Columbia vs Princeton vs Dartmouth
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Anonymous
I’d go with Princeton and let PP watch her Gossip Girl reruns. |
Anonymous
The annual giving trails off when alums find that their own kids get rejected. |
Anonymous
A tad overly ethnic though |
Anonymous
Racist much? I did undergrad at Columbia and grad school at Princeton (and I'm a person of color). Loved them both. You can't go wrong. Well except maybe with Dartmouth. My spouse went there--it's so cold. |
Anonymous
It’s actually telling that the alumni suppprt is the strongest even though the school is super selective and turns down many alumni kids. |
Anonymous
That did change around 7-10 years ago. Now anyone can choose to be WWS. |
Anonymous
So why is it that Princeton has the highest yield consistently and that cross-admits between the two schools pick Princeton 77% of the time? |
Anonymous
| Hmm, I went to Dartmouth too. Loved it. But I'd probably tell my own child to choose Princeton if that were an option. I think either one will open doors provided you make the most of the experience, so it's not like you can go wrong either way, but if you're on the fence I'd take the less frigid climate option. |
Anonymous
Look at the money. If the choice is between Princeton for $70,000 and non-flagship state school for $10,000, try to find the money for Princeton. If the choice is between Princeton for $70,000 and Duke for $10,000, and Duke is good in your areas of interest: Duke is a great school, too. And a kid who qualifies for a lot of aid from a school may get more love from the school generally than a kid who hasn't gotten much aid. |
Anonymous
The schools on these lists received the most votes from top college administrators for putting a particular focus on undergraduate teaching. This is a nonsensical list. Given the low sample and utter ignorance of college administrators on what kind of teaching goes on at the various schools, anybody who uses this list to determine teaching quality is asking for trouble |
Anonymous
| Princeton by a mile but I don't believe you are for real OP. No sane person would consider Duke over Princeton |
Anonymous
| I went to Princeton and hated the fact that exams took place AFTER the winter break. While this may seem like a minor quibble, it ruined the holidays for me for four years. |
Anonymous
This is a myth. They take a lot of legacy kids. Since they don't reveal the admit rate for legacies, you can't really tell the large preference. I think legacy admit rate at these schools may be 50% or higher. Compare that to a 6% admit rate for unhooked kids and this is a massive advantage, even if the other half gets rejected. |
Anonymous
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The Princeton profile says 11.2% are parental legacy. The percent of first gen students is higher (17%). 53% are domestic students of color, 12% are international, and 65% come from public schools. The Princeton of today is very different from what people think of Princeton to be.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/03/28/princeton-offers-admission-55-percent-class-2022-applicants |
Anonymous
Those numbers are meaningless unless you know the applicant pool, which they conveniently will not break down. What if the legacy applicant pool is relatively small but the acceptance rate is really high. You could still land up with 11.2% legacy kids. Don't look at the output, also consider what input could have gone in to produce that output |