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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Princeton, because Reunions at Princeton blow Yale reunions out of the water.  Twenty plus years since graduation, going to Princeton Reunions every May or June is always the most fun I have all year. [/quote]

I came on here to say this! I'm a Yale alum (chose between Yale and another school- dismissed Princeton because I was naive and 17). I have a lot of Princeton friends and am very envious of their reunions, which are representative of their ties among their alumni. I also appreciate Princeton's campus. It's much more compact and accessible. Yale's academic buildings are strewn up a long, skinny stretch of hill and it doesn't have the same campus feel as Princeton, nor the same beautiful surroundings off-campus. I feel like I spent my entire Yale career waiting at lights to cross the street. Yale is very focused on the undergraduate experience compared to Harvard, Penn or Columbia, but Princeton even more so than Yale because they don't have a law, medical or business school.

The reason I didn't consider Princeton was because I was intimidated by eating clubs and worried about whether I could find a group of friends to do that with. In hindsight, Yale was just as socially fragmented within its residential colleges and I managed that, so it would have been fine.

Final petty reason: Yale has terrible licensing and their gear has sucked for 20 years since they turned everything over to B&N, plus they're an Under Armour school and that stuff fits weirdly and looks awful. All of my classmates complain about it. Princeton is a Nike school and does a much better job with licensing and has better gear because they still have an independent bookstore. [/quote]

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