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'''Princeton University''' is a small private world-class research university in central New Jersey. It ranked #2 in US News's 2009 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list,<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search</ref>.
'''Princeton University''' is a small private world-class research university in central New Jersey. It ranked #2 in US News's 2009 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search</ref>.
Princeton is extraordinarily difficult to get into, but it covers the full financial needs of all students. Home schooled applicants are welcome; in 2002 one of them became valedictorian, and in 2009 they admitted eleven homeschooled applicants. Princeton is built around its undergraduate college and its small graduate school. [[James Madison]] was the first graduate student. [[Woodrow Wilson]], as president of the school in 1910, tried and failed to bring the two together. Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, business or divinity, but does have a schools of engineering and architecture as well as the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs.<ref> [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] nearby is totally separate, as is the Institute for Advanced Study.</ref> The Firestone Library is world famous.
Princeton is extraordinarily difficult to get into, but it covers the full financial needs of all students. Home schooled applicants are welcome; in 2002 one of them became valedictorian, and in 2009 they admitted eleven homeschooled applicants. Princeton is built around its undergraduate college and its small graduate school. [[James Madison]] was the first graduate student. [[Woodrow Wilson]], as president of the school in 1910, tried and failed to bring the two together. Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, business or divinity, but does have a schools of engineering and architecture as well as the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs.<ref> [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] nearby is totally separate, as is the Institute for Advanced Study.</ref> The Firestone Library is world famous.