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Princeton’s 10 Best Perks
Saturday, 05 April 2014
by Dana Bernstein
Congratulations, Class of 2018, on your admittance to Princeton! You cured cancer/scaled Mount Everest/[enter impressive accomplishment here]. Many of you have already wisely chosen to matriculate, but for those of you still on the fence, here is a list of some great Princeton perks – beyond the outstanding academics and beautiful campus (and I won’t
The UPC PreFrosh Class Guide: April 22-23
Monday, 22 April 2013
by University Press Club
Among the hundreds of things that prospective Princeton students can do when they visit campus, sitting in on real classes–with real professors and real, live Princeton students!–is up there with finding free food and oversigning yourself on club email lists. But what if the class listed turns out to be a snooze-fest? (You missed ice-cream for this!) What
- Published in Academics
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belt and suspenders, classes, computer science, Courses, Economics, etiquette, Guides, hand-raisers, prefrosh
INFOGRAPHIC: Interactive Admissions Statistics for the Princeton Class of 2017
Friday, 29 March 2013
by Jean Wang
With a record low admissions rate of 7.29% this year, Princeton welcomes another generation of baby tigers to Nassau Hall. Check out the preliminary stats of the new class of 2017! (All stats from here.) Class of 2017 Acceptance Rate | Create infographics Class of 2017 Applicant Pool | Create infographics Anatomy of the Class
- Published in Princeton in the News
Week in Review: Bad A$$ Edition (July 9 – 15)
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
by Alice Su
First up, shout out to our incoming freshmen! Princeton 2016 is getting all worked up this week – with good reason, since they’ve received both their res college assignments and chance to flip through the fall frosh seminars catalogue. It includes the classic free trip (!) seminars with promises of fall breaks in Costa Rica
- Published in Alumni, Fun, Goings On, Internet, Week in Review
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Annual Giving, Asians, Bad A$$, CDY, comics, elitism, Harry Potter, Jonathan Schwartz, Joyce Carol Oates, Justin Bieber, ke$ha, prefrosh, Princeton is really rich
Goodbye Prefrosh, Hello Reunions
Monday, 30 April 2012
by Abby Klionsky
The University hardly waited for the prefrosh to leave before they began setting up for Reunions, plural, with a capital R. Expect to start seeing full fences go up soon, making it impossible to take shortcuts (unless you’re particularly good at hopping the ten-foot-tall wooden blockades meant to keep strangers out and beer-wielding alum in).
Preview Weekend Round 2
Sunday, 29 April 2012
by Dana Bernstein
Preview weekend round 2 has now come and gone. Already forgotten how awesome it was? Here’s a video of the prefrosh exiting Richardson Auditorium at Alexander Beach (lesson number one, prefrosh: Alexander Beach is not an actual beach) Thursday afternoon. If you watch long enough, you can hear them blasting “Call Me Maybe” on the
- Published in Goings On
SOCIAL MEDIA ROUND-UP: Prefrosh and killer squirrel edition
Monday, 23 April 2012
by Abby Greene
Another week, another round of Princeton-related internet commentary. Here’s what’s up this week: Princeton FML On Prefrosh and happiness: On terrifying things:
- Published in Goings On, The INKternet, Uncategorized
Out and About: the Prefrosh Activities Fair
Sunday, 22 April 2012
by Dana Bernstein
Hey Princeton! The prefrosh activities fair was hoppin’ on Friday afternoon. It was a sea of orange lanyards, Princeton drawstring backpacks (why didn’t we get those last year??), and, of course, the overwhelmed prefrosh. Oh, and a bunch of crazy people yelling at the prefrosh to join their club/activity/sports team/[insert group here]. Here are some
- Published in Goings On, Student Guides
College Confidential: One Prefrosh’s Burning Questions
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
by Vivienne Chen
Filed under the header “Social Questions” on the endless source of high school angst known as College Confidential, one prospective member of the class of 2016 is dying to understand the complex social fabric and intersectional identities at Princeton. Sorry, what I meant to say was this: Yes, I believe he identified himself as of the
- Published in Internet
The Prefrosh Are Coming! The Prefrosh Are Coming!
Sunday, 08 April 2012
by Dana Bernstein
Last week, we showed you pictures of admissions officers doling out the fate of thousands of high schoolers. But the admissions officers can’t rest just yet. Now, they’re busy getting ready for the arrival of the new Princeton young’uns at Preview in two weeks. Friday afternoon, they were spotted filming students in Forbes for their
- Published in Goings On
21 Questions With … the Prefrosh of 2015
Sunday, 10 April 2011
by Lauren Wyman
PRINCETON PREFROSH ARE CONFUSED BY CAMPUS MAPS, THINK GRITS SOUND DISGUSTING AND REALLY, REALLY LIKE SUPERMAN [Editor’s Note: I am extremely excited to reveal our first-ever 21 Questions with a composite person! Here, one collective prefrosh answers all our questions.] What were you doing 72 minutes before the admit decisions came out? Since I’m a
- Published in 21 Questions
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admissions, bobble heads, grits, knock knock jokes, nameless buildings, oatmeal, prefrosh, Princeton Preview, Princetonians, Rugrats, smelly books, superman
Prefrosh Officially Freaking Out
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
D-Day is upon us. That would be Decision Day, when the fateful email arrives: in? or out? You remember what it’s like to be there. I mean, this isn’t just any shot at acceptance, this determines the next four years of their lives – maybe the rest of their lives. This year’s admission rate was
- Published in Goings On
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