Characterize Princeton's Student Body

<p>Im doing Qbridge, and debating whether to rank Princeton or Yale number one....I love both schools but since I live in California, know little about their student Body </p>

<p>which leads to me to ask: </p>

<p>How would you characterize Princeton's Student's Body?
What seems to be the " vibe on campus"?
Who is the average Princeton Student?</p>

<p>The student body is very diverse--geographically, ethnically, religiously, etc. The street is not so diverse. Take a walk down Prospect, and you'll see mostly WASPy kids wearing Polo and Lacoste. It's definitely a preppy atmosphere. I can't comment on how it compares to Yale. I'm sure posterX will be happy to oblige.</p>

<p>posterx is ALWAYS happy to compare to Yale.</p>

<p>but I wouldn't say the street is so much more preppy than the rest of campus (granted I have limited exposure). seems like it crosses throughout many of the groups of campus, but that the major overrepresented group is the athletic one, especially at certain clubs.</p>

<p>Your question might also be answered by the profiles of current and former students found on the new Office of Admissions website. See the following thread.</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=392864%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=392864&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Princeton students, as I have said before, are earnest. Earnest and friendly. Earnest and friendly and kind of wholesome. Yale students are a little more, um, well, they vibrate at a higher pitch. And Harvard students are most openly ambitious.</p>

<p>As long as we are dealing in gross generalizations.</p>