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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard/MIT has Boston...Yale has train to NYC's Union Station...Chicago has Chicago...Stanford has SF...Penn has Philly and DC and NYC access. Even Brown has Providence and Boston somewhat close.

Is Princeton as isolated as it seems?[/quote]

The reality is they don't. Even most Penn or Columbia kids do not go into Philly or NYC respectively too often [b]even though the schools are literally in the city.[/b] For Princeton it is even harder. People usually stick around. [/quote]

I hate to break this to you, but Columbia is [i]in[/i] NYC, so that might explain why you don't hear about their travels TO NYC very often. I mean, I know Morningside Heights feels as distant as Antarctica when you're living in the West Village, but it really is located in Manhattan.  :D

Likewise, U Penn is located in [i]Philadelphia proper.[/i] No need to "commute."

And, just to further blow your mind -- back when I was an undergrad at Columbia, I'd sometimes get a call from an old high school friend at UPenn at 6PM on a Friday, inviting me to a party that night. And thanks to NJ Transit and SEPTA, I'd swing out the door at 7PM in NYC, and be in her dorm room in Philadelphia by midnight, just when the party was starting to get good.

Never bothered to go to Princeton for the weekend, though. Had no desire to run into my cousins while out partying.  :lol:  
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I hate to break it to you but I said that both school are in the city. however kids do not leave the campus every weekend to go to Center City in philly or downtown manhattan in NYC.  I trust you didn't commute to philly from NYC every other weekend right? Even if you did, most students do not. [/quote]

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