Where and when to drop off your sample

The daily deadline for dropping off your saliva sample in a drop box is 10:00 a.m., Monday through Friday. Samples submitted after that time will not be picked up and taken to the Lab that day. 

If you miss the 10:00 a.m. deadline on Friday, you can bring your sample in person to the testing clinic until 1 p.m. Any samples submitted after this time on Friday will be unable to be analyzed. 

Undergraduates, look to drop off your samples on the days associated with your residential college (meaning the college you were assigned to when you started at Princeton, regardless of where you are living currently). 

• Test-eligible employees on self-collection can submit on any day of the week, if you do so consistently (for example, every Monday). 
• Some staff and academic departments have designated specific days for testing; if employees have not received notice from a supervisor/chair or from covidtests@princeton.edu about a designated day, faculty and staff can choose the most convenient day for them, Monday through Friday. 

Employees: If you will miss one of your designated testing dates for any reason (vacation, illness, not being on campus, etc.), please use the Testing Absence Form.

If You Are On Campus Intermittently 

Many faculty, staff, researchers, and affiliates that are eligible for testing are not on campus every week. If your presence on campus varies from week to week, only come for testing during the weeks when you will already be on campus.

You can also time your testing for when you will already be on campus. If your schedule is that you are on campus on Mondays, you can come for testing on Mondays. 

Students Residing Off Campus — Parking Guide

Undergraduate students residing off campus do not need a permit for the drop-and-go parking locations listed below. Parking in any numbered lot or garage on campus, including visitor Lot 23, is restricted, and will result in a parking citation. In addition to free short term parking (note time restrictions per lot) for undergraduates residing off campus, there are also metered spaces on University Place and Prospect Ave that students may utilize for testing drop off.

For drop-off at these locations, use free 1-hour spaces in Lot 8 or metered parking on University Place

• Dod Hall, Entry 2 – lobby
• Little Hall, Entry 17 near the circle
• U-Store, vestibule
• Blair Hall, Entry A inside archway
• Mathey Hall, vestibule to Common Room - Entry 5 of Hamilton Hall.

For drop-off at these locations, use free College Road 2-hour spaces or metered parking on University Place

• Bloomberg Hall, lobby entry 170W
• Class of 1981 Hall, lobby near Community Hall entrance
• Yoseloff Hall, Entry 2
• Henry Hall, Entry 1
• Wilcox Hall, 2^nd Floor lobby near Julian Street Library.

228 Alexander, rear entrance. Pull around to rear of building for drop-and-go only, no parking

Drop Box Locations

Undergraduates: please refer to your emails from covidtests@princeton.edu for additional guidance on accessible drop boxes.