Princeton aims for excellence and diversity.  What is diversity, though?  We arrive at Princeton with our own set of intellectual and cultural ideas.  Once here, we inevitably challenge each other’s backgrounds and discover something new, unforeseen, and even disorientating. 

This is cross-pollination. It is through the interchange of ideas that we grow at Princeton and come to better understand ourselves. We learn to respect differences and appreciate the foreign. We encounter ways to take risks, solve unsettling problems, handle discomfort, and reconcile new ideas with existing beliefs. We enrich ourselves and others, our minds and our environments. 

Princeton's most successful effort towards achieving excellence has been in diversity. We achieve excellence through diversity. This is cross-pollination.  Cross-pollination is Princeton.