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Updated: At exactly 7 PM, the University issued a press release that confirms Princeton was the only Ivy League school, aside from Penn (their acceptance rate increased by 0.1%), that saw a higher acceptance rate this year. Janet Rapelye admitted 9.79% of applicants, compared to 9.25% last year. An incredible 1,331 students were wait listed, though only half of them are expected to remain on it. It will be interesting to see how Princeton’s administration will spin today’s news.

It is 7 PM EST, and Princeton is the only Ivy League school that has not yet released its admissions data for the Class of 2013. Although Princeton is notoriously opaque and slow about these sort of things, it could be telling that no one has heard anything.

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Trinity College’s men’s squash team defeated Princeton men’s squash yesterday in a close 5-4 squash game that gave the No. 1 ranked squash team its 11th perfect season of squash in a row, with a 16-0 record of squash wins. Trinity men’s squash team’s last loss was in a game of squash against Harvard in the College Squash Association National Team Championship in February 1998.

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Trinity’s men’s squash team has now had 199 victories in a row. No. 2-ranked Princeton ended the season with a 11-1 record. As No. 1 and No. 2, the two teams are favored to face off again next Saturday at Jadwin Squash Courts for this year’s National Team Championship game.

But does anyone remember that gem from the New York Times published about a year ago? We do. It’s another article about how “anxious parents are looking for some edge, any edge, to help their child gain entry through the back door of the nation’s most selective universities,” but it’s an article about squash. Because that’s how you get into Princeton. Squash.

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Bad News Bears...

Has the population of “green haired” high school students plateaued? Shirley Tilghman’s now-infamous desire to attract students with a penchant for hairdye may be backfiring!

Princeton has suffered a second major blow to its ego in less than six months! In August, the university dropped down an entire spot to number two in the annual US News & World Report rankings, and two weeks ago, Janet Rapelye’s admissions office announced that this year’s applicant pool for the class of 2013 grew just two percent.

This figure, so far, represents the smallest growth in applications among its peer schools (Columbia and Penn have yet to release their data). As the table above shows, Brown saw a whopping 21 percent increase in applicants this year, and even Cornell reported a higher increase with three percent.

After the jump, the second table shows that Princeton’s application numbers haven’t grown as quickly over the past three years, compared to Harvard’s and Yale’s:

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