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Decision Release Date for 2020-21 Cycle

The joint notification date for the Ivy League this year will be Tuesday, April 6 at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Our candidate response deadline will be extended to Monday, May 3. The change in date is a result of increased applications across the League and our commitment to thoughtful review of all candidates. Students and families can be assured that, as always, we will consider any requests for additional extensions that may be necessitated by financial aid determinations. The Ivy moratorium will begin on Sunday, April 4 at 7 p.m. and conclude Wednesday, April 7 at 8 a.m., the day following the notification date.

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    1. Nassau Hall, home to the Office of the President and other senior administrators, served as the nation’s capital for four months and eight days in 1783, when it played host to meetings of the Continental Congress.
    2. The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is the oldest college literary and debating club in the United States. Whig-Clio graduates include two U.S. presidents, two U.S. vice presidents and four U.S. Supreme Court justices.
    3. The use of the word “campus” (Latin for “field”), to mean the grounds of a college, originated at Princeton.
    4. The Princeton University Chapel is the third largest University chapel in the world.
    5. The Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding is named after Dr. Carl Fields, the first African American dean at an Ivy League institution.
    6. Charles “Pete” Conrad, a 1953 alumnus, NASA astronaut and the commander of the Apollo 12 mission, took a Princeton flag to the moon in November 1969.
    7. In 1947, Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and guest lecturer at Princeton, attended the first official Shabbat program sponsored by Princeton Hillel.
    8. On the front lawn of Maclean House, the original president’s house and now home of the University’s alumni office, sit a pair of sycamore trees that were planted to commemorate the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766. These are the oldest trees on campus and may live for 600 years.
    9. The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library houses more than 60,000 senior theses, including those of Sonia Sotomayor ’76, Ethan Coen '79, David Duchovny '82, Michelle Obama '85, Brooke Shields '87, Ted Cruz '92 and Ellie Kemper '02. 
    10. Twenty-six thousand alumni, family and friends attend Reunions every year.  At Princeton, every class has a reunion every year.
    11. Three members of the U.S. Supreme Court—Justices Samuel Alito '72, Sonia Sotomayor '76 and Elena Kagan '81—are graduates of Princeton.
    12. “A Beautiful Mind,” the Academy Award–winning film about the famous Princeton mathematician John Forbes Nash (a Princeton graduate alumnus), was filmed on campus.  Some fictitious characters dreamed of or attended Princeton too: Bruce Wayne in the superhero film “Batman Begins”; Carlton Banks in the TV comedy series the “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”; Sam Seaborn in the political serial drama "The West Wing"; Olivia Pope in the ABC drama “Scandal.”
    13. Princeton played in the first-ever intercollegiate football game, against Rutgers, in 1869.
    14. In 2016, the Princeton University women’s basketball team earned the Ivy League’s first ever at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. In 2015, the team went through the regular season undefeated, with a record of 30-0.
    15. ​​​Lake Carnegie, home to the Princeton University men's and women's crew teams, meets Olympics standards and is the training course for Team USA Rowing.
    16. Princeton has won more Ivy League titles than any other member of the League.
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