If you had to choose between Harvard, Yale, or Princeton which would you pick?
<p>yale. is. hot.</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton are the best bets. Yale seems too focused on the humanitites, although if thats where you want to go then its good. But the real reason its that Yale is way too far up there, and it gets cold pretty quick after New York. Also New Havan is no good at all.</p>
<p>Harvard- Name Brand, Money/Endowment, Improving Engineering and Science, Even dropouts are BBBBillionaires, Traditionally has the best alumni (but for these years it goes to Yale and the Prez Buddies) Boston, 1st on Rankings</p>
<p>Princeton- Aesthetic Quality, 100% Undergraduate focused, Academic Rigor and less grade inflation, tied with Harvard for 1st on Rankings</p>
<p>Yale- Aesthetic Quality, Tradition, Much more community based, Currently has one of the more known alumni class (Kerry, Bush, and Jodi Foster)</p>
<p>Bad News</p>
<p>Harvard- Rampant Grade Inflation, Even with endowment it costs an arm and a half a leg, less close knit, less focused on undergrad</p>
<p>Princeton- Although Princeton Jersey is nice it is kinda far off so you really dont have any college town, no real grad program so you cant stay for the long trip, </p>
<p>Yale- New Havan (period), Too much harvard bashing, too humanitites based</p>
<p>At the end of the day, if you get into ANY of these schools the you win anyway. BUT HARVARD USUALLY WINS BY NAME BRAND ALONE.</p>
<p>Schools that are Equal to HYP
Stanford
UC berkeley
MIT
Amherst
Oxford
Cambridge
IIT
Tokyo
Peking
Some of the european business institues.</p>
<p>Princeton practices too much "strategic admissions." UC Berkeley is woefully unselective. Oxford and Cambridge are universities of the past, have no prestige in the modern day, and have pathetic endowments. Only Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and MIT are the best of the best of the best.</p>
<p>What do you mean by strategic admissions?</p>
<p>What level of education are we talking about here? undergraduate or graduate?</p>
<p>most likely undergraduate</p>
<p>Stanford :)</p>
<p>but of those three? Princeton, no question. I freaking love that school, and it's the only one that gave Stanford a real run for its money. I didn't like Harvard at all, and didn't even bother applying to Yale 'cause I'm a physicser.</p>
<p>I still think there are some gems of the world like;</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins- Great Medecine program (bio, life science, chem), Located in the <em>Good</em> part of Baltimore, Lots to do and see</p>
<p>Georgetown- Another good Baltimore-DC corridor school, with a great foreign policy, diplomacy, foreign language, etc school, located in Georgetown which is the Heart of NW Washington, DC which is one of the wealthiest quadrants of any city in America (comparable to Fifth Ave, Rodeo Drive)</p>
<p>U Chicago- Moving up real quick, Chicagos crime has gone down and looks promising for everyone, some really unique CAREER FOCUSED programs</p>
<p>Amherst- Still one of the best, if not the best, LAC in America, Talk about fostering intellectuallism, plus located outside Boston but not to far</p>
<p>Cornell- Maybe the unsung hero out of all the Ivies, it is its own town, has some really good programs, and gives people a better chance then HYPS</p>
<p>U Penn- Great school located in a great part of Philly, has some really good graduate schools like Wharton</p>
<p>Washington U in St.Lous- Agressive advertising program that turned it into a sucess over night, high standards, good faculty, St.Louis has some opportunites not as much as LA or New York or Boston or DC/BALTIMORE but some.</p>
<p>Duke- Stellar sports program, great academics, Durham is kinda quiet but its still all good</p>
<p>Columbia- Located in the Heart of the Capital of the World, kinda tight knit and inviting, really metropolitan and cosmopolitin, academically on par with HYPS</p>
<p>A lot more schools, dont just assume HYPS is for everyone.</p>
<p>xinhua > peking </p>
<p>haha</p>
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Princeton practices too much "strategic admissions."
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gimme the hard evidence and ill believe it. of the couple students there i asked, one picked princeton over harvard, the other picked princeton over harvard and stanford.</p>
<p>personally, id go with stanford, just because i have an interest in engineering and i wanted to get away from my hometown, but it really depends on what you want to do, and who you are. engineering- go with P over HY. history- go with P over HY. economics- dont go to Y. ur a big new york sports fan- dont go to H. ur into becoming a politician- go to Y. ur into the intellectual side of politics- go to P.</p>
<p>but undoubtedly Princeton cares the most about its undergraduates, followed by Yale. Harvard simply cares very little about its students, as shown by the poor level of happiness observed on campus through student surveys.</p>
<p>Peking U, is a really tough school to get into. Tokyo, India IT, and Peking are the top three schools outside of the UK/US spehere. Although you are kinda restricted on idealogical pursuit at Peking cough <em>Commi</em> cough cough , you have killer opportunities in science.</p>
<p>i would take berkeley and amherst off that list. theyre good, but just one notch below the others.</p>
<p>dot, xinhua is better in almost every way except literature. more liberal too.</p>
<p>Where is Xinhua, and is it a public university that everyone in China can attend. I was under the assumption especially after that 2020 report on Chinese education that Peking was the Harvard of China. Plus isnt Peking the Capital University. What are the selectivities of both these schools, is it like IIT which is 1-2%.</p>
<p>It's Tsinghua, and it's next doors to Peking (about a 10 minute drive). Entrance to Tsinghua and Peking are based on the 'gao kao', or literally 'high exam', which is wickedly competitive. They take the highest scorers on the entrance exam. I'm not sure what the percentage they take is, but I would not be surprised if it's around 1 or 2%. However, the applicant pool is fairly self selecting, so it might be higher than that.</p>
<p>Williams has to be right there in your list of equivalents!</p>
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Princeton practices too much "strategic admissions."
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complete bs.</p>
<p>Whats williams?</p>
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Princeton practices too much "strategic admissions."
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<p>What difference does that make to the quality of the education at Princeton? Harvard is known for its alumni, faculty and research, not 9.1% - i.e. it matters what comes OUT of Harvard, not what goes in (or fails to go in).</p>