Princeton University will continue using a “legacy preference” for applicants when making decisions on undergraduate admissions. The children of alumni who have applied to Princeton have received a ...

Princeton University will continue to give a slight advantage to the children of alumni — known as “legacy” applicants — in its admissions policy while also aiming to admit a more economically diverse ...

“I immediately started crying because I never thought that I could achieve this,” Morgan Gagnon ’27 wrote to The Daily Princetonian about her admission to Princeton on Mar. 30. “It was a crazy moment ...

Last year, a close friend from my hometown told me that a Princeton admissions officer had made an appearance at our high school’s annual college and career fair. It was surprising, she said — most of ...

As Princeton students, we are lucky that our education affords us endless opportunities. According to a recent study by Harvard economist Raj Chetty, the chance of reaching the top 1 percent of the ...

One of my earliest memories of Princeton is a talk about legacy admissions during orientation. My RCA asked my zee group about our thoughts on legacies, and several people expressed what seemed to be ...

Some of the nation's most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses prioritize economic diversity in the wake of a ban on affirmative action.