My best friend just got into Harvard, Yale, Rice, Northwestern, and Brown. He received a likely letter from Princeton, and got in Early Action at Stanford. He has narrowed the choices to the following:
Harvard
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
Yale
My friend is interested in economics and political science (or public policy, as it is called at some schools). Which school should he go to? He cares absolutely 0.00% about environment, but is mostly interested in which school will give him THE BEST education and most room for success.
<p>I'd cross off Rice....
In terms of HYPS (wow - choosing between HYPS)
Education level is the same....Your friend should look at the CC forums for each of the schools (under Ivy League)...He'll find out a lot about what the learning environment is like at each - and it's just personal preference from there.</p>
<p>If I had the choice, I'd choose based on location - Yale or Princeton.
Most likely Princeton - I'm still deciding whether or not to apply to Yale next year.</p>
<p>Solely out of curiosity, to what other schools did you apply and where did you get accepted?</p>
<p>Wow. You and your friend are really smart! If he ONLY cares about getting the best undergrad education, and you've narrowed it down to Princeton and Harvard, I'd tell him to go to Princeton. Because Princeton is smaller, I heard it's easier to get individual, focused attention from the professors than it is at places like Harvard. Also, the article that recently came out about Harvard undergrads being unhappy had a point. Harvard profs are primarily research scholars, not teaching professors.</p>
<p>Really though, tough choice your friend has to make ;) I'm sure whichever school he goes to he's going to have a fabulous education. Good luck.</p>
<p>When choosing among the top four Ivies, I dont think it's the level of education that's the biggest issue - any of them will provide all the resources necessary to get a good education.
It's more about what university provides the best environment for the individual to make the most of those resources. That varies with each person....</p>
<p>Hello all,
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<p>I have heard of it, Anushka, because my cousin lives in CS!<br>
Congratulations soliloquy!
Awakened Dream, my friend was a 1600 three by 800 national award winner who also played varsity football. haha, sounds impossible, but he did it while managing to get to finals for homecoming king. he wasn't a special admit, like an under represented minority or a legacy.</p>
<p>2vulgar, ive been trying to tell him not to jump on harvard because it's harvard. he wants the best education, not the best name...if you think harvard has the best education, so be it, but its not something thats given (ex: "duh") :)</p>
<p>When I was researching schools, it seemed to me that Princeton and Harvard would be the best bets when it came to polisci (Harvard does have the JFK school, though I'm not sure if that's part of the graduate program or not). I'm more of an English girl myself, so I couldn't give you an educated opinion about econ or engineering. </p>
<p>Tell him to go to Princeton, though, because it's prettier. "Prettiness" is real decision-making criteria, not this "what do you want to study" crap.</p>
<p>my parents are all against me hanging with the bad crowd!</p>
<p>That sounded so wrong.<br>
awakened dream: my friend's stats are
1600/3*800, 2/approximately 600, three national awards, one in science, two in music...has published articles for local newpaper, plays one varsity sport (baseball), viola first chair all-state, etc.</p>