<p>So a friend of mine is down to going to either Harvard, MIT, or Princeton. She plans to major in Biology and go on to get her PhD to do research. Please help her out by giving the pros and cons to going to each school plus your own opinion on where you would personally go.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>There have been many dozens of helpful comments posted about these schools on CC lately.</p>
<p>I have degrees from Princeton and MIT so I will limit my comments to those two schools. </p>
<p>You have not told anything about your friend and her interests so I am limited to offering advice. MIT is serious science. Everyone wants to be a scientist or an engineer. MIT offers an outstanding education in science and engineering; the best in some fields.</p>
<p>Princeton offers an outstanding education in science and engineering, AND the liberal arts, AND the fine arts. If your friend wants to major in biology and to take dance, draw, play an instrument, attend plays, study a foreign language, become a creative writer, study literature or philosophy then Princeton is the choice. Her roommates at Princeton will be foreign language majors, future attorneys, science majors, economic majors, future politicians, future college professors in the liberal arts, etc.</p>
<p>Princeton is very friendly to women scientists and engineers. The president of the university is a woman biologist. The director of IT is a women. The past dean of engineering is a women. Women are over 40% of the engineering class; the national average is about 15%.</p>
<p>If your friend wants to live, eat, and breath science with everyone she meets then MIT is the bastion of science and engineering. MIT is big city; Princeton is small town.</p>