Hi all,
Out of curiosity, how do Princeton students/alumni view Williams College? Do they feel that Princeton is a better school/more prestigious? Is there a healthy respect?
I think everyone, especially in graduate programs, respects both schools tremendously. However, as a member of the Ivy League, Princeton is definitely more prestigious.
The same way Harvard students view Williams students (per your other post)
Someone has too much time on their hands. Home for a snow day?
funny comment for someone with over 38,000 posts! 
It is a curious question, though. I don’t think that it i’t the case that graduate schools view Princeton or Harvard more favorably than Williams. Williams is among the top LACs in the nation.
Curious question? Its silly at best.
The OP’s posting history is this: Started by asking on the Williams forum: “Uhh, how prestigious are you really?” Then followed up with posts on Harvard and Princeton’s forums saying: “Uhh, how prestigious do you think Williams is? Do you respect Williams students?”
That’s akin to some dude walking up to your daughter, looking her up and down and saying: “Is this the best you can do? Ok. Hold on. Let me get back with you” then turning to his two buddies and saying within earshot: “So, is she hot or not? Tell me what you think. Should I ask her out?”
@zzzmmm: I’d say @jym626’s use of the term “silly” to be very generous for this obviously image and prestige conscious teen-ager or parent.
Thanks, T26E4. Those of us who have been around here for a while, and yes, have a robust post history, can usually spot the bored student home on break or for a snow day or something akin to T26’s hypotheses (hence my comment in #3). The sarcastic comment about post count from a relatively new poster is also… shall we say… silly.
@T26E4 your posts are always good for a chuckle!
So…you truly can’t see a bit–just a bit–of humor in ‘someone has too much time on their hands’ from someone with 38,000 posts? I used the term ‘curious’ because it seems like the poster is insecure, callow,young perhaps. I’m assuming it’s from a student and students are…often callow. And insecure. I thought ‘curious’ kinder than ‘silly.’ True, I have not the lofty thousands of posts that you have racked up but silly or not I shall continue to post.
Good plan to post and build up your post count Plenty of opportunity to catch up!
Trivia: the Williams Club of New York rents space off the Princeton Club of New York.
And yours are also oh so helpful in this thread topic.
^Well I hope so. They’re meant to make new posters feel more comfortable on this site and help them realize that while there may be an attempt at “tyranny of the experienced,” new voices are always welcome.
Oh please. Gotta love hyperbole. And SAT vocab words, which will be a thing of the past soon.
@T26E4 @jym626
I humbly apologize for my curiosity.
May I ask where you attended college?
As a Princeton grad 30 years out as well, I have a vague notion that Williams is a fantastic school. I would certainly be proud if our son was admitted to Williams (or most of the NESCAC schools, actually) and obtained a degree from it. And while at Princeton, I learned from a number of classmates about some outstanding schools (Rochester Institute of Technology and Pomona are two I distinctly recall) of which I had no prior idea.
And, while I certainly don’t speak for everyone, the simple fact of Ivy League or not makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. Its the quality of the education, the quality of the kids, the location, the opportunity for extracurricular participation, the preparation for graduate school etc. There is nothing about “Ivy” that guarantees that a kid is going to use the resources available.
Not that it makes a hill of beans difference where we attended college, I will share that for undergrad I attended a top 20 LAC.
Closing this thread as it’s going nowhere.