FAQs

Approximately 75 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students, and only four percent of classes have more than 100 students.

In the fall of 2024, more than 1,620 courses were offered to Princeton students. Note that this number includes graduate courses, which are open to qualified undergraduates with departmental permission.  Please visit our complete course catalog.

We do not have a set number we plan to match with and much depends on the applicant pool itself. In the past, we have matched with a small number of students through College Match with the majority of QuestBridge admits coming in Regular Decision.

Students must be in an English-medium school for at least three of the four years of high school to be exempt from an English Proficiency Test.

Our students go on to do extraordinarily well when pursuing graduate  or professional schools or employment after graduation. 

For the Class of 2023, a total of 88.8 percent secured their post-graduation outcome within six months of graduation, with 61.4 percent accepting employment and 25.5 percent pursuing further education. A total of 15.5 percent reported working full-time at a nonprofit organization, and 18.9 percent reported that their post-graduation outcomes were informed by service or civic engagement experiences they had at Princeton. 

Nearly 95 percent of undergraduate students engage with the Center for Career Development during their time at Princeton.  

You can check the status of your FAFSA online. You should allow one week for processing an online signature, and three weeks for processing a paper signature page.

No. The Common Application is no longer a requirement for QuestBridge finalists. As such, if you choose to complete and submit one, we will not review it. Please note that QuestBridge finalists are required to submit the Princeton QuestBridge Supplement, which includes additional essays and short answer questions, along with a Graded Written Paper. 

Yes. All students, regardless of citizenship status, may apply to Princeton through the College Match.

We encourage you to reach out to your teachers or school counselors to obtain a graded written paper from your last three years of secondary school. If you are unable to provide a graded written paper, we will still review your application, but we will have less information with which to review your file.

We encourage you to reach out to your teachers or school counselors to obtain a graded written paper from your last three years of secondary school. If the grade or comments are on a separate piece of paper, please attach this to your submission.  If there is no grade written on the paper, please speak to your teacher to ask them to attach, or attest to, the original grade.