<p>Did anyone here apply to both Princeton and Penn, and if so, why did you choose Princeton?</p>
<p>What departments or fields is Princeton the top in?</p>
<p>Applied to both. Got into both. Chose Princeton. Its definitely more difficult than Penn, but the alumni network and support is far superior. Smaller school so it has a great community feel to it, and the colleges really make it great. Penn just doesn't have that solidarity that Princeton has.</p>
<p>Dont mean to be cocky or anything, Penn is a great school, but usually when you tell people you go to Princeton, they dont confuse it with Princeton State. :)</p>
<p>i chose princeton over penn's prestigious joint degree in business and engineering. PM me if you want more details, but i'm very happy with my choice</p>
<p>lol i don't think anyone would ever regret choosing Princeton over ANY other school.</p>
<p>ok if I'm interested in business and international relations, which should I choose, supposing I get in of course?</p>
<p>Penn's Wharton business school is tops, Princeton doesn't even offer a business major. (You would go for economics instead.)</p>
<p>Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is the best out there for international relations.</p>
<p>Umm....Princeton.</p>
<p>A few years ago, no one would have ever even considered Penn over Princeton, but thanks to Penn's self-aggrandizing, USNews-boosting tactics over the last decade, people actually consider it to be a peer school. Hah.</p>
<p>unless say you got into the wharton Huntsman program, or just MAYBE even Wharton, go for Princeton. As it's been mentioned, Woody Woo is the best out there for IR. You don't need a buisness major to go into buisnesses out there; for all you know you can major in say, East Asian Studies and still go out and get hired by firms like goldman sachs or w/e. </p>
<p>princeton. do it. you kno you want to.</p>
<p>^ is so true.</p>
<p>Princeton unless you're business for sure...in which case you need to think it over. Or if you're accepted to one of the joint-degree programs...in which case you need to think it over even more.</p>
<p>I hope we need not even get into the slight problem of sampling bias right now ;)</p>
<p>In the name of diversity (and further self-aggrandizement), I say pick Penn. Penn's international relations program is excellent and their business school is peerless. The regional studies programs/departments upon which any international relations program rests are spectacular at Penn. Furthermore, you should look into the Huntsman Program which is literally "international studies & business"</p>
<p>Consider also the environment you want, as while only a fool would argue that a Penn degree has more snob appeal than a Princeton degree, the actual job opportunities are no different. (the average starting salaries of princeton graduates is ~$50k and Penn CAS graduates is ~$46k. A marginal difference, but you cannot directly compare as it doesn't include many of the Penn students going after the high-paying finance jobs, as they are in the wharton school and not counted in this CAS survey) My baby pro is at Princeton and after visiting I realized I could never go there. It simply does not meet my expectations on what I expect out of college life. </p>
<p>Different strokes for different folks. Go to both schools and see for yourself which one seems more "you"</p>
<p>Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is great. There's nothing like doing Policy Task Forces junior year. No other Ivy has anything like it.</p>
<p>If you just want to make a lot of money, you can study anything at any good college and go into i-banking. They really don't care about your major.</p>