<p>I would think about the attention to Undergraduate education. So much that the Graduate college is way off in the distance lol...</p>
<p>That and the absolute normality of all the people I visited. The enviornment was very hard to explain. When I was at HYPs I asked the students I stayed with "Why did you come here"
Princeton's students each had legit reasons, the strength of the undergraduate program for example. Harvard students answers were more ambiguous and one Yale student told me he didnt get into Harvard or Princeton, that is why he picked Yale. </p>
<p>However I think my opinionmay be a little slanted beacuse that the days I visited Princeton the weather was the nicest I think It could ever have been, while at Yale is was raining and freezing.</p>
<p>I'm applying with sub-600 scores (on SAT II). Hope that makes you feel better.</p>
<p>I must agree with matt. I stayed at Princeton overnight with a Jew, 2 Orientals and a random European (don't mean to be racist, just trying to describe the ethnic background). All were awesome in their own right. One of them had a 1600 SAT and was by all measures brilliant, yet was more down to earth than many of the cocky idiots I find in my school. It rained a lot when I was there...</p>