Could Prinecton prove does it not need ED to shy away from the competitions?

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<p>I was thinking about the Prince article about the Penn attempts to stir up a football rivalry. The USNWR stuff gets written up once a year. They wrote it up again this year. But it is not a systemic concern. Of course sports results are covered, that would be ridiculous if they didn't cover the Ivy League results. I am not saying Harvard, Yale, Penn etc. don't come up in conversation or that they don't try to beat them in sports. I am just saying that at Princeton the cultural zeitgeist is not about comparing your school to any other school.</p>

<p>To understand you have to visit, unfortunately Google does not yet reveal cultural undercurrents in an unbiased way as the search will determine the results.</p>

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<p>I've visited Princeton before.</p>

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<p>Uh huh. </p>

<p>Well, I'm actually at Princeton right now, and well, no one gives a hoot about Harvard or any school one way or another. I'd guess students are too busy in their work and play to really care much about other schools. It's usually those on the sidelines that care.</p>

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<p>Oh, and by the way:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=princeton&SortField=0&PageSize=10&News=1&Opinion=2&Sports=3&Magazine=5&Arts=4%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=princeton&SortField=0&PageSize=10&News=1&Opinion=2&Sports=3&Magazine=5&Arts=4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>To judge things by this methodology, then, strikes me as rather silly...</p>

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<p>Different articles bubble to the top with this search (which doesn't turn up all the nineteenth century sports stories): </p>

<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=princeton&SortField=1&SearchWhat=Articles&PageSize=50&News=1&Opinion=2&Arts=4&Month1=1&Day1=1&Year1=1988&Month2=9&Day2=17&Year2=2006%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=princeton&SortField=1&SearchWhat=Articles&PageSize=50&News=1&Opinion=2&Arts=4&Month1=1&Day1=1&Year1=1988&Month2=9&Day2=17&Year2=2006&lt;/a> </p>

<p>But, yeah, some students care about what goes on at the Brand X other college (to judge by campus newspaper articles) and I suppose many do not. People who are still deciding where to apply, and the happy applicants who are admitted to more than one college, may look for information wherever they can about which college to attend. Certainly campus visits (which I have enjoyed at most elite United States colleges, back when I had occasion to travel on business to those colleges) and Google searches and CC discussions all enter into the mix, with each perhaps being more convincing to some applicants than to others.</p>

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<p>Fair enough. And yes, searches can yield almost anything.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=princeton&SortField=0&SearchWhat=Articles&PageSize=10&News=1&Opinion=2&Sports=3&Magazine=5&Arts=4&Month1=1&Day1=1&Year1=2000&Month2=9&Day2=17&Year2=2006%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=princeton&SortField=0&SearchWhat=Articles&PageSize=10&News=1&Opinion=2&Sports=3&Magazine=5&Arts=4&Month1=1&Day1=1&Year1=2000&Month2=9&Day2=17&Year2=2006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Yep. It's funny you should mention "yield." </p>

<p><a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/search.jsp?searchString=Harvard+yield&minDateMonth=1&minDateDay=1&minDateYear=1989&maxDateMonth=9&maxDateDay=17&maxDateYear=2006&section0=true&section2=true&section4=true&section6=true&section8=true&section10=true&section3=true&section5=true&section7=true&section9=true&doSubmit=true%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/search.jsp?searchString=Harvard+yield&minDateMonth=1&minDateDay=1&minDateYear=1989&maxDateMonth=9&maxDateDay=17&maxDateYear=2006&section0=true&section2=true&section4=true&section6=true&section8=true&section10=true&section3=true&section5=true&section7=true&section9=true&doSubmit=true&lt;/a> </p>

<p>As to the OP's original question, I think Princeton could, and to assert that it is a "peer" of the SCEA/no-EA colleges should, end its ED program. Princeton would still get great applicants if it did, because it has a great undergraduate program and great financial aid. What matriculants it would get from its fine pool of admitted applicants would be an interesting empirical question, but they wouldn't be lousy students in any case.</p>