Harvard, Princeton or Yale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hands down, I'd pick Yale. ITA about the country club aspect of Princeton, and the undergrad experience at Harvard is not great.

As a Harvard grad, I agree.

[Anonymous]

Of the three, I applied only to Princeton and ended up going there.

I had a good time but, when I visited friends at Yale, I thought it was on a different plane and wished I'd applied there instead. The residential colleges were nicer; the students were more intellectual and less pre-professional; and there was just more going on around the campus compared to Princeton, where so much seems to center around the eating clubs on Prospect. On the other hand, my friends did need to take more security precautions in and around New Haven than I ever worried about in Princeton.

I've visited Harvard as well and it didn't appeal to me the same way. It felt colder and people seemed more overtly arrogant.

[Anonymous]

BTW, DD at Yale (junior) has not had any security concerns. We really love New Haven. Of course, further away from campus there are some sketchy areas, but the campus and surrounding streets feel quite safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTW, DD at Yale (junior) has not had any security concerns. We really love New Haven. Of course, further away from campus there are some sketchy areas, but the campus and surrounding streets feel quite safe.

Glad you like Yale, but saying "we really love New Haven" is pushing it, don't you think, even by the gushy boosterism standards of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd go for Princeton.

Then again, snobs have never bothered me. I am one.

I guess they don't teach humility there.

[Anonymous]

I have very close friends who went to each of these. Would definitely pick Yale based on their experiences and mine visiting them while they were there.

[Anonymous]

Why is it that everyone touts Yale's residential college system as unique? Harvard has a residential college system as well. Is Yale's different?

[Anonymous]

We do love New Haven. The restaurants are great, the New Haven Hotel is very nice, and the campus is gorgeous! I went to Princeton, and I am very glad that DD decided to go to Yale. The atmosphere at Princeton is cold by comparison. Yes, I gush. Can't say enough about how wonderful Yale is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Princeton, no question.

It just seems more cosmopolitan, more glamorous, more artistic than the other schools to me.

Plus F. Scott Fitzgerald went there and that's pretty much the match point.

I went to both and, to me, Princeton seemed really suburban/country club/provincial by comparison.

[Anonymous]

Oops -- meant to say both Princeton and Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do love New Haven. The restaurants are great, the New Haven Hotel is very nice, and the campus is gorgeous! I went to Princeton, and I am very glad that DD decided to go to Yale. The atmosphere at Princeton is cold by comparison. Yes, I gush. Can't say enough about how wonderful Yale is.

Now you just sound silly. Yale has a lot going for it, no doubt, but most would say that Princeton is a warmer and more undergraduate-oriented environment.

[Anonymous]

Princeton undergrad and Yale for graduate school. I would pick Yale for undergrad If I were going to college now. Both great, but I think Yale is more well rounded and the resiIdentical college system is fabulous. The PP who expressed concern about security has not been there for awhilE. New Haven has changed a lot since I was there and the surrounding areas are safe.

[Anonymous]

Yale is too cold. Plus, the class jerk of my DC's class went there.

Princeton is fine.

[Anonymous]

The Harvard man would say he's right because he goes to Harvard.

The Yale man would say he's right because he has the strongest argument.

The Princeton man would say he's right because the most people agree with him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale is too cold. Plus, the class jerk of my DC's class went there.

Princeton is fine.

Ted Cruz went to Princeton, so sometimes jerky assholes slip through in the admissions process anywhere.