Princeton vs. Harvard

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<p>Comparing these schools for which will jockey you to the next career step is foolish, IMO. I would hate to be a classmate of people who think like that. Boring…and a wasted seat for Harvard or Princeton.</p>

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<p>""jomjom - you dont know English and are probably an Asian who will be rejected from both Princeton and Harvard. See you later. “”</p>

<p>Ha Ha.</p>

<p>Princeton is ranked 6th place in Revealed preference ranking. If a student get multiple offers, Princeton would be 6th choise. and Harvard is number one.</p>

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<p>princeton law accepted 95 percent of princeton students and denied all harvard students.</p>

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<p>Yes. This is why princeton is the best. and remianing 5% are auto-admitted to Princeton Medical School.</p>

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<p>All this talk about feeder schools and prestige at this level is nonsense. The education is largely what you make of it, and it’s also about fitting in. Students lucky enough to get into two or more of HYPSM (and yes, even CalTech) need to first thank God for being so fortunate to have such a choice, and then take as many college visits as possible. All of these are excellent schools with their unique strengths and weakness.</p>

<p>By the way, did you know that 1 out of every 1300 CalTech graduates is a Nobel Prize winner?</p>

<p>And I wish the Asian bashing by a few individuals on this board would stop. Sigh…</p>

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<p>That is what Princeton people are…</p>

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<p>jomjom, you can stop now. you’ve lost all credibility. please do something more productive with your time.</p>

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<p>Yeah, whatever chief. I got into Harvard and chose Princeton. You could say Princeton was my first “choise.” Also, let me put this in a form of English you may understand: you… no… go… princeton or harvard, yes? this… because… you… suck and will not be accept.</p>

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<p>Ha Ha
You are upset to find out that Princeton is 6th place, behind Harvard, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Stanford ? I understand. You made a huge mistake to choose Princeton over Harvard. Well …some people choose Boston U over Harvard and are quite happy abuot it anyways …</p>

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<p>If I got into Princeton, Harvard, and a number of other great schools next year, I would not choose Princeton sixth and Harvard first. Most likely, it would be a tie between those two - and other top colleges - for first place.</p>

<p>It ain’t as simple as a ranking list.</p>

<p>P.S. The “ain’t” was for rhetorical effect.</p>

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<p>If I get lucky to get into H and P (though P will never happen), I’d choose Princeton. I’m going into a math/physics major, and honestly, Princeton wins some, Harvard wins some. It’s about fit too. Not everything is about stupid rankings. In my mind, Princeton is <em>the</em> school, but too bad I won’t get in. Princeton has the best undergrad focus, all that I’d care about at this point in my life anyway.</p>

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<p>jomjom, for a better understanding of the Revealed Preferences ranking, please see this link:</p>

<p><a href=“http://holamun2.com/files/images/mun2-images/candy/el-show-shorts/polls-if-i-was-a-tool-id-be.jpg[/url]”>http://holamun2.com/files/images/mun2-images/candy/el-show-shorts/polls-if-i-was-a-tool-id-be.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“Princeton is ranked 6th place (sic) in Revealed (sic) preference ranking. If a student get (sic) multiple offers, Princeton would be 6th choise. (sic) and Harvard is number one.”</p>

<p>This is a misunderstanding of what the revealed preference rankings mean. The NY Times reported on this research in September 2006. The revealed preference ranking indicates what percent of students who were admitted to two colleges will choose one over the other. According to the research, a significant majority of students will indeed choose Harvard over Princeton. This does not mean that one is better than the other, only that the majority of cross-admits prefer one over the other. Yale also enrolls significantly more cross-admits than Princeton, though not to the same extent as Harvard. Stanford and MIT enroll a greater percentage of cross admits than Princeton, but only by a very small percentage. Cal Tech results were not included in the article. For all other schools reported, the overwhelming majority of students chose Princeton, by rates varying from 73% to 97%. This data, by the way, is several years old.</p>

<p>There is no question that in terms of overall cachet, among high school students and their families the order remains Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. A more interesting question is how satisfied are alumni with the experience they had and the education they received. I suspect Princeton would do very well on such a survey.</p>

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<p>No. That is different study. Here is the link.
[A</a> Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.nber.org/papers/w10803]A”>A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities | NBER)</p>

<p>Look at page 26 for ranking. Page 6 and 7 also state that Princeton practices ‘strategic admission’, rejecting many top applicants. why ? because the admission comittee know that the top best applicants will not choose Princeton.
It also states that
Such behavior of Princeton is potentially costly to the actual “quality of an admissions class”, with no clear benefit
beyond a higher reported matriculation rate.</p>

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<p>oh ok, so Virginia (ranked 20th) is definitely a much better school than Berkeley, which is 23rd. See you later Berkeley, you obviously suck because jomjom says that Wellesley, Rice, UVA, and Northwestern are waaaaay better than you. Also, Wesleyan is waaaaaaaay better than U Chicago.</p>

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<p>The Times article is based on the research done by Avery, Glickman, Hoxby and Metrick:</p>

<p>[The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)</p>

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<p>jomjom, you sound awfully bitter. Care to deconstruct a bit for us?</p>

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<p>Guys, cut JomJom some slack. I’d be angry if I got rejected from both UC Merced and Riverside as well…</p>

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<p>so who wants to be in school with 9.79% admit rate instead of 7.0% admit rate ?</p>

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<p>^ Me…</p>