Princeton vs. Stanford

<p>But, let’s be clear, Stanford’s weather is WAY better than Princeton’s. The winter is warmer, the summer drier and glorious. There is nothing more awful than a summer in Princeton, except a summer in Alabama or Texas or maybe. And the winters at Princeton go on longer than one might want. Better than Massachusetts, certainly, but not as good as CA.</p>

<p>So weather is the key variable that differentiates these schools?</p>

<p>Weather, East Coast vs. West Coast, and size of campus, to me, dominate all else. Unless you are interested in a specific department known to be MUCH better at one place than the other. They are both great universities which offer their students great opportunities.</p>

<p>The hope behind my question was to perhaps pull the thread away from a debate that had become seemingly trivial (which school has more vegetation or rain in August?) and more than a little partisan. The substantive tradeoffs between the two schools are important to our family this spring.</p>

<p>I do know that a difference is that Princeton uses it own FA algorithm for calculating need; that may create a distinctly different outcome than Stanford’s calculation. While this is not a factor to the OP, it would be for many.</p>

<p>japanoko, you really ought to tone down your rhetoric. A lot. Words like “sleazy” and “slimy”, bold-faced accusations of lying . . . and about what? Whether it ever rains in Palo Alto during the summer? Whether Stanford could be described as “green”?</p>

<p>Come on! Your language is completely disproportionate to the topic as a whole, and completely disproportionate to any legitimate ground of disagreement. Especially given the fact that Stanford and Princeton are extraordinarily similar but for the East/West Coast differences, which are kind of obvious.</p>

<p>Both schools are great. In my opinion, between these two schools, you should just do independent research and try to see which one you are more excited about. I was in the same predicament, so I know (likely from one school, and EA from the other). In this case, because you REALLY can’t go wrong with either choice, listening to others’ opinions will not help you decide.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>Japanoko, are you the poster formerly known as onecircuit, also formerly known as JohnAdams12 prior to that? Your writing style seems very familiar.</p>

<p>Stanford by a mile…</p>

<p>Japanoko is definitely from Princeton admissions…(H/she was probably behind the whole cracking into Yale fiasco, a few years back)</p>

<p>^^You know PG, I was thinking the exact same thing. I was so relieved when Johnadams12 left this forum and now it appears he’s back.</p>

<p>Not sure if he’s just a way over the top alum or simply someone who is posing as one! Either way, it’s not pretty.</p>

<p>Definitely could be onecircuit (I didn’t know onecircuit was JohnAdams12!)–didn’t even think about it (if I had, I wouldn’t’ve bothered with him)</p>

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<p>yes, fully agree on this</p>

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<p>JHS, I guess you must have missed the strong personal attacks and insults made by phanta against people that were correcting his blatant false and misleading comments, otherwise I would imagine that you would have made the same kind of post towards phanta eh?</p>

<p>No, japanoko. I read the whole thread and saw nothing that was “blatant false and misleading”, and no strong personal attacks and insults, other than from you. </p>

<p>I know you seem to love Princeton, and want to present it in a good light. You might start by acting like someone who actually went there (or someone who went there and actually learned something). If I were judging Princeton by your example here, I would have a terrible impression – and based on the dozens of Princeton alumni I know in real life, that impression could not be farther from the truth. You make Princeton look far worse by the way you defend it than anything suggested by the posts you are responding to. </p>

<p>I would be happy to say that, for my own taste, and as far as pure visual beauty is concerned, Princeton is the most beautiful campus in the country, and I am ambivalent about the Stanford campus, which borrows a good deal of its aesthetics from golf courses. But how each of them looks is not terribly important to how valuable it is as a university, and no one should pick either over the other based on its looks. This is really a monumentally stupid thread.</p>

<p>I happen to agree with JHS wrt the aesthetics – I, too, would be more than happy to give Princeton the spot of prettiest campus in the country, and don’t personally care for the Stanford aesthetic. </p>

<p>But japonoko/onecircuit/johnadams, if you want to portray Princeton in a good light, one thing you might want to learn about is graciousness and noblesse oblige. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s far classier to say “These are two wonderful schools; my personal preferences run towards P for these reasons, but you can’t go wrong either way” than it is to engage in silly debate over whether some other college that’s just as fine is “inferior.” See, here’s the thing. They’re both excellent schools. There’s no need to downgrade the other. It doesn’t reflect well on you, or on the many fine Princeton students / alumni I know and / or run into when I visit Princeton (which I do frequently, as I have business in that area).</p>

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<p>JHS, it is not just one thread. If you are going to attack someone on what they have posted, then you should take the time to review why they posted it. The fact is that phanta has made plenty of personal attacks and posted a significant amount of blatant false and misleading statements - yet I find no comments from you about phanta’s false statements and personal attacks - why is that? The fact is that most of my posted messages towards phanta has been to correct his stream of false and misleading statements and point out his personal attacks.</p>

<p>Really? Give it a rest.</p>

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<p>Pizzagirl, so I guessed you missed the part where that I said that I find Stanford to be among the prettiest campuses around. And I guess you also missed the part where most of my posted messages to phanta regarding Princeton v. Stanford campuses were geared toward correcting his false and misleading statements and defending myself from his personal attacks.</p>

<p>My take: Stanford has everything Princeton does, but with better weather. :D</p>

<p>And japanoko, please just stop posting. No one will take your Stanford-bashing seriously.</p>

<p>Why is it so important to you to prove that Princeton is better than Stanford? Isn’t the correct answer: They are both fine schools – some will prefer X aspect of Stanford, and others will prefer Y aspect of Princeton? Why are you so upset at the mere thought that someone might not anoint Princeton King of All That is Holy? Good lord, it’s only a school. Really. You didn’t invent it.</p>

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<p>Pizzagirl, huh?</p>

<p>where are you coming from with this?</p>

<p>show me where I am saying that Princeton is better than Stanford overall and on an academic basis by talking negative about Stanford.</p>

<p>you can’t because I haven’t said that</p>

<p>In fact, I strongly believe that Stanford is close to being the best university out there, even for undergraduate school.</p>

<p>If you took the time to read instead of putting all your efforts on attacking people, you would realize that my comments about Stanford were to correct the false and misleading statments being made about both campuses of Stanford and Princeton. In fact, I specifically have stated that Stanford has a beautiful campus…</p>

<p>Pizzagirl, this is not the first time that you have done this. You follow certain people around the CC message boards - then go in with an attack, out of no where, without having read what the comments were all about since your only motive is to attack the individual and put him/her in bad light…</p>