that reflects political, economic, historical and cultural perspectives. Seniors earning a certificate in African American studies are recognized each year during a ceremony on Class Day.

To Learn | 19 The Future, Now Natural Sciences and Engineering

As soon as you enter your launching telescopes into pursue work that promises how the brain processes first science class, you will space and is considered the to change our future. complex information. As feel a tug from the past and father of the Hubble Space Indeed, some of their a student researcher, you a pull toward the future. Telescope. discoveries already are might work with professors You may hear references transforming how we to better understand cell In the field of genetics, to Albert Einstein, a live. You, too, can touch responses by tracing the Princeton Nobel laureate Princeton resident who, the future as an active chemical trail from neuron Eric Wieschaus, the clusters to a single neuron. although he was not a member of the scientific Squibb Professor in Or you might analyze the member of the faculty, community. You may even Molecular Biology, temperament of dogs to led a seminar on relativity get to publish a paper as an discovered how genes determine if and how their and often helped students undergraduate. control embryonic breed-wise traits relate to with their math problems. development. In the relatively new their brain structures. You also may hear about field of neuroscience, Princeton researchers also Princeton astrophysicist Today, the scientists researchers are studying Lyman Spitzer, who in and researchers in our are trying to harness an everything from sports- explosion of information the 1940s dreamed about classrooms continue to related concussions to

Amazing Research Collaborations

Jeremy Kasdin Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research focus: Space systems design, orbital mechanics, guidance and control of space vehicles, optics, exoplanet imaging. I currently work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on technologies that could accompany a future space telescope for imaging planets orbiting other stars. We also work with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan to develop instruments for exoplanet imaging at the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Experience working with students: Dyrda — went to the Jet Propulsion for sensing the wavefront error in a I’ve had the pleasure of working Laboratory and worked with an coronagraph. This is an alternative with many undergraduates over engineer there to build prototype technique for removing the starlight the years. I’ve typically hired three “petals.” These petals were then from an image in order to see the to four freshmen and sophomores used last summer in our test of an orbiting planet. Katie’s concept is each summer to work in my lab, and exoplanet imaging concept called an being studied for a possible space I’ve advised more than 20 senior external occulter, or starshade, that telescope to fly in the next decade. theses and junior papers. Several blocks the light from a star in much Both of these experiences share the have evolved into conference papers, the same way the moon blocks the common thread that undergraduates and one was published in a refereed sun during an eclipse, allowing us to are doing active research of journal. Many have won department image the dim planet nearby. importance to our overall scientific or engineering school awards. This year a graduating senior, Katie program. For example, two summers ago two Cavanagh, is working with me on students — Laurel Paxton and Dave her thesis studying new techniques

20 | To Learn in genomics and the environmental research. This across disciplines and by “One of the integration of findings from could include exploring how research hubs such as the the quantitative disciplines the oceans impact the Earth’s Andlinger Center for Energy reasons I chose to of physics, chemistry and climate or studying the and the Environment, the come to Princeton computer science. Such behavior of wild horses that Princeton Environmental is because so research can help explain, for may be descendants of those Institute, the Lewis-Sigler example, why some people that escaped 16th-century Institute for Integrative many of my who suffer a traumatic injury shipwrecks off the Outer Genomics, the Princeton heroes are here.” will live and others may die. Banks of North Carolina. Neuroscience Institute, and Carlos Brody, professor of the School of Engineering molecular biology and the You may choose to participate Your research will be and Applied Science. Princeton Neuroscience in the interdisciplinary efforts supported by extraordinary Institute that are being applied to facilities and equipment

The Mathematics of Magic

In the freshman seminar “The Mathematics of Magic Tricks and Games,” work is play and tricks are the trade. The class explores the mathematical principles behind games and magic tricks. Students then use those principles to create and master their own tricks and games. “Fun” is precisely the impression of mathematics the class is intended to leave with students, says Manjul Bhargava, the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics. “In grade school, mathematics is sometimes taught in a very robotic way of, here is the problem and here are the steps to solve it,”

Bhargava says. “As a result, “Creating the tricks is a lot use of mathematics in art, sometimes it comes off as of fun for me and usually music, games and magic,” dry, and students don’t is the first homework he adds. see the imaginative aspect. assignment I will do on Carolyn Chen, Class of This course is meant to Tuesdays,” says Jamie 2016, liked math in school show that math is not a Oliver, Class of 2016. “I put “but never loved it” until robotic science at all. It a good amount of practice taking the course. is an art and has a truly into my tricks for class and creative side. That’s how usually bring a deck of cards “This class has shown me mathematicians approach to the dining hall once a day there is a whole other side mathematics — creatively.” to show tricks to friends.” of math that I just wasn’t exposed to before. I’ve In class, students often “Though I used to think acquired a new appreciation work with decks of cards math was really only used for math and its elegance,” and perform tricks for each for the sciences, I now have Chen says. other. an appreciation for the

To Learn | 21 Addressing Timeless Questions Prepared for Any Profession Humanities and Social Sciences Sonia Sotomayor Class year: 1976 Occupation: U.S. Supreme Court justice Concentration: History Since Princeton was philosophical and historical founded as a small college issues remains the same. Ethan Coen in 1746, its curriculum Studying the diverse Class year: 1979 has been rooted in an Occupation: Filmmaker, including “Inside disciplines that make educational tradition Llewyn Davis,” “No Country for Old Men” up the humanities and stretching back to Greek and “The Big Lebowski” social sciences will help and Roman times, when Concentration: Philosophy you develop critical and great teachers emphasized analytical skills needed to David Remnick a balance of humanistic and address questions central to Class year: 1981 scientific learning as part of the human condition. As a Occupation: Editor-in-Chief, The New a liberal education. While Yorker Magazine humanist or social scientist, the number of disciplines in Concentration: Comparative Literature you can engage deeply the humanities and social with timeless and evolving sciences has expanded Jim Lee questions in such areas as Class year: 1986 since Princeton’s first days, ethics, race relations, law Occupation: Co-publisher of DC Comics the passion for examining and international studies. Concentration: Psychology enduring cultural, social, Wendy Kopp Class year: 1989 Occupation: Founder and president of Teach for America Concentration: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Mellody Hobson Class year: 1991 Occupation: President of Ariel Investments; Chair of Board of DreamWorks Animation Concentration: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Mohsin Hamid Class year: 1993 Occupation: Author of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” and “How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” Concentration: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Intellectual Collaborations “I feel exceptionally fortunate to be in this great psychology department, particularly one that has a number of people working on related issues. This makes it ripe for collaboration.” Stacey Sinclair, associate professor of psychology and African American studies, whose work explores ethnic and gender stereotyping and prejudice

2022 | To Learn Class Snapshot: Talking With Aliens

In the class “Imagined Co-instructors Joshua Discussion among the “They placed the people Languages,” undergraduates Katz, professor of classics, professors and students and ideas within a historical gain a new appreciation and and Michael Gordin, the is collaborative, and often and cultural context, and understanding for language Rosengarten Professor of challenging and convivial at students could then see by focusing on what some Modern and Contemporary the same time. how and why the material might not think of as History, bring a combi- that we covered was so “Both Professor Gordin languages at all — including nation of historical and influential. I really enjoyed and Professor Katz are computer languages, the linguistic analysis to the the class and learned a lot, incredibly knowledgeable attempt at a global language topic. The course ties not just about language and and great professors called Esperanto and even together a diverse set of linguistics but also about on their own, but the the Klingon tongue devised constructed languages with history, computer science, dynamic when the two of for use in the Star Trek the historical and cultural math and even psychology.” them taught together was movies. contexts in which they were incredible,” says Saahil created. Madge, Class of 2016.

Pursuing One’s Passion “As a freshman, [the course] sets you up for so many different disciplines. It builds you a scaffolding of all of Western thought. If you put it on your resumé, it sounds like you know everything — and, in a sense, you feel like you do.” Andrew Frazier, Class of 2015, who took the yearlong humanities “supercourse” for freshmen, “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture From Antiquity to the Modern Period”

To Learn | 23 Encounter Your Muse The Creative Arts

We take a broad view possibilities. A computer The Campus as Your • Music Theater Lab of the arts, offering a scientist, for example, Stage and Gallery courses taught by faculty vast array of resources could discover an interest that includes Broadway to support instruction, in music theory that leads We can provide a space directors John Doyle and create art and stage her to develop software for your classroom artistic John Rando. projects. Here’s a recent performances, and also a that synthesizes sound • A six-week summer sampling: commitment to integrating or automates analysis of course in Kenya the arts across all choral compositions. • A modern re-imagining on documentary disciplines. of “Much Ado About filmmaking about wildlife Many artistic pursuits Nothing” that revealed conservation, offered in Our belief that the have a home in the the darker aspects of one collaboration with the arts are central to the Department of Music of Shakespeare’s most Princeton Institute for educational mission stems and the Lewis Center beloved comedies. The International and Regional from our conviction that for the Arts, designed to play was performed by Studies, Princeton the process of creating, put creative arts at the undergraduate students Atelier, and the Princeton beyond bringing immense center of the Princeton and directed by a Environmental Institute. satisfaction to you as the experience. A wide range Princeton alumna. • Small workshop creator and to a potential of programs and options • “Muscle/Memory,” courses in poetry, audience, also develops awaits you, whether your an exploration of the fiction, translation and your ability to think in interests lie in creative relationship between screenwriting with such ways that complement writing, dance, music, sculpture and dance, faculty members as Joyce presenting new work by Carol Oates, Jeffrey learning in other theater or the visual arts. students in the programs Eugenides, Chang-rae disciplines. In some cases, of dance and visual arts. Lee, Paul Muldoon and the creative process also Tracy K. Smith. might reveal new career

24 | To Learn Performance Central sponsored readings by Teju Cole, Ann Beattie, As you study the arts at Richard Blanco, Claire Princeton, you will be Vaye Watkins and Jamaica surrounded by them. Kincaid. You won’t even need • The Program in Dance’s to leave the campus to recent festival featured experience a full range of student performances of artistic options. With such works by award-winning venues as the McCarter choreographers Bill T. Theatre Center and Jones, Kyle Abraham and Berlind Theatre, Princeton Doug Varone. benefits from fantastic • The innovative theater performances that draw company Elevator Repair audiences from around the Service recently taught the region. New York City and course, “Making Theater Philadelphia, with their Without a Script.” thriving arts scenes, also • McCarter Theatre has are nearby. Here are some hosted performances examples: by, among others, Bob • The Lewis Center Dylan, Bill Cosby, for the Arts’ Atelier Wynton Marsalis and the program — created by Alvin Ailey American novelist and professor Dance Theatre, as emerita Toni Morrison — well as productions by brings guest artists to Tony Award–winning campus to work playwrights such as collaboratively with Edward Albee and students. Participants have Christopher Durang. included cellist Yo-Yo Ma, • Academy Award– the late novelist Gabriel winning filmmaker and García Márquez and Princeton alumnus Ethan composer Laurie Coen returned to campus Anderson. for a screening and • The Althea Ward Clark discussion with faculty and W ’21 Reading Series has students. How to Write a Song The Of!ce of Admission’s video page features a look at the musical experience of students in the class “How to Write a Song,” which was taught by musician John Wesley Harding and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and professor Paul Muldoon. Visit www.princeton.edu/admission/q/sing.

To Learn | 25 Engage Yourself Theater Music • The University Band, an irreverent group of Perhaps you’ve always • The Princeton • The Princeton prankster musicians wanted to perform but Shakespeare Company, University Orchestra, with performing at sporting never had an outlet or staging plays across 100 members performing campus on campus and abroad events home and away an audience to engage. • About a dozen Student organizations and • Theatre Intime, • The Princeton a cappella groups, often arts groups can provide showcasing performances University Concert Jazz heard harmonizing under unforgettable experiences from Greek classics to Neil Ensemble, playing at Simon venues across the country one of Princeton’s many for student actors, dancers arches and musicians. Here’s an • The Princeton Triangle • The Princeton abbreviated list of student Club, touring with an University Glee Club, Dance original musical every year singing internationally organizations involved in • BodyHype, performing since 1874 the arts. everything from ballet to hip-hop • Naacho, staging a “My appreciation for the form’s scope has grown mix of traditional and contemporary Indian immensely through the dance program. dances It has pushed me as a performer, • Princeton University choreographer and thinker.” Ballet, noted for working with guest artists to stage Asawari Sodhi, Class of 2015 and dancer in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ annual Spring Dance Festival classical and original choreography • Raks Odalisque, a Middle East dance group • Sympoh Urban Arts Crew, a break dancing sensation • diSiac, performing modern, jazz and lyrical dance, and more

26 | To Learn Playing With the Stars

Noah Fishman Music major Noah Fishman (above), Class of 2016, describes his encounter on campus with Chris Thile. Thile is a mandolin virtuoso who won a Grammy Award when he was 16, and at age 31 became the youngest 2012 recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” fellowship. He appeared at Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium in October 2013.

I was jamming with some friends promotional video), two great seats outside 1879 Arch, right across close to the front. Chris walked from the Woolworth Music Center. onstage to thunderous applause. We were playing acoustic music, Without a microphone, he filled the moving between gypsy jazz, folk and hall with sound, and the audience bluegrass. Austin, a friend from the became dead silent with awe. He jazz program, was on bass. Keshav, opened with a slow movement another bandmate, was playing from Bach’s G minor partita. It guitar, and I had my mandolin. I’m was gorgeous, slow, delicate. Then, a bassist, but I’d recently picked without stopping, holding the last up mandolin because I wanted a note of Bach, he went into this smaller, more portable instrument. Louvin Brothers old-timey tune, and just started singing. Thile’s voice I had been listening to a lot of just went out through the room like Chris Thile, including the Punch a beacon. Without taking a breath, Brothers, his newest project. The he moved into this fast chorus of a Punch Brothers play high-energy tune he wrote called “Rabbit in a “chamber grass,” a hybrid of Log,” a raucous knee-slapper. The classical composition and complex whole concert was like that, each improvisation. So there I was, moment charged with mystery, held playing this mandolin solo with together by Thile’s confidence and Chris Thile very much on my mind, amazing skill. when Marna Seltzer, director of Princeton University Concerts, Afterward, Marna gave me the came out of the music building. opportunity to meet him. I went She walked up to us and listened down to the green room and waited patiently while we finished our song. in a short line. I shook his hand When we stopped, she handed me a and asked, “What do you do when poster with Chris Thile’s name and the going gets tough, musically?” picture, and the words “Richardson Thile’s advice was: Have a goal, Auditorium, Oct. 24, 2013.” Wow. I visualize the steps to getting there, took the poster and went back to my and make those steps small enough room and immediately put it up on so you can do them without getting my wall. frustrated. I think I’ll be trying to follow his advice for a long time. Marna gave me free tickets for the concert (because I had made a To Learn | 27 Great Minds, Committed Faculty

Many of our professors Students Challenge Me to Look Again are household names. They have held major “I very often learn from my students in the classroom. policymaking positions Sometimes I will have a perspective on a subject that’s hard to in government or are get out of my head because I’m writing about it. I’ve had many celebrated authors of fiction and poetry. Some moments when students have changed that. They come from are stars in the classroom a different personal and intellectual place, and they challenge or the laboratory and well me to look again at the material and to either think about it known by their academic differently, or to sharpen the reason I think something. colleagues. Others are columnists, and many “I’ve also had moments when work that I’m doing for a book are regularly consulted changes as a result of a class. So students here often push me as as experts by the media. much as I push them.” Twelve current faculty members are Nobel Julian Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of History and Public Affairs laureates, and others are MacArthur Fellows, Pulitzer Prize recipients fields, our professors have relationships with Many professors approach and members of the a passion for teaching and their professors. Those teaching and learning as a National Academy of they focus their talents on relationships regularly two-way exchange. They Science. undergraduates. They lead extend beyond their time relish the classroom give- At Princeton, these faculty freshman seminars, serve as at Princeton. Often, for and-take, communicating members are not just thesis advisers for juniors example, students reach out ideas gained from years luminaries viewed from and seniors, and counsel to an undergraduate thesis of research, but also afar. You will work with students on academic goals. adviser when pursuing enhancing their ideas with them up close. In addition graduate study, or connect student insights. Both the With a low student-faculty to sharing a distinction with a faculty member to giver and the recipient say ratio of 6 to 1, students for excellence in their advance scientific research. the exchange is magical. often form meaningful

President and Scholar Christopher L. Eisgruber, Class of 1983, became Princeton’s 20th president after serving as the University’s provost. A renowned constitutional scholar and professor of public affairs, he has taught freshman seminars about the role of universities in the common good, as well as the Supreme Court and constitutional democracy. Eisgruber says Princeton is a world-class university with a distinctive emphasis on undergraduate liberal arts education and a deep commitment to service, and is a warm and engaged campus community. 28 | To Learn A Passion for Teaching “I was talking with a professor recently about whether he might be interested in coming to Princeton. And one of the things I said to him was, ‘I need to know whether or not you care about teaching,’ because up front at Princeton there is a real mantra that you must have a passion for teaching. It is not enough to want to be at this place that I tend to refer to as ‘an intellectual heaven.’ It really is the case that you have to want to nurture the next generation of intellects.” Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment; director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

A Commitment to Undergraduates “Normally, in the academic profession, job candidates give a one-hour talk on their research. Here in the history department at Princeton, however, the first thing job candidates do is give a presentation on their approach to undergraduate teaching. After that, the interview turns to research interests. “That commitment to teaching runs deep here and truly is what makes this place — from the perspective of its faculty — different.” Jonathan Levy, assistant professor of history

To Learn | 29 Some of Our (Many) Notables

Cecilia Rouse Eddie Glaude Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School William S. Tod Professor of Religion of Public and International Affairs and African American Studies; chair, Specialty: Labor economics; the Center for African American Studies economics of education Specialty: Race, politics and religion Noteworthy: Served as a member of Noteworthy: Often quoted on CNN President Barack Obama’s Council of and PBS as an expert on contemporary Economic Advisers from 2009–11. race or culture issues. Tidbit: Her sister, Carolyn Rouse, is a Tidbit: His blog on the Huffington professor of anthropology at Princeton. Post on the death of the black church sparked a national debate on the role of this venerable institution.

“As renowned scholars, leading researchers, and innovators in their academic fields, Princeton professors bring much more than their knowledge to the classroom. They bring their passion, their creativity and their commitment. They expose Mung Chiang Bonnie Bassler students not just to the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Squibb Professor in Molecular Electrical Engineering; director, Biology; chair, Department of answers we already know, Keller Center Molecular Biology but to the questions Specialty: Communication, social and Specialty: Cell-to-cell communication that will guide what we economic networks; the effectiveness in bacteria of different online learning systems discover in the future. Noteworthy: Serves on the National Noteworthy: He received the National Science Board, which oversees the They communicate, in Science Foundation’s highest honor, National Science Foundation, the word and deed, why the the Alan T. Waterman Award, for major source of federal funding for researchers age 35 and under. scientific research. pursuit of knowledge Tidbit: He is the co-founder of Tidbit: Recognized internationally for matters.” two technology start-ups and the her commitment to science education, Deborah Prentice, dean of the faculty online Coursera version of his class she has received a L’Oréal-UNESCO “Networks: Friends, Money and Women in Science Award and a Bytes” has drawn more than 180,000 MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the students. “genius grant”), among other honors.

30 | To Learn Christopher Sims Tracy K. Smith Uwe Reinhardt John F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of creative writing James Madison Professor of Political Professor of Economics Specialty: Poetry Economy; professor of economics and public affairs Specialty: Econometrics and banking Noteworthy: Won the 2012 Pulitzer Specialty: Health care economist Noteworthy: Received the 2011 Prize in poetry for her collection “Life Nobel Prize in economics with on Mars.” The book’s poems are set in Noteworthy: Sits on the editorial New York University economist a futuristic place, but explore the dark boards of many major health journals Thomas Sargent. They were credited moments of human life on Earth in the and is a contributor to The New York with revolutionizing the field of present. Times. macroeconomics and how it is applied Tidbit: She first learned she had won Tidbit: He’s known for his wit. On by central banks and governments. the Pulitzer Prize after her husband “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” he said Tidbit: Hours after learning they happened to read the news online. navigating managed care was akin to had won the Nobel Prize, Sims and walking through Macy’s blindfolded Sargent, who was serving at the time and being told to find “a nice blouse as a visiting Princeton professor, that fits you and make sure the price returned to the classroom to teach. is right.”

Lyman Page Jill Dolan Michael Oppenheimer Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Annan Professor of English; professor Albert G. Milbank Professor of Physics of theater; director, Program in Geosciences and International Affairs Gender and Sexuality Studies Specialty: Cosmology. His research Specialty: The effects of climate measures and analyzes the spatial Specialty: Theater and drama; change and climate change policy variations in the cosmic microwave performance studies; LGBT and Noteworthy: A long-time participant background, the oldest light in the feminist studies in the Intergovernmental Panel on universe. Noteworthy: A leader in the fields Climate Change, which received the Noteworthy: A co-investigator of the of performance studies and feminist 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy criticism, Dolan was named a U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Probe. Data from the NASA 2013 Distinguished Scholar by Tidbit: He came to Princeton in 2002 spacecraft helped firmly establish the the American Society for Theater after more than two decades with model that describes the history and Research. the Environmental Defense Fund, structure of the universe. Tidbit: Her arts blog, “The Feminist a nongovernmental environmental Tidbit: He once worked at a cosmic-ray Spectator,” was the first website to win organization. station in Antarctica and spent two the prestigious George Jean Nathan years sailing along the East Coast of Award for Dramatic Criticism. the United States. To Learn | 31 We Support Your Academic Success

We want you to find as Academic and discipline and can help at physics, biology, economics much success as enjoyment Advising Resources any stage of the writing and statistics during the in your academic life at process. academic year. Library System Princeton. Before you • Conferences complement, • The New Media Center at even go to your first class, • Extensive digital but do not replace, McGraw provides access to you can take advantage of holdings and more than students’ relationships cutting-edge digital media the University’s extensive 8 million books are housed with their professors and technologies, and assistance in 10 buildings across advising resources and advisers. with audiovisual editing, campus. support networks. Deans Web development and • Electronic resources McGraw Center for design. and directors of studies Teaching and Learning in the residential colleges connect scholars with information across the • Workshops and Information Technology are available to help you and Computing globe. individual consultations shape your academic support undergraduates • Wireless service is • The main library, plans, and professors as they transition from available throughout campus, Firestone Library, is a and departmental student to scholar. including dorm rooms. distinguished resource for representatives can the humanities and social • Students learn how to • Technology help is guide you on specific sciences. manage large reading loads, available in residential academic matters. You take effective notes, prepare colleges, at the OIT tech will be able to consult Writing Center for exams and develop clinic and by phone 24/7. with undergraduate peer • Free, one-on-one effective study tools. • Students have access to advisers in the residential conferences are offered with • Weekly study halls more than 40 computer colleges and participate in experienced writers. offer peer tutoring labs for collaborative work, study halls in a variety of • Writing Center fellows in introductory-level and access to more than 50 disciplines. are trained to consult mathematics, chemistry, printers and 200 computers with specialized software. All freshmen in the A.B. on assignments in any program are assigned to faculty advisers in their residential colleges who assist with course selections and other academic matters throughout the year. Most students continue working with the same adviser through the sophomore year. Faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science advise freshmen in the B.S.E. program. B.S.E. sophomores are assigned advisers in their chosen departments.

32 | To Learn Individual Attention

Why were you interested “The individual Nicole Shelton in serving as a master? Butler College master, As a professor, I spend attention that professor of psychology several hours per week in the classroom with students. students at and former faculty Although those hours Princeton receive adviser are extremely important, I recognize that a lot of from their faculty Could you briefly explain learning occurs outside of what a college master the classroom, and those advisers simply does? All freshmen and experiences can shape what does not occur at sophomores, and some occurs in the classroom. As juniors and seniors, are the Butler College master, other schools.” members of residential I help develop programs colleges. The college that integrate the curricular master sets the tone for and co-curricular. I also the college community — am able to meet students providing an intellectual whose paths might never abilities and comfortable for the sophomore year, and programmatic vision. cross mine in the classroom expressing themselves at however, most are eager to The college master works because of their academic Princeton. Many freshmen pick a class that they never with the dean of the interest. arrive very nervous about imagined taking. college, director of studies not picking the “right” You also have served as What is the most common and director of student classes. They often want a faculty adviser. What question freshmen would life to build a sense of to stick to the basic classes is your favorite part of ask you about academic community for students they took in high school. working with students? advising? “Do I really have and faculty fellows By the time students meet My favorite part is seeing to take statistics to major in associated with the college. with their faculty adviser in students become more psychology?” (Yes.) the spring to select classes confident about their

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To Learn | 33 To Grow Our Global Village

Welcome to our global village. Expect to hear the perspectives and languages of teachers and students from around the country and the world. Never again are you likely to live in such a rich cultural milieu. You will encounter people of every race and ethnicity, from every socioeconomic background, the deeply religious and those with no religious beliefs. In such a diverse environment, know that what will unify you is your thirst for knowledge.

This is your chance to expand your horizons. It is your time to explore the world you know and the one you don’t. Whether you spend the next four years on campus, or venture across the seas for study and immersion, your experiences will likely change the way you think forever.

34 | To Grow To Grow | 35 Expand Your Horizons

Come to Princeton and meet undergraduate and experience the world. graduate students from We are a community that nearly 100 countries, take “My job is to help welcomes and celebrates all any number of courses students see that cultures. We feel the best that incorporate global Princeton is their portal way to learn from other topics, learn from faculty cultures is to experience who come from around the into the world.” them firsthand. You may world, and attend countless Jeremy Adelman, the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture and study abroad, participate in events on campus that professor of history international internships in celebrate students’ diverse approximately 60 countries, traditions and perspectives.

International Opportunities • During the 2013–14 academic year, students from 31 academic departments studied in 30 countries. • In 2013, 401 students received University credit for summer study abroad. • Approximately 160 Princeton regional alumni associations throughout the world can help students with career and social connections.

36 | To Grow To Grow | 37 The World Awaiting You

Learn a new language. students to spend a year Taste different foods. Meet of public service abroad, new people. Make a home prior to the start of their in a setting completely freshman year. Students unknown to you. Embrace are invited to apply for the challenge to grow and the Bridge Year Program learn in a new environment. after they have accepted Throughout your time at Princeton’s offer of Princeton, you can take part admission. Placements in a variety of international are currently offered programs that students say in nongovernmental have enriched their academic organizations, schools, work, challenged their clinics and other assumptions, opened their institutions serving local eyes to different viewpoints communities in Brazil, and, for many, changed the China, India, Peru and course of their lives. Senegal. Groups of seven Bridge Year Princeton students are placed at each program Launched in 2009, location. Princeton’s Bridge Year is a tuition-free program that enables newly admitted

Study Abroad receive support from the You are strongly University while studying encouraged to study abroad during the abroad as part of your academic year. Princeton experience. The If you do not go abroad Office of International during the academic Programs supports year, you can join the students with all aspects many students who of their overseas journeys. spend the summer You can receive University abroad. You can enroll credit for a semester or in an intensive language a full year of study in or seminar program an approved program affiliated with Princeton, or institution abroad. or take preapproved Students in all majors are courses offered by other eligible to study overseas institutions. You also can during the fall and spring use University grants to semester of sophomore spend the summer doing or junior year, or the fall independent research for semester of senior year. your senior thesis or work Students who receive in an internship abroad. financial aid continue to

38 | To Grow Best Year of My Life

Nick Sexton “International experiences broaden personal Class year: 2017 and academic perspectives, enhancing Bridge Year placement: I spent the 2012–13 academic year in on-campus studies while preparing students Varanasi, India, working for the for life in a globalized world.” nonprofit NIRMAN teaching English, history and science to Nancy Kanach, director of the Office of International Programs and seventh graders. senior associate dean of the college Bridge Year experience: My year in India was debatably the most formative year of my life. Fresh out of high school, being away from home for nine months in such a vastly different environment is challenging — but it is also incredibly conducive to growth and learning. I felt empowered having a job, navigating the city’s dusty streets, and bartering with fruit vendors in Hindi. By the end of the year, I realized just how well I had come to know my students. They made me cards, trying to fit as many vocabulary words that we covered during the year onto a single piece of paper. Their International Academic Internships and cards now hang on my dorm Opportunities Service Opportunities room wall. Being immersed in North From exploring ruins In addition to your Indian culture gave me valuable of ancient theaters in academic work, you can perspective about the way the Greece to studying coral participate in a number of world works and my place in it. reef ecology in Bermuda, international internships or I got to scale the Himalayas, sit under the tree where Gautama you can travel the world service opportunities that Buddha attained enlightenment through your academic focus on global concerns and celebrate the festival of classes and independent such as education, the Holi where revelers spray each work. Examples include environment, health care other with colored water (photo the Woodrow Wilson and social justice. The below). Going to India made me a much more humble and School of Public and International Internship grateful person. On campus, I International Affairs’ Program offers summer feel like I appreciate what I am policy-oriented task forces placements in more than 60 learning much more than I at overseas institutions; countries in both the public would have if I hadn’t done Bridge Year. the Department of Ecology and private sectors. Recent and Evolutionary Biology’s graduates can connect semester-long fieldwork with a range of worldwide in Panama or Kenya; and service opportunities the Princeton Institute for through the affiliated International and Regional Princeton in Africa, Studies’ summer seminars Princeton in Asia, and around the globe. Princeton in Latin America programs.

To Grow | 39 Where I Went Last Summer

Dee Luo (right) Class year: 2016 Where: Kampala, Uganda What: I interned at the Bayimba Cultural Foundation, which works with artists in Uganda to strengthen the role of the arts in society and the economy. I helped the foundation run a regional music festival for more than 3,000 people.

William Squiers Class year: 2016 Where: Italy and Poland What: I participated in the PIIRS Global Seminar “The Global Ghetto,” about the origin and evolution of ghettos. I also had time to sightsee and visit places like St. Peter’s Basilica. Global seminars are sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, allowing undergraduates to Doug Wallack spend a summer living and learning abroad. Class year: 2016 Where: Beijing, China What: I spent eight weeks studying intensive Mandarin through the Princeton in Beijing summer program, which took place on the campus of Beijing Normal University.

40 | To Grow Program Spotlight: Global Health Initiative

What: The Global Health International Affairs, and certificate in global health Course offerings include: Initiative is one of the extends to partnerships and health policy. “Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine: From many academic programs with departments across Student experience: Hippocrates to Galen”; designed to tackle global campus and organizations Through collaborations “Medical Anthropology”; problems. Students around the world. with international and faculty in various “Drug Discovery in Description: The organizations, students disciplines study issues the Genomics Era”; program emphasizes have rigorous practical such as HIV and AIDS “Immune Systems: multidisciplinary training opportunities in Africa, access to health From Molecules to approaches, hands-on field in policy and research care in Latin America Population”; “Economics research and study of the centers, government and the prevention of of Health and Health policy dimensions of global institutions, laboratories, malaria in Sierra Leone Care”; “Introduction health. Health research nongovernmental through research projects, to Bioengineering and projects are integrated organizations, and classes and international Medical Devices”; and with teaching in the hospitals and clinics. internships. “Infection: Biology, classroom and in the field Students are exposed to Burden, Policy.” Who: The interdisciplinary to investigate critical issues the myriad ways they initiative is based within in the United States and can address health issues the Woodrow Wilson globally. Undergraduates within the United States School of Public and may earn a program and overseas.

To Grow | 41 A Culturally Rich and Diverse Campus

We believe that learning is enhanced by a diversity of opinions and experiences. Our classrooms are free- flowing marketplaces of ideas. Discussions take surprising twists and turns as students, guided by their professors, challenge preconceived notions and arrive at new understandings and knowledge. Forty percent of our undergraduates are Americans of color, and 11 percent are from outside the United States. Students come from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. A walk across the campus will likely expose you to a symphony of sounds from students and faculty from around the world. The encounters with other cultures, languages and ideas whet the appetite for international experiences and build an awareness of global perspectives. The makeup of our student body contributes to an enlightened exchange of opinions not only in classrooms, but at cultural events, social gatherings, athletic tournaments and just about any other place you can imagine. Undergraduates 2013–14 Men 51 percent Americans of Color Women 49 percent Asian American 20 percent International Students 11 percent African American 8 percent Hispanic/Latino 8 percent Multiracial 4 percent American Indian < 1 percent Paci!c Islander < 1 percent 42 | To Grow Socioeconomic Diversity Princeton is need-blind, which means that if you qualify for admission, the University will ensure that cost is not an obstacle. In fact, Princeton’s financial aid policy, which applies to both domestic and international students, is among the most generous in the country. About 60 percent of our students receive financial aid. We were the first in the country to implement a no-loan program, which means all of our financial aid packages are built on grants, not loans that have to be repaid. For that reason, it is possible to graduate from Princeton without debt; 75 percent of Princeton students graduate debt free. The remaining 25 percent of students who choose to borrow use the funds to cover incidental expenses, such as a laptop computer, and graduate with an average total indebtedness of $5,500.

Financial Aid • The University’s no-loan aid program makes it possible to graduate from Princeton debt free. • The average grant for aid students admitted to the Class of 2018 is an estimated $42,600. • For students admitted to the Class of 2018 whose families earn $60,000 or less, the average aid package covers their full tuition, room and board. • 75 percent of students graduate debt free To Grow | 43 Parlez-vous …? From Brazilian Pop to South Asian Fusion More than 20 modern languages are taught at Princeton, and you can also practice informally Princeton is enriched by and serve as a resource at weekly language tables in the dining halls. a variety of international for students. Nearly any • Arabic • Korean and intercultural programs day of the week you can • Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian • Latin and organizations that experience the diverse • Chinese • Persian welcome participation flavor of the campus at • Czech • Polish from all students. Various events such as these: • French • Portuguese centers, including the • Historical tour of • German • Russian Davis International Center Spanish Harlem in • Greek (classical and • Spanish and the Fields Center for New York led by a salsa modern) • Swahili Equality and Cultural musicologist • Hebrew • Turkish Understanding, bring • Hindi • Twi • Exhibition on the end together members of the • Italian • Urdu of apartheid in South • Japanese campus community from Africa an array of backgrounds

44 | To Grow First in His Family

Caleb Bradford Class year: 2015 Caleb Bradford attended 11 schools in the 12 years before he came to • South Asian fusion Princeton. The Huntsville, Alabama, dance competition native made his first move when he was 6 after his parents separated. • Brazilian pop music Because of his father’s difficulty lecture finding work, he moved over the next • African film festival decade to schools in Florida, Texas, • Tea-and-talk Georgia and Tennessee. international discussion Bradford, a mechanical and aerospace group engineering major, is the first male • Discussion on of his eight half-brothers and sisters traditional Islam in the to graduate from high school and the modern world first in his family to go to college. But the frequent moves took their toll. “That experience of being the wrestling teams, but had to cut back new kid 11 times definitely helped the following year so that he could shape me,” Bradford recalls. “I had work after school to support his difficulty speaking in front of others, family. On average, he says he slept and I had somewhat of an anxiety four hours a night. In his junior year, problem, but that experience and that in part because he went to so many exposure helped me break out of my low-performing schools, Bradford isolation and come into my own.” still had no idea where he would go One of the ways he came into his own after graduating. Then he and his was through academics. He exhibited father moved back to Huntsville, an early interest in rockets, robotics, which gave him an opportunity not science and math. Throughout the only to be closer to his mother and difficult years, Bradford says he half-siblings, but also to get access to remained a perfect “A” student. a better school district. “Whenever I was in the school His guidance counselor encouraged setting, I was able to block out all the Bradford to apply for a Gates adversity and focus and concentrate,” Scholarship, sponsored by the Bill he says. and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Although he never considered himself a QuestBridge Scholarship, which special, his parents had a sense from targets low-income gifted students. an early age that he was academically He qualified for both. He began gifted. At age 5, when the family applying to colleges, including all went to the grocery store, it was of the Ivy League schools. He was his responsibility to keep a running accepted to every one of them. total in his head of the grocery bill. Overall, Bradford believes he was When they reached the cash register, blessed. He credits his father, an halfway through the checkout, he aspiring preacher, for being his would announce the tally. Recalling biggest supporter, confidante and the experience, he laughs and says, most trusted mentor. “He definitely “I think at most my deviation was helped shape me into the person about 50 cents.” I am today with my convictions and He was a gifted athlete, too. In his values,” he says. sophomore year of high school, he was on the varsity track, football and

To Grow | 45 “The Center for Jewish Life is committed Spiritual Connections to creating a warm environment that is open and welcoming to every Jewish student at Princeton and to anyone who With 15 chaplaincies and The Office of Religious Life wants to be a part of our dynamic and various faith-based student The Office of Religious vibrant community. Through the CJL, organizations, it’s easy to Life supports the religious students participate in festive Shabbat find your religious home interests of students, faculty and holiday meals and celebrations, at Princeton. You will have and staff of various faiths. creative-themed study breaks, domestic opportunities to explore Through its programs, you and international service-learning and deepen your faith, can engage in community trips, and numerous other significant if that is your desire. At service and crosscultural opportunities to foster meaningful Jewish the same time, you will and social action programs, connections and experiences.” have options for building such as a recent student Rabbi Julie Roth, executive director, Center for Jewish Life/Hillel at Princeton bridges between faiths, as trip to Cambodia to learn well as between religious about religion and human and nonreligious students rights. It also sponsors the University Chapel Center for Jewish Life on campus. By learning Religious Life Council, about different worldviews, which brings together The University Chapel The Center for Jewish you may develop a fuller students of all faiths to welcomes all students to its Life/Hillel at Princeton understanding of your learn from one another. ecumenical services. You University (CJL) builds own beliefs and a new may participate in study and sustains a welcoming, appreciation for those held and discussion groups, caring and multi-faceted by others. conferences, the Chapel community of peers that is Deacons program, trips integrated into the fabric abroad, retreats, Chapel of campus life at Princeton. Choir, drama and social CJL provides a comfortable action. In addition to environment for students to explore their connections Murray-Dodge Café the chapel, other sacred places on campus provide to Judaism and Jewish life The Of!ce of Religious Life runs the Murray-Dodge space for students to pray, — spiritual, educational, Café, which offers free coffee, hot cocoa, tea and meditate or quietly reflect, cultural and social — in freshly baked cookies from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. such as the Interfaith ways that are personally during the academic year. Meditation Room and the meaningful and relevant. Muslim Prayer Room. The CJL is a student- driven organization that engages students in a broad spectrum of activities and empowers them to become leaders of the Jewish community at Princeton University. It also houses a kosher dining hall that is open to all Princeton ID cardholders.

46 | To Grow Find a Religious Home Princeton hosts a number of campus chaplaincies, student-organized religious groups and gatherings for worship. • Aquinas Institute (Roman Catholic) • Athletes in Action • Bahá’í Club • Baptist Student Fellowship • Center for Jewish Life • Century One • Chabad • Chapel Deacons • Chapel Student Fellowship • Christian Science Organization • Episcopal Church at Princeton (Anglican) • Faculty Commons • Hallelujah! • Hindu Chaplaincy • Hour of Power • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship • Latter-Day Saints • LEGACY • Lutheran Campus Ministry • Manna Christian Fellowship • Muslim Chaplaincy • Muslim Students’ Association • Orthodox Christian Fellowship • Princeton Buddhist Students’ Group • Princeton Chabad Student Group • Princeton Evangelical Fellowship • Princeton Faith and Action • Princeton Graduate Christian Fellowship • Princeton Hindu Satsangam • Princeton Presbyterians • Princeton University Gospel Ensemble • Seventh-Day Adventists • Sikhs of Princeton • Unitarian Universalists Campus Community • Wesley Foundation (Methodist) • Yavneh

“The increasing diversity of Princeton’s student body is bringing a wonderful diversity of religious traditions as well.” Alison Boden, dean of religious life and the chapel

To Grow | 47 48 | To Connect To Connect Where You Belong

As the sun rises over Princeton, the campus slowly comes alive. On Lake Carnegie, eight women hoist a shell, walk to the dock’s edge and gently roll it into the water.

Outside Dillon Gym, a few early risers stretch and dash off. Students on bikes, skateboards and scooters whiz past. Two roommates walk to class carrying their backpacks.

A leaded glass window pops open to receive the morning light. A Gothic spire pierces the sky. In Butler, Forbes, Mathey, Rockefeller, Whitman and Wilson, the dining halls begin to fill. Three undergraduates grab seats at a broad oak table. Another walks briskly past a mountain of pastries and grabs one, almost upsetting the pile. In Richardson Auditorium, a sound-and-light crew begins to assemble a set for the evening’s music performance.

The tulip magnolias are just beginning to bloom. A landscaper is tending the garden behind Prospect House, and from above you can begin to discern the outline of the Princeton shield among the plants. Something will mark this day. A friendship formed. A goal surpassed. An epiphany. And as the day unfolds, you think, “This is where I belong.”

To Connect | 49 “The residential colleges Welcome Home are meant to create a multilayered community that, bringing together Campus living at activities, athletics and perspective on academics. undergraduates, Princeton is a distinctly cultural events there. Residential college graduate students, welcoming and Some courses are offered advisers (RCAs) are staff and faculty, community-focused in the colleges, as well upperclassmen who enhances the lives and experience. Before as academic advising. assume leadership experiences our students you arrive, you will be Every college is staffed by positions in the can have at Princeton. randomly assigned to a senior faculty member residential colleges, and Understanding that one of the six residential who is the college master, each is assigned to about education takes place colleges, where you are as well as a host of other 17 freshmen. RCAs are both inside and outside likely to form friendships faculty/staff advisers. responsible for arranging the classroom, part of and memories that last everything from study my charge is therefore Peer advisers are a lifetime. Nearly 98 breaks to issues-related to ensure that where outstanding juniors percent of undergraduates discussions. the students live is also and seniors who live on campus. a place where they can receive training to Many of our students continue to learn.” Residential colleges are provide academic identify themselves Eduardo Cadava, Wilson College essentially neighborhoods. advice to freshmen with their residential master and professor of English In your first two years, and sophomores. They college throughout their you will eat and sleep in complement the work undergraduate years. your residential college, of faculty advisers and engage in social by offering a student

50 | To Connect With Roots Deeply Planted The seed for Princeton’s residential college system was planted more than 100 years ago. Woodrow Wilson, borrowing from the organizational structures of Oxford and Cambridge universities in Great Britain, "rst proposed a residential college system for Princeton in 1907. He envisioned groups of self-governed units led by a faculty master. Each college, supported by its own dining hall, would become intimate social units where students with diverse academic interests would live and share ideas. In 1957, the "rst modern residential college, Wilson, came into being. In the early 1980s, the University revamped dormitories and dining halls to create "ve two-year residential colleges: Butler, Forbes, Mathey, Rockefeller and Wilson. Whitman was added in 2007 as a four- year college, and Mathey and Butler also are now four-year colleges.

To Connect | 51 It’s All Happening in the Residential Colleges

Following is a sample of Student gallery exhibits at The Residential College residential college activities Butler. Students show their Activity Board open to all students. work in the James S. Hall ’34 Memorial Gallery. • Trips to New York City, Philadelphia, the Black Box dances at Wilson wilderness and beyond College. Students converge Weekly yoga and salsa classes • Colloquia with faculty, performing artists on the theatrical space to hear at Whitman College. The dance and nationally recognized speakers a live DJ and hit the dance studio is fully equipped with • Freshman seminar classes floor from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Marley floors, a barre and • Special event and themed dinners • Intramural sports many Friday nights. floor-to-ceiling mirrors. • Music, art, theater, !lm and dance activities J Street Media Center at Whitman Book Club. • Student-organized discussion groups and Wilson College. Student Whitmanites meet weekly community service bands practice and cut tracks to discuss works by Anton with state-of-the-art audio Chekov, Virginia Woolf and Food for Thought equipment. Visual artists use others. The residential college dining halls cook up different menus every day. Here’s a sampling of multimedia programs to edit Monday night film forum some favorites: video. at Rocky/Mathey theater. • Made-to-order omelets Students, professors and Writers Studio in Blair Tower, • Lemon ricotta pancakes Mathey College. The studio, a townspeople view and discuss • Vegetarian and vegan salads space for writers and readers great films. • Garlic mashed potatoes of all kinds to drop in and Dinner talk at Forbes College. • Chicken lemongrass dumplings • Broiled Mahi Mahi and mango work, is open every night. Recent guests have included • Five spice pulled pork Refreshments and literary Sheldon Garon, the Nissan • Bok choy stir fry with steamed jasmine rice journals provided. Activities Professor in Japanese Studies • Portobello edamame sliders include discussions with and professor of history and creative writing professors, East Asian studies, on his novelists and playwrights; book “Beyond Our Means: literary magazine publication Why America Spends While “I think what I like most about the parties; and outings to literary the World Saves”; and David residential college system is the events. Spergel, the Charles A. Young sense of community. When you Walter Lord Society dinner Professor of Astronomy on walk into the dining hall, you can discussions at Mathey College. the Class of 1897 Foundation, sit down with anyone you know. Students discuss politics, on the subject “Taking the When you’re walking along the public events and life at Universe’s Baby Picture.” paths of your college, you find Princeton over dinner in the End-of-year barbeque. yourself saying ‘Hi’ to so many Mathey private dining room Residents of Mathey and twice a month. Rockefeller colleges celebrate people. When you’re studying in Open mic night at Butler in the Blair-Joline courtyard. the study rooms, everyone has the College. Singers, songwriters, same sense of community and the dancers, poets, comedians and same environment.” others take the stage in Wu Adoley Ammah-Tagoe, Class of 2014, Café. Butler College resident

52 | To Connect To Connect | 53 Eating Clubs Just over two-thirds of With the exception of spaces and media rooms Six eating clubs engage juniors and seniors join some officers, students do with computers. Many in a selection process in one of the eating clubs, not live at the clubs. clubs regularly invite which students apply for which are operated by professors or outside membership and five clubs Club activities include student officers under the speakers to dine with are non-selective. dinner discussions, auspices of independent members. dances, study breaks, Any student who isn’t alumni boards. Eating community service Most students who join admitted to a selective clubs serve as dining projects, intramural sports a club continue to live club may sign in to a club facilities and social and general relaxation. on campus while eating with open membership. centers for their members, Eating clubs also host at their club. Some providing a place to Financial aid students guests and the larger juniors and seniors who gather informally and for receive help covering campus community for join a club and live in a activities. The clubs serve the cost of eating club concerts, parties and other residential college split daily meals prepared by membership. The events. their meal plans between a head chef and staff, and allowance is calculated their college and their guest meals and meal Clubs include game based on the average cost club. exchanges are available to rooms, libraries, study of an eating club meal all students. plan. Living and Dining Options Housing Dining * Notes Freshman and Sophomore Year

Residential college Eat in residential college dining halls. Entering freshmen are randomly assigned to one of six residential colleges. Junior and Senior Year

Residential college Eat in residential college dining halls. Some of the juniors and seniors in residential colleges, who are also members of one of the 11 eating clubs, split their meal plans between their residential college and their eating club.

Upperclass housing • Purchase a University meal plan to eat About 66 percent of upperclass students at residential college dining halls, or join eating clubs. • Join one of the 11 eating clubs, or About 4 percent of upperclass students join co-ops. • Join one of three student eating co- operatives where students buy their food in bulk and share shopping, cooking and cleaning chores.

On-campus independent housing Make your own eating arrangements, About 10 percent of upperclass students such as cooking in student kitchens in live in independent housing. the dormitories. Independent housing includes suites in Spelman Halls, which have kitchens, or rooms in upperclass dormitories that are located near full-service kitchens.

Live off campus Make whatever eating arrangements Only 2 percent of students choose to live you wish. off campus, and some of them live in the eating clubs as of!cers of the clubs.

Note: All juniors and seniors, regardless of where they live, may eat two free meals a week in any residential college.

* University meal plans also include kosher dining at the Center for Jewish Life, while all residential college dining halls offer halal options. Students may also eat at retail dining outlets on campus, such as the Frist Campus Center Food Gallery.

54 | To Connect Home Away From Home It’s Easy to Be Green

Justin Perez (left) Divya Farias Class year: 2014 Class year: 2015 When I was accepted to Princeton, I was beyond It’s really important to me that my food comes from excited about what the next four years were about to ethical and sustainable sources, and I have found a offer me, but at the same time I had a lot of questions remarkable number of ways to make informed choices about the social scene. I was intimidated by the eating about eating at Princeton. club system because I didn’t know what it entailed, or I have been vegetarian since arriving at Princeton, if I could find a place where I would fit. and I’ve found the dining halls to be especially However, that all changed my sophomore spring accommodating. Campus Dining clearly displays when I joined the Cap and Gown Club. I chose to the animal product and allergen contents of all items apply to Cap not only because of the times spent in being served, so it’s easy to spot the non-meat options the club with some of the other students in my year, and eat a balanced diet. I’ve also been exploring vegan but because after meeting a few of the older members options, and I’ve found that I still have quite a variety I realized that joining an eating club is about much of dishes to choose from during any meal. Vegetarian more than nights out on “The Street,” the unofficial versions of meat-based entrees are often served, and name of Prospect Avenue where the eating clubs are the dining hall menus also routinely feature vegan located. Every aspect of the club — from lounging protein like seitan, tofu and tempeh. There are even in the TV room, to studying in the library, to sitting good vegan baked goods. down at every single meal with the knowledge that I am also a member of the Princeton Garden Project, a you always have a place at the table — helped me find student initiative that serves as a model for sustainable my home away from home. food production by providing fresh, chemical-free The formal and semiformal parties, themed nights, produce grown and harvested right here on campus. board game nights and intramural championships my Working in the garden gives me a chance to do club won will certainly remain in my heart as some something very physical, simple and natural, while of the best memories I have of Princeton. However, hanging out with friends. what are even more important to me are the lifelong I’m really grateful to have found so many outlets for friendships I have been able to forge and the traditions making informed choices about what I eat and helping that I have had the opportunity to carry through 2014, to foster dialogue and thought on campus about where particularly as president of Cap my senior year. As a our food comes from. member of any eating club, you have a home at your club for the rest of your life — and with this in mind I recommend to everyone this uniquely Princeton experience.

To Connect | 55 Location, Location, Location

The University’s historic Students frequently travel accessible by train, and the The town of Princeton, and beautiful 500-acre to New York City and New Jersey Shore is about with its 30,000 residents, main campus in the Philadelphia for cultural an hour away. Cultural and is a pedestrian-friendly, New Jersey community events, and both cities offer dining options are plentiful tree-lined community with of Princeton is about internship possibilities. on campus and in the ample shopping. equidistant from the major Washington, D.C., is also surrounding community. urban centers of New York City and Philadelphia. By train, it is possible for you to travel from Princeton Junction to New York City or Philadelphia in about an hour or less. A train in Princeton will take you directly to and from Princeton Junction in about five minutes. If you’re traveling by air, Newark Liberty International Airport is 40 miles to the north and Philadelphia International Airport is 55 miles to the south. Both are accessible by commuter rail.

Broadway Bound

Outings sponsored by the residential colleges are just one way students can experience New York City’s countless arts, music and cultural activities. Whitman College arranges Broadway bus trips for its residents, where a New York night includes visiting Times Square and seeing musicals such as “Wicked” or “The Book of Mormon.”

56 | To Connect Sample Campus Attractions

Nassau Hall. The sandstone building, currently used for administrative offices, briefly functioned as the nation’s capitol in 1783. It served as barracks for both the British and the American troops at different times during the Revolutionary War. Princeton University Art Museum. Founded in 1882, the museum (right) houses more than 92,000 distinguished works, from ancient to contemporary houses the University’s art. Considered one of the combined science libraries greatest comprehensive and a technology wing. Your Community museums in an academic Alexander Hall. • Princeton main campus: 500 acres setting, the museum plays Alexander Hall, one of • Buildings on campus: 180, occupying 9 million an important role in the the University’s iconic square feet education of undergraduates. buildings, was built in • Town of Princeton: 30,000 residents Each year hundreds of 1892 as a convocation • Travel time to New York City and Philadelphia: students visit the museum hall for large University about an hour as part of their studies in gatherings. Today, dozens of disciplines. The Richardson Auditorium museum also offers student in Alexander Hall (below) internships, a student tour hosts musical, dramatic guide program that includes and other performances, in-depth exploration of the most of them open to the collections, and social events public. The auditorium’s sponsored by the museum’s interior features a mosaic Student Advisory Board and with depictions of scenes other organizations. from Homer’s “Iliad” and Frist Campus Center. Frist “Odyssey” that dominates is a central gathering place the back wall of the stage. for students, faculty, staff Lake Carnegie. The man- and visitors. It houses made lake was given in many academic and student 1906 to the University organizations, and is a popular by industrialist and dining and social spot. It is philanthropist Andrew open 20 hours a day. Carnegie. Its 2,000-yard Lewis Library. This 87,000- straightway rowing course square-foot building of curved is one of the finest in the stainless steel, sloping glass country and is often used and stucco was designed by by rowers training for the architect Frank Gehry. The Olympics. library, completed in 2008,

To Connect | 57 A Group for Every Interest Since Princeton’s earliest days, student organizations have provided undergraduates with opportunities to put their ideas into action, to pursue their many interests and to explore new ones. Student organizations are created and run by students with support from the University. They run the gamut from music and dance to politics and debate, from service and social activities to ethnicity and religion. If you don’t find a group that expresses your particular interest, consider starting a new one.

Here are just a few of the groups you may consider joining: Cube Club: A club dedicated to solving combination puzzles like the Rubik’s Cube. Its speed- solving tournaments bring more than 100 competitors of all ages to campus. Greening Princeton: A student collaboration with University offices to improve environmental practices and promote sustainability on campus. High Steppers: A step-dance group. Students use their entire body as an instrument to produce complex rhythms through stomping, clapping and shouting. The students have performed on “The Today Show.” Princeton Chinese Theatre: its musical talent, sense of famous all-male kickline. Institute for Chocolate Promotes Chinese culture humor and unusual choice Members of Triangle have Studies: A bean-to-bar by performing stage plays of instruments, such as a included “It’s a Wonderful chocolate factory where in Chinese, usually with plastic horn. Life” actor Jimmy Stewart, students create their own English subtitles. Class of 1932, and Ellie Triangle Club: The oldest sweets and analyze the Kemper, Class of 2002, Princeton University Band: touring collegiate musical science behind chocolate- who played Erin Hannon A “scramble band” formed comedy troupe. It features making. on “The Office.” in 1919 that is known for colorful costumes and a

Student Organizations • Princeton has about 300 which is also the nation’s founded in 1769. The two operates student-run student organizations. A oldest college political organizations merged in businesses that provide current list is available at and debating society. The 1928. services to the campus www.princeton.edu/odus. Cliosophic Society was • In addition to student community and jobs for • The oldest student founded in 1765 and the groups, the Student students. Services range organization is the American American Whig Society was Agencies program, from dorm furnishings and Whig-Cliosophic Society, established in 1911, graphic design to video production.

58 | To Connect The Bonfire

What: The bonfire, a campus When: The most recent Students say: “Tonight is “The bonfire is really nice custom dating to the late bonfire was kindled on not just about the football to come and see the whole 1800s, is now observed Nov. 24, 2013. team. It’s about this whole community, and for the during a football season campus coming together to University to join as one Who: Hundreds of students, when Princeton sweeps both celebrate something special.” group and really share alumni, faculty and staff Harvard and Yale. — Phillip Bhaya, something together.” (with supervision from the Class of 2014 and football — Lavondre Nelson, Where: Cannon Green Princeton Fire Department). co-captain for the 2013 Class of 2016 season

What: A Princeton tradition. Listeners can pause for the Arch Sings Students gather in one of the last few notes of a Rolling Gothic archways on campus Stones classic, or sit yourself to sing ancient, classic and down, with a blanket and hot contemporary tunes. chocolate, for a full two hours of rich tunes from more than Who: Student a cappella 10 exciting groups.” —Brian groups, who sing without Lax, Class of 2015 and singer musical accompaniment, with Roaring 20 typically perform the informal concerts for friends and “Arch sings really bring music passersby. and the broader campus community together. We get Where: Blair Arch is the most to share what we’ve been iconic location. working on with the other When: Barring bad weather, groups, with friends, and arch sings are often held every with other students several few weeks. times a month, and this tradition has been bringing Students say: “Arch sings are Princetonians together for the cornerstone of Princeton decades.” — Abigail Kelly, a cappella. Stop by for just Class of 2015 and singer with half an hour, and you’ll hear the Katzenjammers everything from traditional Irish ballads to George Gershwin or Lady Gaga. To Connect | 59 Health Services Campus Hubs University Health Services (UHS) is the primary health care provider for students. The accredited facility Students and the broader differences among us, and international orientations; offers a comprehensive University community build the skills needed to and cultural and social range of medical and counseling services, as convene at various centers create and lead a more just adjustment programs. It well as health education, on campus. world. The center offers also is a clearinghouse for outreach and wellness a variety of programs information relevant to the Campus Club. A social programs. For more that are focused on the international Princeton facility for undergraduate information on UHS and the interconnectedness of community. Student Health Plan, visit and graduate students. The social, political and cultural www.princeton.edu/uhs. club offers flexible spaces Frist Campus Center. The issues within diverse for informal gatherings central gathering place communities. Programs and studying, as well as for everyone on campus, range from monthly events spaces that can be reserved as well as alumni, visitors to speakers to special for events such as dinners, and the surrounding programming, advising, celebrations and artistic dances, forums, meetings community. Frist hosts training and consultation endeavors. and lectures. a variety of programs for the entire campus. Davis International Center. The center supports more Carl A. Fields Center and services that enrich for Equality and Cultural The primary resource campus life, and also than 10 student groups, including one for freshmen. Understanding. The Fields for 2,500 international includes dining options, Center strives to empower students and scholars mail and package services, With a lounge and members of the University who represent more than classrooms, study rooms, a library, it offers a safe and community as they seek 100 countries. It provides theater, and more. welcoming space to speak a range of services and with staff about personal to learn about themselves, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, programs, including visa matters, study and make understand the breadth Transgender Center. The and immigration advising; friends. of cultural and social LGBT Center provides Pace Center for Civic Engagement. The Pace Center challenges students to learn more about themselves and the world around them through civic engagement and community service programs on and off campus. See page 70 for more information.

Women’s Center. A center that supports student- initiated programs, gender- related activism and leadership development. Educational, social and cultural programs create opportunities for all members of the University community to explore gender issues outside of the classroom.

60 | To Connect A Day in the Life of Frist Frist Campus Center is open 20 hours a day (24 hours a day during midterm and final weeks), seven days a week. On any given day at Frist, you could: • Grab a coffee at • Attend a lecture. Witherspoon’s. • Watch a movie in the • Check your mailbox and TV lounge. pick up a care package • Play pool with friends from home. in the billiard room. • Stop by a student • Enjoy a slice of late-night organization information pizza at the Frist Food table. Gallery. • Get concert tickets at • Sample sustainable and the University Ticketing local food at Café Vivian. office.

To Connect | 61 Play Like a Tiger

Whatever your athletic of subjects, including Roberts Stadium has The Shea Rowing Center skills or interests, there aquatics, dance, group facilities for soccer, is home to the crew is a team at Princeton to fitness, martial arts and including: Myslik Field, program, which uses motivate you and push spinning. You also can get the grass game field; the University’s Lake you to excel. Princeton’s involved in sport clubs and Plummer Field, an all- Carnegie for training and NCAA Division I teams intramural sports. weather practice field competition. have succeeded in the with an artificial surface; The newly refurbished Ivy League for decades. Our Athletic Facilities and seating for 3,000 Lenz Tennis Center features You also can participate spectators. Dillon Gymnasium is the hub 23 outdoor courts. in informal recreational for recreational sports. It Sherrerd Field at Class of Outdoor athletic facilities activities for exercise and also houses a pool and the 1952 Stadium is a lighted, also include an 18-hole golf fun. Our superior athletic Stephens Fitness Center. artificial-surface facility for course and more than 50 facilities are a resource for lacrosse. varsity and recreational Jadwin Gymnasium has acres of sports fields. athletes. 250,000 square feet Bedford Field is the new of indoor space for artificial turf field for field Varsity Sports intercollegiate sports, in hockey. addition to a practice area Princeton has 38 varsity for outdoor field sports. It teams. The teams routinely features Pete Carril Court, win the Ivy League’s the varsity basketball floor. unofficial all-sports points championship Baker Rink is a historic and place among the facility for ice hockey and national Division I leaders skating. in the Director’s Club, DeNunzio Pool is an which measures overall Olympic-size pool for athletic success in NCAA competitive swimming, championship competition. diving and water polo. Since the formation of the Ivy League more than Powers Field at Princeton 50 years ago, Princeton Stadium is home to Tiger teams have by far the football. highest number of league championships. For more information, visit www. goprincetontigers.com.

Campus Recreation You have many options for fitness, recreation and athletics at Princeton. All students have access to Dillon Gymnasium and the Stephens Fitness Center, as well as outdoor facilities for recreational use. You can take classes in a range

62 | To Connect Men’s Women’s Club Intramural Spotlight on: Varsity Varsity archery
Student Athletes badminton

ballroom dancing
baseball

Cameron basketball



Porter broomball
Cane Spree
Class year: 2015 climbing
Sport: Varsity men’s cricket
soccer croquet
Academic focus: cross country

Computer science cycling
Other activities: diving

Princeton Entre- dodgeball
preneurship Club; equestrian
Fashion Speaks; Best Buddies Princeton; Ivy Club. fencing


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knowing when to buckle down and put in the work. !gure skating
Whether it is staying up late coding an algorithm or putting in the extra hours on the field, you have to "ag football
recognize what needs to get done and just do it. Best "oor hockey
of all, you will have your friends next to you pushing football
you along. free throw
How being an athlete affects his Princeton golf


experience: From the moment I stepped on campus, handball
wide-eyed and intimidated at the prospect of ice hockey attending arguably the finest institution in higher



education, I have had not only my teammates here to indoor soccer
guide me, but my coaches, advisers and alumni there innertube
water polo willing to lend a hand. It is difficult to imagine my jiujitsu
time here without these friends and mentors. kendo
Tiana kickball
lacrosse


Woolridge powerlifting
Class year: 2015 ri"e
Sport: Varsity women’s *rowing

volleyball rugby
Academic focus: running
Woodrow Wilson sailing
School; hopes to attend ski/snowboard
medical school soccer



Other activities: softball

Student-Athlete Service Council; Student Volunteers sprint football
Council; Student Health Advisory Board; Minority squash



Association of Pre-Health Students; Cannon Club swimming


Favorite Princeton sports moment: My favorite table tennis

moment was watching the men’s basketball team beat Harvard in Jadwin Gymnasium during my tae kwon do
freshman year, and storming the court with what felt tennis


like half of the student body. track and !eld

How being an athlete affects her Princeton Ultimate Frisbee

experience: I felt so comfortable on campus as a volleyball



freshman because I could turn to my teammates wallyball
whenever I was confused or lost or needed advice. water polo

Even though I met more friends on campus through branching out into other activities, I know I can wrestling
always count on my teammates when I need them. *Rowing = men’s heavyweight and lightweight; To Connect | 63 women’s lightweight and open 64 | To Lead To Lead Set Forth and Make a Difference

Princeton students want to leave an indelible mark, do important work and help solve the most vexing issues of our time. They want to develop sustainable energy sources; eliminate disease and poverty; erase prejudice; foster religious and cultural tolerance; ensure equal access to education; rebuild and strengthen communities.

What most students need to achieve their dreams is knowledge, opportunity and leadership. Princeton’s objective is threefold. First, we do our best to find the next generation of leaders. We comb the nation and the world for those we believe have the intellectual stamina to meet the challenges of leadership. Second, we equip these individuals with the requisite knowledge and skills in classrooms led by those who themselves are world leaders in their fields. And third, we give our students the chance to practice what they’ve learned by offering ample leadership opportunities on campus and by exposing them to research opportunities and internships in companies, laboratories and nonprofits in local communities and across the continents.

For all these reasons, Princeton’s graduates leave here ready and expecting to make a difference.

To Lead | 65 Princeton in the Nation’s Service

Since Woodrow Wilson lead you to a world of and experience the power on farms. The program issued a call to public unforgettable experiences. of community interaction. emphasizes team-building service at Princeton’s You will engage with activities in the open 1896 sesquicentennial Orient Yourself new people and cultures air and groups go to celebration, preparing Many students begin as you tackle projects such locations as the students for lives of civic their Princeton journey developed by community Catskills in New York, engagement has been learning leadership and nonprofit organizations the Appalachian Trail in one of the University’s civic engagement skills — renovating homes, Connecticut, Shenandoah core values. Our informal at Orientation programs. restoring city gardens, National Park in Virginia motto is “Princeton in the Students in small groups clearing trails, painting or the Delaware River in Nation’s Service and in the — about 10 freshmen led murals, working with New York and New Jersey. Service of All Nations.” by sophomores, juniors or youth and more. Service International Orientation. As a student, you may seniors — spend a week activities are paired with This three-day exercise a broad range of doing outdoor or service evening fun and reflection. program welcomes new options for volunteerism by activities. Fees for both You will also interact with international students pursuing service activities programs are covered for the faculty and staff over to Princeton before the offered through courses, students on financial aid. a family-style dinner and Community Action or campus centers, student book discussion. Outdoor Action programs organizations, residential Community Action. As part Outdoor Action. Incoming occur. Students participate colleges, eating clubs of this signature program students from around the in social events, attend and student-initiated with the Pace Center world come together to information sessions and efforts. Your interests for Civic Engagement, pursue activities such as take care of practical will open into meaningful you will learn what it camping, hiking, rock matters, such as shopping collaboration with others means to be a part of the climbing and working for dorm room items. on shared goals and University community

66 | To Lead From Student Group to National Nonprofit

One doesn’t often think of a student organization as an incubator for a national nonprofit. In the case of Students for Education Reform (SFER), however, that’s exactly what it was. Early in their time at Princeton, Catharine Bellinger, Class of 2015, and Alexis Morin, Class of 2015, discovered a mutual interest in closing the education gap in public schools and developing a new generation of school-reform leaders. The pair founded SFER at Princeton with the hopes of extending their reach to about 10 other college campuses. The mission of SFER is to example, where lawmakers Columbia administrator when mobilize undergraduates were considering statewide Morin first interned for him. By the end of the first year, to advocate for important reform legislation, SFER they had registered their In 2012, SFER was ranked education policy reform chapters were founded student organization as a among 15 finalists in the in K-12 schools. Its three and members lobbied for nonprofit and had recruited White House’s Campus major objectives are building important provisions. chapters on 20 campuses. Champions of Change, awareness of education The group even caught The launching and growth a contest that recognizes inequities in public schools, the eye of U.S. Secretary of SFER received support innovative service programs training students for job of Education Arne Duncan from other Princeton alumni, created by undergraduates. opportunities in education (above) when he spoke including Teach for America Forbes magazine named reform and promoting state on campus. Today, with founder Wendy Kopp, who Morin and Bellinger to its legislation to improve the support from philanthropists first laid out a blueprint for “30 Under 30” list in the quality of public education. and policymakers, the TFA in her senior thesis; and same year, a catalogue of The organization deliberately organization has expanded Jason Kamras, Class of 1995, entrepreneurs under the age targets membership in states to more than 140 college who was a TFA alumnus, of 30 who the magazine says where education reform is campuses in 33 states. a 2005 national Teacher of are impatient to change the on the legislative agenda. In the Year and a District of world. Colorado and Minnesota, for

To Lead | 67 Your Voice Matters

Hands-on leadership national conferences is a center for student important University- opportunities abound at that bring to campus leadership and plays a wide committees that Princeton, where students innovators in fields such as substantial role in the recommend and help motivate each other to sports and graphic design. campus community. implement new University do great things, from Students representing initiatives. The Undergraduate establishing a farmers’ various groups and Student Government market to organizing interests also serve on

Spotlight on: Fellowship Winners

Princeton students have a history of receiving prestigious fellowships that allow them to build on their academic studies, nurture personal talents, travel Develop college- Help health Develop theoretical Help limit the internationally or preparedness care initiatives frameworks transmission of engage in community programs to in developing for studying tropical diseases service work. During help high school countries succeed contemporary through medical students reach over the long culture. — Dixon the past year, students research. — Simone their potential. — term. —Timothy Li, Marshall Sasse, Gates have been the Adam Mastroianni, McGinnis, Rhodes Scholar Cambridge Scholar recipients of Rhodes, Rhodes Scholar Scholar Marshall, Churchill and Gates Cambridge scholarships to pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom. The students said the scholarships would allow them to ... Improve second- Advance treatments Study cultural Conduct research language teaching for complex heritage resources in developing through research on disorders such as and museum computational the psychology of autism. —Adriana curatorship. — methods to identify languages. — David Cherskov, Gates Izzy Kasdin, Gates cancer drivers. Abugaber, Gates Cambridge Scholar Cambridge Scholar — Katherine Cambridge Scholar Pogrebniak, Churchill Scholar and class valedictorian

68 | To Lead Spotlight on: Engineers Without Borders

The Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders was established by two undergraduates in 2004. With students majoring in everything from chemical and biological engineering to economics to anthropology, the group’s 90 members support development projects across the world. The students are working on a potable water system in Peru, a water supply and sanitation project in Sierra Leone, and a rainwater catchment and purification system in Kenya. Teams traveled to each of the countries during the summer to plan and begin implementing the first phases of the projects. “Facing the problems that inevitably arise with completing a developmental project and being abroad, developed our independence and greatly honed our problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills and adaptability,” says Peru project co-leader Amanda Li, Class of 2016. “The project has inspired some of our team members to work in international development and humanitarian engineering, for organizations like the Peace Corps and Doctors Without Borders.”

To Lead | 69 Pace Center for Civic Engagement The Pace Center helps make civic engagement an integral part of your Princeton experience. Its student motto is “Don’t just do more. Be more.”

Learning outside the Impactful Programs. “Outside of classes, the classroom and working It’s about influencing Pace Center enriches my with others — community both students and education at Princeton. leaders, youth, your peers the community in I’m constantly learning — can put you on a path to a meaningful and what service means learn more about yourself. sustainable way. From You will be exposed to education and social from my tutoring and new perspectives and entrepreneurship to the my interactions with ideas and be challenged environment and the arts, the children. On top of to stretch your own view, you can make an impact. that, it’s amazing to see while the community fellow students being you serve receives much- Community Focus. needed support. With Community needs are at civically engaged as well, the Pace Center you can the forefront of the Pace continuously reminding discover what moves you. Center’s work. Whether me of how deeply responding to a natural The Pace Center’s embedded service is in disaster, starting a new programs are centered on Princeton’s culture.” initiative, or joining one four core values: Tumise Asebiomo, Class of 2016 of many ongoing service Engaged Discovery. Learn projects, you can be a through doing. You can part of meeting a real become immersed in community need. community, service and Student Leadership. social change. Start with Empower yourself and Community Action during others to lead the way. As Orientation, or explore a freshman, senior and a critical societal issue everything in between, through a fall or spring you can mentor, guide break trip or summer and take charge as part of internship. an advocacy group, event team or fellowship.

70 | To Lead ROTC Three Reserve Of!cer Training Corps (ROTC) programs are open to men and women at Princeton. Army, Air Force, and Navy ROTC participants engage in ROTC courses and activities that lead to being commissioned as an of!cer upon graduation. Participants may be eligible for scholarships described in the Undergraduate Financial Aid information brochure or website and the Application Instructions booklet.

Leaders in Their Field With a rich history of illustrious graduates that dates as far back as the fourth president of the United States (James Madison, Class of 1771), it’s impossible to list all of the Princeton alumni who have left their mark on politics, science, business, education, the arts and much more. Here are just a few recent alumni from the countless examples of in"uential Princetonians: Jeff Bezos, Class of 1986, founder and CEO of Amazon.com Denny Chin, Class of 1975, federal judge for U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit Jason Garrett, Class of 1989, head coach of the Dallas Cowboys Eric Lander, Class of 1978, leader of the Human Genome Project Michelle Obama, Class of 1985, First Lady of the United States Jodi Picoult, Class of 1987, best- selling author Jared Polis, Class of 1996, U.S. Congressman and philanthropist Anthony Romero, Class of 1987, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Meg Whitman, Class of 1977, president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard; former president and CEO of eBay

To Lead | 71 Princeton Summer Office of International Programs If you are interested The International Internships in pursuing a summer Internship Program internship abroad, the supports about 200 Office of International interns with funds that Programs could be a cover lodging and living Princeton undergraduates frequently valuable resource. Summer expenses, as well as partial use their summers to expand their skills. job placements in a wide or full airfare. Placements variety of fields are offered are available around the Three of the larger internship programs through the International world in the sciences, are the International Internship Program, Internship Program and nonprofits, finance and Princeton Environmental Institute through partnerships other areas. You also may with various University receive funding for an Summer Internship Program, and programs and departments. internship that you discover Princeton Internships in Civic Service. The internships require a on your own, as long as it time commitment of at least provides a serious academic eight weeks. or professional learning experience.

Improving education access in India I interned at the Pratham Education Foundation in Mumbai, India, through Princeton’s International Internship Program. I spent the summer evaluating Pratham’s vocational skills training centers all over the country. I interviewed students, teachers, center heads and employers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the issues each individual center faced. I also did an analysis to see how each center could maximize its capacity. For example, in one of the centers, I found that all the students in one classroom had enrolled after being referred by friends or family. In a district where enrolling students was difficult, I helped set up a voucher system whereby each student who refers a friend to enroll could receive a monetary voucher. Though I’ve traveled abroad for family vacations, I never before lived and fully immersed myself in a different country. Thus, I really enjoyed my interactions with my coworkers and random encounters with people in the country. I even got to visit the breathtaking Taj Mahal. — Janie (Junginn) Lee, Class of 2015

72 | To Lead Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) PICS (Princeton Internships in Civic Service) Summer Internship Program Established by the internships encompass a The PEI internships Students participate Princeton University wide range of endeavors in focus on global in faculty-led research Class of 1969 in the belief national and international environmental issues. projects and work that community service is organizations. Students Students cover many for nongovernmental essential to the welfare of work in group advocacy, topics, from environmental organizations, society, PICS has become legal services, public policy, sustainability and government, industry a broader organization the environment, health and ecological health, to and academic enterprises supported by various social services, community biodiversity, conservation around the globe. Princeton alumni and development, education, and environmental justice. clubs. PICS provides the and the arts. Since its start opportunity for students in 1996, PICS has placed to explore potential more than 800 interns careers in public service with 172 organizations. and the nonprofit sector PICS partners with the during eight-to-10-week Pace Center for Civic paid summer internships, Engagement to expand the where Princeton alumni internship opportunities serve as partners. The available for students.

Tracking wildlife in Kenya During my summer at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, I worked to measure the population trends of important wildlife species of the Mpala area. The data collected on several mammal and bird species, many Researching the mystery of the brain of which are threatened or endangered, was then compared with previous years’ data. In the future, When I was in middle school I suffered a traumatic blow my data will be compared with data from a newer to my pancreas during a football game and was treated method of measuring populations in order to test the at Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) in effectiveness of the newer method. Washington, D.C. When I learned that PICS supported an internship at CNMC, I immediately knew I wanted I would systematically travel in specific paths to work there for the summer. I had the privilege of around Mpala and use rangefinders, compasses shadowing Dr. Robert Keating, chief of neurosurgery, and GPS devices to keep a record of sightings. in the clinic and operating room. I worked on a project From my internship, I came away with a greater investigating the pathogenesis of Chiari malformation, a understanding of the challenges involved in fieldwork, condition of the cerebellum. I was able to see the affected as well as of the ecosystem and conservation patients firsthand and observe a number of treatment efforts surrounding Mpala. The fulfilling nature of procedures. My personal relationship with the patients participating in an independent project encouraged served as intense motivation to continue the research, me to continue pursuing research science. As a and each increment of progress was substantially more chemical and biological engineering major interested satisfying, for I understood that patients and patient in conservation, I found this opportunity to begin families like the ones I met could someday benefit from contributing to environmental efforts immeasurably the results. rewarding. Dr. Keating told me, “The day I stop learning is the — Manali Gokhale, Class of 2016 day I should probably retire,” and his fascination with neuroscience was infectious. I became hooked by the mystery of the brain and inspired by the doctors’ continual commitment to learning. I am a psychology major, and my internship inspired me to also pursue a certificate in neuroscience. I am truly grateful to PICS for the eye-opening experience and have tried to give back by joining the PICS Student Advisory Council. — Justin Murphy, Class of 2015 To Lead | 73 74 | To Make Your Mark To Make Your Mark Take the Next Step

Where you decide to continue your education will determine in many ways how you think and what you learn, how you present yourself to the world and what you do to change it.

If you attend Princeton, you will experience an education that will transform you forever. You will have opportunities inside the classroom and beyond that will be revelatory. You also will join a community that will reward you for life with extensive alumni connections around the world. It is a network that includes Nobel laureates, Rhodes scholars, MacArthur geniuses, Supreme Court justices, foundation heads, artists, diplomats, pioneers in science and medicine, public servants, and corporate citizens.

Princeton is exceptionally generous in providing opportunities to the students it believes will benefit from the experience this University offers, regardless of need. If you are excited about having the chance to join this unique community, take the next step. Fulfilling your dreams begins here.

To Make Your Mark | 75 Recommended Applying to Princeton Courses Recommended as a strong foundation for study at Princeton: • Four years of English (including Princeton enrolls a offered to students who, admission, you must continued practice in writing) freshman class of about in our judgment, will demonstrate exceptionally • Four years of mathematics 1,300 students each year. best take advantage of the high academic • Four years of one foreign language At least two years of laboratory The admission staff will educational opportunities performance and aptitude. • science consider your application at Princeton and The most important • At least two years of history individually, carefully contribute in many ways to document in your (including that of a country or an evaluating your intellectual the Princeton community. application folder will be area outside the United States) as well as personal your high school academic • Some study of the visual arts, qualities. We seek to Our goal is to admit a transcript. We also will music or theater understand how you have freshman class defined not pay close attention to If you intend to pursue a B.S.E. excelled within the context only by its outstanding your personal strengths, degree or physical science major: of your respective schools academic ability but nonacademic talents and • Mathematics courses should and communities, and how also by a variety of your commitments to your include calculus • Sciences should include a year of well you have made use backgrounds, particular activities. math-based physics or higher-level of the resources at your interests, accomplishments physics and a year of chemistry disposal. Admission is and aspirations. To gain

Other Items to Note

Although we do recommend completion of some courses acceptable. We recommend that you take the SAT to prepare you for a Princeton education, we have no Subject Tests the same year in which you completed the fixed unit or course prerequisites. We recognize that not course in the tested subject. The greatest weight will be all high schools offer the same opportunities. We will given to your strongest scores. You also may elect to use give you full consideration, even if you have been unable Score Choice to send your best scores. to pursue studies to the extent recommended, as long as your record otherwise shows clear promise. We also Special Talents encourage you to consult with your school advisers and to take the most rigorous courses possible in secondary Evaluation of special talents can be important to the school, including honors, higher level and Advanced admission decision. You are encouraged to submit Placement courses where available. materials that show your level of proficiency. This is especially true if you are deeply involved in architecture, creative writing, dance, music, theater or the visual arts. English Proficiency In such cases, you may submit digital representations of If English is not your native language and you are your work in addition to the Common Application and attending a school where English is not the language the Universal College Application. Also, if you have done of instruction, you must take the Test of English as a math or scientific research, you might want to submit Foreign Language (TOEFL) in addition to the SAT or brief abstracts. You should submit these no later than ACT, and SAT Subject Tests. The TOEFL examination Nov. 1 for early action or Jan. 1 for regular decision. is administered by the Educational Testing Service at testing centers throughout the world. Students With Disabilities The Office of Disability Services offers a range of Examination Requirements services to ensure that students with disabilities have You must submit the results of the College Board access to Princeton’s academic and extracurricular SAT or the ACT (with Writing, where offered). In activities. Students are invited to visit the office’s website addition, you must submit the results of two different at www.princeton.edu/ods for more information, or to SAT Subject Tests. If you are unable to follow the call 609-258-8840. recommended testing pattern, you should consult with Students with disabilities who have questions concerning the Office of Admission as soon as possible. the admission process should contact the Office of Although most students take the tests during junior Admission. and senior year, test results from earlier years are also

76 | To Make Your Mark Applications

You may apply to Princeton by submitting either the Regular Decision Application Timeline Common Application (on the Web at www.commonapp. Regular decision applicants must complete all SAT org) or the Universal College Application (on the Web testing by the January test date. All ACT testing must at https://uca.applywithus.com/apply/to/princeton). be completed by the December test date. If you reside Princeton treats both applications equally. outside the United States or Canada, we encourage If you are applying via the Common Application, please you to complete all testing by the December test date, note that you also must complete the required writing if possible. All application decisions will be mailed and supplement to the Common Application. If you are made available securely online at the end of March or using the Universal College Application, you also must early April. If you are admitted and also have applied complete the Princeton Supplement. You will find for financial aid, you will be notified of any financial aid detailed application instructions on our website and in award at the time you are offered admission. our application directions. The Office of Admission reserves the right to review A nonrefundable $65 application fee is required to cover and cancel its offer of admission at any time up to part of the cost of processing each application. If you actual matriculation at Princeton in September if your are applying online, you may pay the fee with a credit academic or personal qualifications fall below our earlier card. Applications submitted by mail should include a expectations. check or money order, payable to Princeton University. If payment of this fee would cause you extreme financial Alumni Interviews for Applicants hardship, your counselor may submit a written waiver Once you submit an application, you may be contacted request that includes a brief explanation of the reason for from October through February for an optional the waiver, or you may submit the waiver forms available interview with a Princeton Alumni Schools Committee from the College Board and the National Association for member, depending on your location and the availability College Admission Counseling. of a committee member in your area. The Office of Admission will inform you by email when an interviewer Single-Choice Early Action has been assigned. You may choose to apply to Princeton University under the single-choice early action program if you Postponing Enrollment have thoroughly researched your college options and If you are admitted, you may matriculate only in have decided that Princeton is your first choice. Under September, but you may defer enrollment for a year to the nonbinding program, you must complete your travel, work, perform military service or to participate in application by Nov. 1. You may not apply to an early special programs. We encourage you to take advantage program at any other private college or university, but of such opportunities. However, you may not defer to you may apply early to any public institution, as long enroll as a full-time student at another degree-granting as the decision is nonbinding. You also may apply to institution. Additionally, if you are admitted to the any international institution, as long as the decision is Bridge Year Program (described on page 38), you will nonbinding, or to any college with a nonbinding rolling defer enrollment for one year to conduct a year of service admission process. The Office of Admission will provide abroad. an admission decision by mid-December, including a decision on financial aid if you have completed the You may request a deferral only after you are admitted Princeton Financial Aid Application. and choose to enroll at Princeton. You may do so by writing a letter by May 10 to the dean of admission Three outcomes for applying early to Princeton are explaining what you would like to do during the possible. The Office of Admission will either (a) offer coming year and asking that the University defer your you admission, (b) deny admission, or (c) defer a final enrollment. If you have been awarded financial aid and decision on your application and review it again in the you defer admission, you must reapply for assistance for regular decision process. the year you plan to enroll. If you are admitted, you will have until May 1 to respond and may choose to apply for regular decision at other Transfer Admission institutions, enabling you to compare your admission and financial aid offers with those of other colleges Princeton does not offer transfer admission at this time. and universities. Early action candidates are strongly If you have enrolled as a full-time degree candidate encouraged to complete testing before the Nov. 1 at another college or university, you are considered a deadline. If you take any standardized tests in November, transfer applicant and are ineligible for undergraduate you should have your scores sent directly to Princeton. admission.

To learn more about how to apply to Princeton, visit www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission

To Make Your Mark | 77 Admission Timeline

Single-Choice Early Action

Aug. 1 Online Common Nov. 9 Deadline for filing Application and required the PFAA. writing supplement November Last month to available; Universal take the ACT or SAT tests. College Application and Princeton Supplement Mid-December Admission available. and financial aid decisions mailed and made available Oct. 1 Princeton online. Financial Aid Application (PFAA) available online. Nov. 1 Application deadline. Recommended deadline for reporting standardized tests to Princeton.

78 | To Make Your Mark Regular Admission

Aug. 1 Online Common Dec. 15 Recommended January Last month to take End of March Admission Application and required application submission. the SAT and SAT Subject and financial aid decisions writing supplement Tests. Online Application mailed and made available Jan. 1 Final deadline for available; Universal College Status Check available to online. postmarked or online- Application and Princeton confirm that required forms submitted application. April 15 FAFSA Supplement available. have been received by the (December and January deadline. Office of Admission. Oct. 1 Princeton Financial SAT/ACT scores may May 1 Postmark and Aid Application (PFAA) arrive after the deadline.) Feb. 1 Deadline for the online deadline for available online. Postmark or online deadline online PFAA. accepting Princeton’s for Teacher Reference Forms December Last month March 15 Recommended admission offer. and Secondary School to take the ACT test. date for submitting parents’ Report. Free Application May 10 Recommended International applicants are federal income tax returns for Federal Student Aid date for requesting a encouraged to complete their and W-2 statements. (FAFSA) available. one-year deferral of SAT and Subject Tests. enrollment.

To Make Your Mark | 79 Financial Aid

We encourage students parents are expected dormitory and meal plan from all background to to contribute toward charge. Princeton offers a In the 2013-14 consider applying for the cost of attendance Student Health Plan at a academic year ... admission to Princeton. varies according to their cost of $1,900 if you are not Princeton has one of the resources. Families with covered under your family’s About strongest need-based low incomes are asked medical insurance. financial aid programs to make relatively small Your family will be billed in the country, reflecting contributions, in many 60% each semester for half the of all undergraduates our core value of equality cases zero, and receive the University charges. A received financial aid. of opportunity and our largest grants. Middle- 12-month installment plan desire to attract the most and higher-income families is available, and carries talented students. All will benefit from grants a fee currently set at aid is awarded based based on their individual The average 2.25 percent. In addition solely on need. Therefore level of need. You also may aid grant covered to these basic payment Princeton does not offer meet a portion of your options, parents who wish academic or athletic merit college expenses through to finance their share of the 96% scholarships. If admitted, summer and term-time student bill over a longer of tuition for you can be confident that earnings; you will not be payment period may apply undergraduates. your full financial need, as required to take a loan for a Princeton Parent determined by Princeton’s to pay Princeton’s costs. Loan or the federal PLUS Financial Aid Office, will More information about loan. More information be met. The University’s Princeton’s extensive is available on both the financial aid program financial aid program is 75% financial aid and student provides grants and available in the booklet of all undergraduates accounts office websites. work st udy — not st udent Undergraduate Financial graduated debt free. loans — to meet your full Aid Information and Student Employment demonstrated financial Application Instructions, If you want to work during need. For that reason, it is and on the Web at www. the academic year, you possible for you to graduate princeton.edu/aid. will find a wide variety of from Princeton without job opportunities, both 25% debt. This policy applies Expenses and Billing Options on and off campus. The of undergraduates to both domestic and chose to borrow Estimated miscellaneous student employment office international applicants. during their four expenses include the maintains a Web listing years at Princeton, Awarding Aid residential college fee, of current job openings, and the staff is available to usually for additional Princeton’s need-based aid class dues and activities answer your questions. expenses such as a program assists students fee, totaling $875. The laptop computer. from a wide range of room and board rate is for Their average total economic backgrounds. the standard University indebtedness at Careful consideration will graduation was be given to your family’s $5,500. financial circumstances as “Princeton’s financial aid program is presented in Princeton’s one of the best in the country for low- free online aid application. and middle-income families. Since The amount your 2001, we have made it possible for students to graduate debt free.” Robin Moscato, director of undergraduate financial aid

80 | To Make Your Mark Financial Aid for Students Admitted to the Class of 2018 Gross Family Income Average Grant* What It Covers The Princeton $0 – 60,000 $55,500 Full tuition, room + board Financial Aid $60,000 – 80,000 $51,500 Full tuition, 71% of room + board Estimator

$80,000 – 100,000 $47,500 Full tuition, 42% of room + board Princeton’s con!dential Financial Aid Estimator $100,000 – 120,000 $44,500 Full tuition, 20% of room + board can help you determine if you would qualify $120,000 – 140,000 $40,500 97% of tuition for aid and the type of award you might $140,000 – 160,000 $35,900 86% of tuition receive. The estimator is available at www. $160,000 – 180,000 $32,500 78% of tuition princeton.edu/ $180,000 – 200,000 $27,000 65% of tuition admission/!nancialaid/ estimator. $200,000 and above $18,900 45% of tuition Note: The aid estimator most who qualify have 2 children in college is valid only for U.S. and *A grant does not have to be repaid. Sometimes grants are referred to as “scholarships” or “gift aid.” Canadian families.

Tuition = $41,820 Room and board = $13,620

Of those who applied for aid: 100% qualify 85% qualify 50% qualify

Your grant may vary from the above average based on the Financial Aid Office’s individual evaluation of your family’s resources, including assets other than the family home or retirement and savings.

Fees and Expenses, 2014-15 Tuition ...... $41,820 $44,700 Room and board ...... $13,620 The average aid package for a student admitted Estimated miscellaneous expenses (books, to the Class of 2018 is $44,700: supplies, telephone, recreation, etc.) ...... $3,525 Estimated total ...... $58,965 Note: Because the cost of goods and services continues to rise, charges for 95% grant aid 2015-16 are expected to increase modestly. ( $42,600 ) 5% campus job ( $2,100 ) Financial Aid by the Numbers, 2014-15 (Estimated) $131 million Grant dollars for all undergraduates $34 million Grant dollars for the Class of 2018 We hope you’ll take a closer look $42,600 Average grant for aid students admitted to the Class of 2018 at Princeton, no matter what your financial situation may be.

To learn more about Princeton’s !nancial aid program, visit www.princeton.edu/admission/!nancialaid

To Make Your Mark | 81 Visit Us

A visit to the Princeton through the Orange Key Travel Resources campus will likely give Guide Service. The guides Driving and rail service instructions: you a good feel for all that will show you points of www.princeton.edu/main/visiting Princeton has to offer. interest, describe the history Recorded directions: 609-258-2222 Throughout the year, you of the University and answer Campus parking information: may combine a general questions about academics www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/aroundcampus/parking information session with and campus life. a one-hour campus tour Parking information in town: If you are interested in led by experienced student www.princetonparking.org engineering, you should guides. consider a tour of the School Web and Telephone Resources of Engineering and Applied General Information General Tours and Information Sessions: Sessions Science. Tours are offered www.princeton.edu/admission/visitprinceton The one-hour general weekdays when classes are Telephone: 609-258-3060 information sessions, in session and between early Tours of the School of Engineering and Applied Science: conducted by an admission July and late August. www.princeton.edu/engineering/undergraduate/ officer at Clio Hall, are Traveling to Princeton engineering-tours available on weekdays and a limited number Princeton is accessible by Telephone: 609-258-4554 of Saturdays during the many means of transportation. fall. You and your family For plane travel, it is most are welcome, and no convenient to fly into Newark reservations are necessary. Liberty International Airport and take the train from the Campus Tours airport to campus, although Tours of campus are Philadelphia International conducted by student Airport is also within an guides throughout the year hour’s drive. 5, 230 Students from nearly undergraduate students. 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