students look younger than at most universities because there are comparatively fewer graduate students

Older in the sense of appearing jaded and tired - not chronological age.

Claudine Gay described it well in an interview for the Stanford student newspaper when she was in college:

“Princeton is cold, traditional and austere. Stanford has a much more nurturing, humane environment. Everybody at Princeton was already middle-aged. At Stanford people are working but still seem to be having a really good time.”

Anonymous wrote:Even just visiting the campus it just feels odd for a college. Not a lot of smiling people or kids out playing frisbee.

The students there just feel much older and more somber. It doesn’t feel like a happy place.

This sounds like the sort of nonsense that only someone either trying to dissuade other kids from applying to improve their own kid’s chances or unhappy that their school is rated below Princeton would write.

I guess when you’re the top-rated school for undergraduate education in the country some people will always want to take you down a notch. But it’s literally an idyllic setting for tossing frisbees on a nice day and of course the students look younger than at most universities because there are comparatively fewer graduate students on campus.

Anonymous wrote:And my DC's high school has had that same number in 2 years.

Gives you perspective.

Are you in Palo Alto?

Every university has suicides. It's not the fault of the university but the pressure each of those kids has felt on their way there.

Surely this is obvious?

And my DC's high school has had that same number in 2 years.

Gives you perspective.

Anonymous wrote:

as an anthropology major, enjoyed his time there

With the right choice of major and classes it can be a good time.

Also eating clubs definitely aren’t for everyone but for some people they’re great.

For a lot of people Princeton is an environment where they can thrive but for a lot of others it can be a really really poor fit both academically and socially.

True of every single university the world over.

as an anthropology major, enjoyed his time there

With the right choice of major and classes it can be a good time.

Also eating clubs definitely aren’t for everyone but for some people they’re great.

For a lot of people Princeton is an environment where they can thrive but for a lot of others it can be a really really poor fit both academically and socially.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just found this video from a current student and found it very telling:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfT1FIapzM

I’ve heard similar things about Princeton from recent alums.

Thank you for posting this. As a Princeton alum, it rings true to me.

Really? It's nothing like my experience or the experience of the vast majority of alumni I know.

Nor mine, nor my Pton sophomore child's. I don't think this one kid's goofy click-bait videos are representative. "Every upperclassman feels the same way" kind of tips him off as an unreliable narrator.

Anonymous wrote:Somehow I'm not finding it shocking to hear that a BSE in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science from Princeton is a heavier lift and perhaps more stressful than majoring in Art History at Brown or Yale.

Ha ha! This.

Even just visiting the campus it just feels odd for a college. Not a lot of smiling people or kids out playing frisbee.

The students there just feel much older and more somber. It doesn’t feel like a happy place.

Mrs Obama went to Princeton and was very unhappy. Her kids didn't apply there. One went to Harvard and other to U Mich/USC. Obviously if she wanted her girls to attend Princeton, college would've rolled a red carpet for them.

My nephew recently graduated Princeton as an anthropology major, enjoyed his time there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just found this video from a current student and found it very telling:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfT1FIapzM

I’ve heard similar things about Princeton from recent alums.

Thank you for posting this. As a Princeton alum, it rings true to me.

Really? It's nothing like my experience or the experience of the vast majority of alumni I know.

Anonymous wrote:Just found this video from a current student and found it very telling:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfT1FIapzM

I’ve heard similar things about Princeton from recent alums.

Thank you for posting this. As a Princeton alum, it rings true to me.

Same 3.8 figure from The Harvard Crimson directly:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/3/barton-grade-inflation/

That’s not the point though. The point is that Princeton is unnecessarily difficult.