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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have degrees from both Princeton and Columbia and the undergrad experience at Princeton is better, unless you want to be in (and can afford) a big city and are prepared to be more independent.  [/quote]

Same here.  The Princeton undergrads really receive a wealth of resources from the university and are pampered in so many ways.  Columbia is good too, but definitely for someone who likes the city life and independence.  I wouldn’t pick Cornell.  It’s not in the same tier of schools. [/quote]

You are right.  For CS (which is what OPs kid will study) Cornell is the clearly the best of the three.[/quote]

Not according to objective metrics.  If you look at us news and world reports rankings, Princeton is #15 for undergraduate computer science (worldwide), Columbia is #50 and Cornell is tied for #89.[/quote]
This certainly cannot be correct. Based on this ranking of research papers published by department, Cornell is #7 in the US and have 75 faculty members in CS alone.:
http://csrankings.org/#/index?all

Columbia is 13th with 49 faculty members and Princeton is 20th with 42 faculty members.

Now of course this is not an exact mapping onto undergraduate and I'd still argue Princeton provides the best CS education and has the most post-college opportunities for undergraduates. But there is no way Columbia and Cornell are that far behind Princeton for graduate school.[/quote]

Looking at research paper rankings is not a good proxy for evaluating undergraduate instruction quality.  It’s just a metric of how productive faculty are at publishing.  [/quote]

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