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'''Princeton University''' is a small private world-class (ref) 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 offers financial aid to those students who can prove that their parents have sufficiently low income and assets. (ref) 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. (ref) 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, in its own words, "simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world."<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/ About Princeton], university website: "Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching."</ref>