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  2. Princeton University - Wikipedia

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    Princeton University. /  40.34528°N 74.65611°W  / 40.34528; -74.65611. Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial ...

  3. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [19] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  4. Ivy League - Wikipedia

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    Ivy League. The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).

  5. Institute for Advanced Study - Wikipedia

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    The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to the United States.

  6. Need-blind admission - Wikipedia

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    Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding whether to accept them. This approach typically results in a higher percentage of accepted students who require financial assistance and requires the institution to have a substantial ...

  7. History of Princeton University - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Princeton University was founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1746 in order to train ministers dedicated to their views. The college was the educational and religious capital of Scottish-Irish America.

  8. Big Three (colleges) - Wikipedia

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    The Big Three, also known as HYP ( H arvard, Y ale, P rinceton), is a historical term used in the United States to refer to Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University. The phrase Big Three originated in the 1880s, when these three colleges dominated college football. [ 1] In 1906, these schools formed a sports compact that ...

  9. Admission (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film was shot at the Princeton University campus, Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY, and at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. [8] A trailer for the film was released on November 20, 2012. [9] The film was released on March 22, 2013. Admission was the first major motion picture to use RushTera for post-production collaboration.