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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>. It has the highest endowment per student of any school in the world, and competes with Harvard and Yale in the Ivy League, and Stanford as well.
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.