Princeton FAQ: Get your questions answered by current students

<p>I’m a current student and don’t come to this school if you want to do medicine, law, or business after you graduate (ie. all the moneymaking things in life). It’s absolutely terrible for professionals. The lack of professional schools is also a huge deficiency. The administration at this school kills your GPA and does not care about you at all. All the awful things you have heard about grade deflation are completely true. Everyone is extremely cutthroat. Not only that, but many of the classes you will take are extremely useless, meaning you will not learn a thing that will help you about medicine or law for example. Liberal arts is a complete joke and it is rapidly becoming obsolete. Go to somewhere like Penn where they are cutting edge with their interdisciplinary stuff and have great professional programs. Also, because this school is so focused on academic research, you get a lot of really weird professors and students whom you can’t even converse with properly half the time. Princeton’s career services is also very poor because the only jobs you can find after you graduate are in new york and DC; you can’t even find a single job in Boston, which is not that far away. You can be my guest and try this school out, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.</p>

<p>^Unsuccessful ■■■■■ is unsuccessful.</p>

<p>Just look at admissions statistics to graduate schools.</p>

<p>if I indicated that I am Canadian by citizenship on the application but live and attend high school in the US, am I considered domestic or international? (I have a US transcript, state-wide awards, etc that indicate I did my studies in the US)</p>

<p>^^ C’mon. The term “■■■■■” is used way too often around here. If you look back at other posts by alltheway, you will quickly see that he/she is indeed a Princeton student. </p>

<p>I get the feeling that he/she is struggling right now and is a bit frustrated. I think it is a tough time to be graduating from college!!</p>

<p>powerbomb - I visited Princeton a couple of days ago. A student asked a similar question, and the admissions counselor said that you would be considered a domestic student.</p>

<p>If a school, like Princeton, is need-blind, how do they stay in budget? At some point in the process, wouldn’t looking at financial statistics be needed?</p>

<p>Because they have such vast resources, they can crank up the financial aid budget as needed.</p>

<p>How do you compare pre-med at Princeton and Yale?</p>

<p>@AdventureDreamer:</p>

<p>Financial aid only costs Princeton about $110 million dollars a year, which is really a drop in the bucket compared to its operating budget.</p>

<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I’ve been taking Biology/chemistry courses at UW Madison for the past 2 years, and am now up to junior year courses in the Biology department there. What would be the chance that Princeton would allow me to count those for placement (ie, not have to take intro biology and/or chemistry and immediately move on to more advanced courses)? I’ve heard conflicting answers from various people (the website says no, but I talked to several molec. bio profs when I visited Princeton last summer and they said yes). </p>

<p>If it helps, I’ve also taken the Biology subject GRE (Graduate Record Exam, usually taken by college seniors going to grad school) and scored in the top 3% of all test takers - would that work in my favor for exempting me from intro bio? </p>

<p>I’ve also tutored intro biology at UW Madison - again, would this have any bearing on a possible exemption?</p>

<p>What’s the bank on campus? I have Chase but I heard somewhere that most atms were Wachovia.</p>

<p>There’s a Bank of America ATM in Frist and a PNC ATM in the U-Store.</p>

<p>Is it smart to major in 2 things? Don’t you have to then do 2 senior thesis? Also, as an incoming freshman, what would be some smart things I should do or watch out for (in terms of staying on top of classes, grades, social life, etc.)</p>

<p>You cannot double-major.</p>

<p>To be less blunt then Baelor.</p>

<p>He is right you can’t double major, but you can get as many certificates as you want. A certificate is equivalent to a minor. But i know someone with a certificate in finance who got a job in finance rather then his major. so don’t let that dissuade you.</p>

<p>Sorry If this was already asked but I don’t want to sift through so many pages of posts</p>

<p>does princeton’s grade deflation policy make it really really hard to earn good grades, especially with the other really smart and talented kids in your classes? Will princeton’s deflates gpa system make it harder to get into grad school as opposed to a kid who went to a school with grade inflation, eg harvard?</p>

<p>Btw I’m asking because I want to go to law school, which looks at gpa very heavily.</p>

<p>@ bluewatermelon: depends. If you BSE. No they have no problem limiting the A’s.</p>

<p>For AB. once again it depends. It will affect the low A’s and bump them into B+'s which isnt that bad (but once again im a engineer so a B+ would be nice). In the end I think it will only affect 2 or 3 of your grades max. I mean there is no limit on B’s, only A’s.</p>

<p>Hi,</p>

<p>My financial package offered me a “Princeton Job”. Do I have to seek one out, or fill out an application or something? If so, when do you apply?</p>

<p>Usually means a library or dinning services job. There are also other jobs on campus, if you are a technical type I encourage you to apply when you are a freshman (second semester) to be an RCC (residential computing consultant).</p>

<p>How good is Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School in comparison to the international relations programs at Yale, Harvard, etc.?
Do you know the success rate for Princeton grads on the Foreign service exam?
Thanks!</p>