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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]there's a reason that princeton alum have the highest rates of engagement and donation among the 3 schools. just take a look at reunions.[/quote]

Princeton's a fkn cult.  I've never seen harvard grads go out of their way to help out other harvard grads like I've seen princeton grads do.  They think it's some sort off duty or something.[/quote]

pp. it's absolutely fantastic. i have a daughter at P and a son at Y and the difference between the two schools is night and day in quality.[/quote]

Quality of what?  Teaching, dorms, food, campus culture or ?!?[/quote]
Seeing as they were responding to a comment on alumni, likely alumni network and support…[/quote]

In that case, the reference to "quality" seems a bit off, but perhaps PP can elaborate.  The endowment per student at Princeton is higher than the endowment per student at Yale, and Princeton is certainly more undergraduate-focused, but it's hard to see how that could translate into a big difference in the "quality" of a student's experience, academic or otherwise. Some would argue the 4-year residential college experience at Yale is preferable to the 2-year residential college + eating club/independent/odd-man "upperclassman remaining at residential college" experience at Princeton.  [/quote]

not the pp, but have a child at Princeton and she was able to easily get 1. international educational program as a freshman 2. numerous introductions to alumni network for internships 3. on campus job for pocket money.  
Our other child is at another top three (HYSM) school and Princeton definitely uses its resources to help make their undergrads successful compared to our other experience with a school that has major professional programs and makes accessing resources harder. 
But Princeton is rigorous and pushes them hard academically. Not of the faint of heart.[/quote]
This is true of all top colleges. Even the last statement, no durr a top college will be rigorous- that’s the point.[/quote]

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