<p>I guess that you just answered the OP’s question by speculation.</p>
<p>princeton ftw!</p>
<p>If this isn’t engineering, I’d choose Princeton.</p>
<p>They’re both fine schools, of course. It may come down to whether you look at the cross-country travel that would be involved as a plus or a minus. </p>
<p>Way back when, after I was rejected at Princeton, I went to another school close to where I grew up on the East Coast for a couple of years before transferring to Stanford. I enjoyed exploring another part of the country in while in college; not everyone does. My Stanford roommate transferred there from Yale after deciding he’d rather be closer to home on the West Coast. </p>
<p>I’m not an engineer, but have worked in-house as a lawyer for a Silicon Valley company that mostly employed electrical engineers. I can only recall having one engineer whom I knew to be a Princeton graduate; I’ve known dozens who went to Stanford. Your plan to come back to the West Coast for graduate school makes sense from that perspective.</p>
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<p>Most of CC is speculation anyway.</p>