Increase of enrollment by 1000 students or about 20%? That is crazy; it makes us feel like Columbia. I wonder why no one protested.

Response from Vergil:

So I’m not entirely sure what the planned increase is. If you look at articles from 2016, the University references building just a seventh residential college (Perelman) with the undergraduate population planned to increase by 10 percent. Of course that earlier plan was adjusted, since Princeton now is proposing an eighth (unnamed I think) additional res college which itself could house an additional 500 students. I’m not sure on the timeline for all of this, but I think Perelman is scheduled to be completed in time for the fall of 2022.

You might be interested in this article (https://paw.princeton.edu/article/construction-ahead-work-two-residential-colleges-usher-new-wave-projects), since it actually suggests the eighth res college would be used more as “swing space” to hold existing students from Wilson/First.

Edit:

You should also really checkout the whole document Princeton made for the campus expansion (https://en.calameo.com/read/0008049750f1d739b8d74?page=11), there’s some insight on their motivations.

Response from Aspen:

also more space means more people that can afforded the opportunity to come to Princeton, which is a good thing??? Princeton’s name isn’t gonna sink to shit or anything because we have a couple more students… we’ll still have ~6000 so like chill???