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  1. Princeton-specific Questions

    First-Year Essay Questions. Please note: Princeton also requires you to submit a graded written paper as part of your application.. For A.B. Degree Applicants or Those Who Are Undecided . As a research institution that also prides itself on its liberal arts curriculum, Princeton allows students to explore areas across the humanities and the arts, the natural sciences, and the social sciences ...

  2. How to Write the Princeton University Essays 2024-2025

    Prompt 1: Princeton values community and encourages students, faculty, staff and leadership to engage in respectful conversations that can expand their perspectives and challenge their ideas and beliefs. As a prospective member of this community, reflect on how your lived experiences will impact the conversations you will have in the classroom ...

  3. 10 Stellar Princeton University Essay Examples

    Learn how to write engaging essays for Princeton admissions with real examples from successful applicants. See how they answered different prompts, showcased their interests, and highlighted Princeton's unique programs.

  4. How to Write the Princeton Supplemental Essay

    how to write Princeton Supplemental Essay Prompt #1. Princeton values community and encourages students, faculty, staff and leadership to engage in respectful conversations that can expand their perspectives and challenge their ideas and beliefs. As a prospective member of this community, reflect on how your lived experiences will impact the ...

  5. The Complete Guide to the Princeton Supplement · PrepScholar

    Whatever your story, telling some of it will provide important context for your interest in engineering. #2: Connect your interest to Princeton. Admissions counselors want to know why Princeton engineering is the only program for you. For example, say you want to focus on engineering for health professions.

  6. 5 Princeton Supplemental Essay Examples that Worked

    Here are 5 of the best Princeton essays that worked, inclunding responses to Princeton's writing supplement. I've also included some Common App essays written by admitted Princeton students. Prompt: Elaborate on an Activity. Princeton University Essay Example #1; Prompt: Last Two Summers. Princeton University Essay Example #2; Prompt ...

  7. Princeton University 2024-25 Supplemental Essay Prompt Guide

    Princeton University 2024-25 Application Essay Questions Explanation. The Requirements: 2 essays of 250 words, 1 essay of 500 words, 3 short responses Supplemental Essay Type(s): Community, Why, Oddball This is Princeton, the Number One university in the nation.

  8. How to Get Into Princeton: Essays and Strategies That Worked

    Princeton application requirements. Here is a checklist of what your child will need to assemble for their application. Princeton accepts the Common Application, the Coalition Application, and the Universal College Application. Common App Essay. Princeton supplement. Optional in 2024-2025: ACT or SAT test scores. Optional: IB, AP, or AICE ...

  9. Graded Written Paper

    Guidelines. We ask all students to submit a graded written paper for consideration as part of their application to Princeton.. When selecting a paper to submit, please keep in mind the following guidelines: The paper should be writing done for an academic course, preferably an English, social studies or history course, during the last three years of secondary school, including senior year.

  10. The Writing Center

    Open to all undergraduates and graduate students working on writing of any kind and at any stage in the process. Bring a prompt to brainstorm, a rough draft of an essay, a cover letter, a grant proposal, a personal statement, a creative piece, or an oral presentation! Standard Writing Center conferences are 50 minutes in length.

  11. How to write the Princeton supplemental essays (2024-2025)

    Princeton's 2024-2025 supplemental essays. This year, Princeton has three fairly intensive supplemental essays and three short answer questions. Princeton's three supplemental essays remain unchanged from the previous application cycle: For A.B. Degree Applicants or Those Who Are Undecided. As a research institution that also prides itself ...

  12. Princeton Supplemental Essays

    The Princeton essays vary in length, with the longest at 500 words and the shortest only 50. Additionally, the Princeton essay prompts cover a variety of topics, including your major interest, personal impact, and civic engagement. This Princeton essay guide will provide all six Princeton supplemental essay prompts.

  13. Transfer Essay Questions

    Transfer Essay Questions. Please note: Princeton requires you to submit a graded written paper as part of your application.. For A.B. Degree Applicants or Those Who Are Undecided. As a research institution that also prides itself on its liberal arts curriculum, Princeton allows students to explore areas across the humanities and the arts, the natural sciences, and the social sciences.

  14. Princeton Supplemental Essay & Princeton Essays- Expert Guide

    Princeton Essays: Quick Facts. Princeton acceptance rate: 4% - U.S. News ranks Princeton as a most selective school. Princeton supplemental essay requirements: 1 major-specific essay (~250 words) 1 work experience or extracurricular activities essay (~150 words) 2 half-page essays (~250 words) 3 short response essays (~50 words) Princeton ...

  15. How to Approach Princeton's Essays (with Real Princeton Essay Examples

    Princeton's Civic Engagement Essay: "Princeton has a longstanding commitment to service and civic engagement. Tell us how your story intersects (or will intersect) with these ideals." (250 words) To approach this prompt, first reflect on your experiences with service and civic engagement.

  16. How to Write the Princeton Supplemental Essays 2023-2024

    For its class of 2026, Princeton reports an average ACT of 33-35, a math SAT of 760-800, and a reading and writing SAT of 730-780. With the norm being top-notch standardized test scores like these - and a similarly top-notch unweighted GPA of 3.9 for previous classes - you'll need more than just a stellar transcript to stand out.

  17. How To Write the Princeton University Essays

    Most importantly, challenge yourself to write essays that are stronger than boilerplate responses about LEGOS, Minecraft, and robotics. For the 2024-2025 application cycle, Princeton University requires all applicants to answer the following six prompts. Students must first write about their lived experiences in 500 words or fewer, describing ...

  18. Princeton Essay Examples

    Why this essay worked. This is an example of Princeton essays that worked for several reasons. First, the author anchors their response to the prompt by providing a detailed account of the activities they participated in each summer.. In the first part of the response, the author gives insight into why they may not have as many extracurricular activities on their application - "my father ...

  19. Shakespeare and Company Project Releases New Exhibit, Essay

    The essays will be published by the Journal of Cultural Analytics and Modernism/modernity later this year. We'll be the first to check it out! The Shakespeare and Company Project received several grants from the Center for Digital Humanities, mostly recently a Project Enhancement Grant in 2020-21.

  20. Guest Essay: To Build a Better Bonfire, Say Farewell to the Big Three

    The total attendance for the two games: 15,502. November's Harvard-Yale game in New Haven drew 51,127 fans. Yale didn't even bother to send its band to Princeton. If there ever was a rationale for a Big Three bonfire, it's long gone. For the past 13 years, U.S. News and World Report has rated Princeton the top university in the country.

  21. Helpful Tips

    Intellectual integrity is a fundamental principle at Princeton. When you complete your application, you are asked to sign a statement certifying that all the information on the application, including the essays, is your own work. Princeton may withdraw the application or revoke the admission of any student whose essays have been written by ...

  22. Anne A. Cheng's Ordinary Disasters book release and events

    Anne A. Cheng's first book of personal essays, Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, will be released on Sept. 10, 2024, and beginning soon after, Cheng will make appearances at book stores and other locations including the Museum of Modern Art and Princeton. With Labyrinth Books, the Department of English is cosponsoring Cheng's Nov. 13 Princeton event.

  23. Korolyov

    Korolyov, also transliterated as Korolev or Korolov (Russian: Королёв), or its feminine variant Korolyova, Koroleva, Korolova (Королёва), is a common Russian surname, and the name of multiple places in Russia.It is derived from the word korol (король), meaning "king".. Korolyov may refer to:

  24. Korolyov, Moscow Oblast

    Korolyov or Korolev (Russian: Королёв, IPA: [kərɐˈlʲɵf]) is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration.As of the 2010 Census, its population was 183,402, the largest as a science city. [4] As of 2018, the population was more than 222,000 people. It was known as Kaliningrad (Калинингра́д) from 1938 to ...

  25. Korolyov

    Also spelled: Korolev. Formerly (1938-96): Kaliningrad. Korolyov: Cosmonauts Prospekt. Cosmonauts Prospekt (avenue), Korolyov, Russia. Korolyov, city, Moscow oblast (region), Central federal district, western Russia. It lies just northeast of the city of Moscow. The area, known as Kalininsky, developed after 1928 as an industrial satellite ...

  26. Korolyov

    Korolyov is a mid-sized city in North Moscow Oblast, best known as the "cradle of space exporation," as it was the center of the Soviet space program. It was also a former elite dacha location, a vacation spot for all sorts of famous Russians (e.g., Chekhov, Lenin, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, etc.). The city today has become one of the most desirable residential locations outside Moscow.