<p>I apologize in advance as I've posted this in a number of other forums as well :p For the admitted students: Any idea when prefrosh is this year?</p>
<p>Last year it was around April 14-16 I think. Sadly, ED acceptees are not really invited. Well they can go, but apparently the university will not provide housing for them. Which is too bad, because we ED kids are awesome.</p>
<p>By the way, have you checked out the astro at Princeton? On the website I read somewhere that the department has like 15 faculty members and 10 undergraduates, which is pretty amazing. It almost makes up for the fact that the astrophysical sciences building is ugly as sin.
Behold: <a href="http://www.astro.princeton.edu/images/peyton_hall_photo_smaller.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.astro.princeton.edu/images/peyton_hall_photo_smaller.jpg</a></p>
<p>hehe. Actually, from this view it looks pretty charming. Very nice landscaping and background around it, it seems.</p>
<p>Princeton's astro is one of the best in the country (I'd put it up there with Harvard, Caltech, and Berkeley, probably). And the people there are really friendly, too--I was at an astro conference in D.C. and some Princeton/IAS came up to my poster and they were so nice, and we had some really great discussions. An off-hand comment by one of the professors I talked to actually gave me a really good research idea that could end up becoming something big.</p>
<p>Anywho, thanks ;) Looking so far like only Harvard's prefrosh will be giving me problems if I get in, lol.</p>
<p>Actually according to Nasa Astrophysicist Tim Kallman the top few Astro programs are Princeton, Caltech, UC Berkeley, and University of Chicago.
(see other thread for detail).</p>
<p>Which thread is that at?</p>
<p>I'm a bit suspicious about UChi's undergrad astro program. It's only a specialization in the physics major and just became one about 7 years ago. But it's got some pretty nice research coming out of it, certainly, although I think it's more physics-y than observational.</p>