<p>What's the campus/town like in the summer?</p>
<p>It is like any other popular place in the off season. Most of the crowds are gone and most students and faculty are off campus. There are still lots of things going on though, like some students stay for summer credit courses and there are various camps for sports and if you are a really smart high school student. Prospective students still visit and do tours. I went last year in the summer for one thing and then in the fall for something else. It is a really pretty campus all year (have never seen it in winter in New Jersey) but I thought Summer was nice.</p>
<p>We visited in the summer a couple years ago and were actually surprised at how busy it was on campus - especially in the Frist Center. We did an engineering tour, looked around a number of the buildings, and shopped on Nassau Street. It must have been a busy week for tourists. </p>
<p>We later discovered that the places we visited weren’t where the students hang out anyway - even if they were on campus. But it was definitely a worthwhile visit and we loved it.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the summer/winter weather at Princeton is extreme?</p>
<p>@seoul123: It’s not extreme. It probably has the best weather compared to all the other Ivy League schools because it’s the most southern (UPenn excluded I guess).</p>
<p>@BioMaster: Haha. Thanks for the info! Oh, but it rains a lot, right?</p>
<p>The temperature in Princeton got down into the low teens (Fahrenheit) with a lot of snow last winter and usually the summers can get into the nineties with a lot of humidity so I would say that it is actually fairly extreme. You will need warm clothes for the winter and shorts and tee shirts for the summer. Not sure why the comparison to other Ivy League schools is pertinent to your question.</p>
<p>@Falcon1 Weather questions are always relative. New Jersey has better weather than the entire Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and New England. If you call New Jersey weather extreme than we can assume that you’d die of exposure in those places?</p>
<p>^^ Ludicrous retort. </p>
<p>Single digit windchill days last winter in NJ. I’d die of exposure then and so would you. Using your logic, is Princeton’s weather “fairly extreme” (my exact words) RELATIVE to Stanford’s or Duke’s or doesn’t it count because they are not in the Ivies? </p>
<p>The poor girl from Korea did not ask if Princeton’s weather was extreme relative to any specific geography (you forgot to compare it to Barrow, Alaska btw). She probably wanted to know if she should pack warm clothes for the winter and light clothes for the summer and the answer is unequivocally yes. Thanks for pointing out that weather questions are always relative. I’ll keep that in mind when someone asks me how the weather is.</p>
<p>seoul123:</p>
<p>I’ve been to Seoul and Princeton in Dec. Princeton is much more mild than Seoul.</p>
<p>^^ According to weather.com, for Princeton in Dec. the avg, high is 44 F and avg. low 27 F. For Seoul, Korea in Dec. the avg. high is 38 F and avg. low is also 27 F. Milder or not, bring a coat.</p>
<p>I just visited Princeton today, and the campus was swarming with some summer camps. You’d be surprised…
I suppose Princeton is on average warmer than Minnesota?</p>
<p>Everywhere is warmer than Minnesota!!</p>
<p>This summer has been somewhat odd. Today’s weather was cooler than usual whereas the last week or so was excessively hot. The temperatures are usually in the upper 70s to low 80s.</p>