Trustees call for more students.
The increase would be phased in over four years, probably beginning three or four years from now after additional dormitory and dining space has been constructed. Our recommendation is that the University should reaffirm these commitments. At the same time, we believe that Princeton can best meet these and other important goals if it increases each undergraduate class from its current size of roughly 1,150 to about 1,275. Princeton has no interest in becoming larger for the sake of being larger. But it does have an interest in optimizing its contributions to higher education, to the world of scholarship and to society in ways that are consistent with its mission.