Help!!! Princeton took me off the wait list

Colleges & Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I have not been taken off the waitlist for Princeton (yet!), but at the moment I am leaning towards Columbia because

  1. I’m very much a city person and would feel somewhat uncomfortable being in the “Princeton bubble”
  2. Going along with the city theme, it seems that there are better local internship opportunities at Columbia.
  3. Unless I misunderstood something, Columbia’s bulletin lists almost three times the number of CS classes as Princeton. (Columbia has 6 different CS “tracks” in which you can specialize.)
  4. At Columbia, single rooms abound. I’d prefer a single.</p>

<p>That said, I’m still wondering if I would go to Princeton because of its superior resources ($$$), its smaller student body, and its broad range of student activities/organizations (I don’t think Columbia has a Robotics Club or a Macintosh Group, for instance).</p>

<p>Fun fact about Princeton: There’s an active Laptop Orchestra, PLOrk (<a href=“http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/)%5B/url%5D”>http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/)</a>.
Fun fact about Columbia: Its campus can be found in GTA IV (<a href=“http://www.bwog.net/articles/digitization_is_the_sincerest_form_of_flattery)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.bwog.net/articles/digitization_is_the_sincerest_form_of_flattery)</a>.</p>