<p>To current students at these ivy leagues:
What are the best things about your school? (seriously)
ex. how are your teachers, the dorms, the atmosphere, ect...</p>
<p>"evolution is kinda stupid...
so some monkeys were smart enough to become humans but the other monkeys stayed monkeys
i am fully human... not part monkey or any other animal" </p>
<p>ouch dude.</p>
<p>Anyway, because I want to spark some interesting discussion, both Yale and Princeton offer undergraduate educations.</p>
<p>Princeton is nothing like harvard and Yale.</p>
<p>I expect there are at least a few similarities....</p>
<p>What makes Princeton so different from Yale?</p>
<p>i think princeton and yale are similar in their undergraduate focus and maybe beautiful architecture. and yale and harvard are similar in their housing systems. not sure a/o princeton/harvard.</p>
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Princeton is nothing like harvard and Yale.
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Yale is also nothing like Harvard and Princeton.
I would also go on to say that Harvard is nothing like Princeton and Yale.</p>
<p>...well, they do all offer rigorous undergraduate curriculums that are comparable. Social life, traditions, etc. are all rather different.</p>
<p>I think that to say the three are completely different from each other is stretching the truth much too far. While they each have unique traits, they are also extraordinarily similar.</p>
<p>Honestly, for the longest time last year when I was debating between Princeton and Yale, I couldn't tell the difference between the two. While I now recognize that they are two truly different universities, they have a lot in common (esp. in terms of student body, student cohesion, faculty accessibility, extracurricular opportunities, etc.). The location's, however, are almost like night and day (only if NH were slightly bigger were it be completely so). Princeton has the Street, Yale has its colleges, and Harvard has Cambridge and its Houses. They're different, but not drastically so.</p>
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I think that to say the three are completely different from each other is stretching the truth much too far. While they each have unique traits, they are also extraordinarily similar.
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We'll agree to disagree.
I've spent a lot of time on each campus, and have noticed significant differences in campus life and the specific values and emphasis of each university. It is true they attract similar schools (i.e. a student applying to one will often apply to at least one, if not both of the other two schools), but when it comes to some of the less tangible elements, such as school spirit, campus traditions, and the differences in lifestyle dictated purely by location (Cambridge v. New Haven v. Princeton), I would argue they are very different schools.</p>
<p>I would be more willing to believe schools in, say, a state university system are similar than HYP, the youngest of which has well over two centuries of history. I do not deny you will most likely get an equally wonderful education at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton (or a state school, for that matter), but I also believe the non-academic factors distinguish each from the others.</p>