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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've known quite a few Yale and Princeton graduates and, while this is anecdotal, more of the Yale graduates have struggled as adults than the Princeton graduates.  One high school friend who attended Yale was a journalist who committed suicide (leaving behind two teenagers); another family friend has struggled to hold down any job for more than a year or two; and a work colleague ends up in constant hot water with HR due to their volatile behavior.  I also know some Yale graduates who've been quite successful, including a friend who is a tenured professor at a top university and a Hollywood producer who is probably one of the most active LBGTQ activists in the country.  In comparison, the Princeton people I know have almost uniformly been successful, even when they weren't lighting the world on fire, and steadier overall.

If I had to hypothesize, I'd say Princeton does a better job of preparing young adults for the real world.  Princeton is often referred to as a "bubble" because of its suburban location, but I don't think they constantly go out of their way to reinforce a sense among students that they are the "best" the way that Harvard and Yale do.  It may make the undergraduate experience slightly less "fun," but then the real world is less of a rude awakening.

OP's kid has two great choices, but if I had to choose I'd go with Princeton. [/quote]

This is hard to reconcile with the 8 suicides at Princeton over the past three years.[/quote]

Yale has also had its share of students (and graduates) with mental health issues, as illustrated by the NYT article another poster linked to.  Some of this appears to be generational.

FYI, there have been 8 deaths of Princeton students (not all undergraduates) over the past 3 years or so - a time period during which over roughly 10,000 students attended the school.  All of the deaths were tragic, but not all were suicides. [/quote]

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