<p>Perhaps I am misreading the statements here but a couple points might benefit from clarification. For the class of 2016 there are 154 international students from 57 countries. I know that quite a few more than that were actually accepted since I saw close to 70 different countries on the initial admitted students’ website last year. However for it to be less than 1% admission rate for even the 154 students who actually matriculated, more than 15 500 students would have needed to apply internationally to Princeton. There were just under 27,000 applicants in total - I find it difficult to believe that only 12,000 of the students were American. I can easily believe that being accepted as an international student presents a different set of challenges (my son is one of them and a freshman this year in BSE at Princeton so we went through it) however I don’t believe the presented statistic is accurate. As for Canadians (whose education system is likely the most similar to the USA’s system) I believe there are around 20 or 25 students in the class of 2016. </p>
<p>Out of 5,220 undergraduate students, 552 or 10.6% are currently international students. Princeton does not publish admission rates for internationals to my knowledge but I do believe it is considerably higher than 1%.</p>