H, P, or Y- Which would you Choose?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Which is your favorite/least favorite: Harvard, Princeton, or Yale?
Why?</p>

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<p>Princeton. Any school Carlton Banks approves of, I approve of.</p>

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<p>I like Yale. It strikes me as the most scholarly of the three.</p>

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<p>P for it's setting and undergrad focus. Least favorite is H because kids are least happy there. Yale is a wonderful school but New Haven is a problem.</p>

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<p>ugh.......</p>

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<p>Harvard all the way.</p>

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<p>^ thank you. Harvard's obviously the best...it's right by Boston yo</p>

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<p>P, as long as it stands for Penn instead of Princeton.</p>

<p>Unless we're talking about grad school. Then it's Harvard FT(obvious)W</p>

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<p>Princeton. </p>

<p>Best UG focus, smallest school, seems the most fun, nicest campus.</p>

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<p>Harvard</p>

<p>10 char</p>

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<p>Princeton...</p>

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<p>No wrong answer--just different shades of grey. Putting differences of location & majors aside, my impression is that each of the schools has a different feel. Princeton is a bit more conservative, Yale is the most open & accepting while Harvard is in the middle & is the most serious. Of course, these impressions are gross oversimplifications, but if one truly has the choice of the three, then I hope that my thoughts help.</p>

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<p>heyya -- it's not that it is a silly question.. well it may be if you're not all-everything and actually have a chance to be the one in 12 who gets in to one of them, or about 1 in 30 who is accepted at all three.</p>

<p>There are tens of threads going on for page after page comparing each of the three against the other two plus Stanford. Just use the search function.</p>

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<p>lol, I would choose: Harvard, Yale, Princeton.</p>

<p>I really don't get how Princeton does not have the big 3 trifecta of med, biz, and law schools...</p>

<p>Princeton has to have the best undergraduate focus out of all three of the schools tho. As a result of not having those graduate schools...</p>

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I really don't get how Princeton does not have the big 3 trifecta of med, biz, and law schools...</p>

<p>Princeton has to have the best undergraduate focus out of all three of the schools tho. As a result of not having those graduate schools...

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<p>Except that I don't think professional schools take away from UG focus as much as offering PhDs in the same subject where one can get a BA. Dartmouth has a business and med school, while Princeton doesn't, but since Dartmouth doesn't offer a PhD in economics, history, political science, its profs would be fully focused on UG; while Princeton offers a PhD in all three disciplines, so you would think its UG students wouldn't get as much attention as they would at Dartmouth.</p>

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<p>haha, silly question...</p>

<p>Princeton of course!</p>

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<p>Harvard.</p>

<p>Prestige, prestige, prestige.</p>

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<p>Yale! I agree that the environment is different at the three, and I think the more friendly, intellectual attitude I've witnessed most in Bulldogs is the one that'd be the best for me (which is why it's the only one of the three to which I might apply).</p>

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<p>If you are looking solely at prestige, name recognition, blah, blah, blah, then the obvious choice is Harvard. You have to see what's most important to you. </p>

<p>Why not get in first, and then try to decide!?</p>

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<p>Harvard=Stanford>Yale=Princeton
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other ivies and duke and things like that</p>