<p>what are the parties like? do people take the train to NYC, or is social life limited to eating clubs?</p>
<p>Current students, I too am very curious. I graduated from Princeton over 25 years ago when the ratio of males to females was still 5:1. Eating clubs were single sex, some of them. School was still very white and very privileged. But it was the best intellectual experience of my life. And I still have friends from those days.</p>
<p>Please, please, please chime in. What is it like politically? Between young men and young women? Where do people hang out? Do they always drink? Answers highly appreciated by a fellow Tiger. If you don't already know, when a fellow Tiger asks, you do your best to help out:)</p>
<p>Alumother, having gone to another Ivy in the same era you were at Princeton, I know whereof you speak; we had the same ratio of men to women. It was kinda horrible. </p>
<p>Things have changed so much. My d absolutely loves the scene at Princeton. She has a great group of girlfriends. They go to the theater, they enjoy dancing and talking at the Street, they go to games, they go out to dinner, they watch videos in their rooms together, they talk for hours. As for guys, she has gone on dates and to formals, she studies with them, and she has great guy friends. As a not-wild sort of kid who likes the occasional glass of wine but has no interest in a drinking scene, she was a bit worried about the Princeton legends people cite on these boards, but she is very happy. Princeton students are very friendly and outgoing, and a kid who responds in kind and who participates in extracurriculars is going to have a fun and sane social life. </p>
<p>Oh, and she is a political liberal who finds many, many kindred spirits there. Paul Krugman alone has his groupies on campus, and then there are literally thousands of students involved in all sorts of political and community service organizations. </p>
<p>I don't know whether you saw this column, but it offers a lyrical perspective from an alumna-turned-dean on how Princeton has changed over the years: <a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/03/11/opinion/12341.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/03/11/opinion/12341.shtml</a></p>
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when my sons and I marched with my father's class of 1953 at the head of the P-rade at his 50th reunion. We began in front of Nassau Hall and walked through the ranks of all white and white-haired men for a good while. Then we turned a corner somewhere near Whig-Clio and began to see a sprinkling of women on the sidelines. Rounding another turn, now walking toward Edwards, we passed the magic divide between the wrinkling, harried and increasingly out-of-shape alums who have had children and the still sleek, chic and together younger alums who are enjoying a double income and no kids! But the most important change was the difference in the visible physical diversity of the class as we walked toward the graduating class of 2003 a rainbow of young men and women of different races, ethnic backgrounds, countries and creeds.
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Thank you so much for this link. I was in this P-Rade. It was my 25th. I cried as I rounded that final curve to see all those kids, rainbow flags, skin colors etc.</p>
<p>I am glad to hear it wasn't just an accident of the day.</p>
<p>So then what about what wasn't immediately visible? What about dating? Boyfriends? Romance? Sex, casual or otherwise?</p>
<p>:D that's nice to know!</p>
<p>Aparent5, thanks for sharing that! Did you daughter go to OA or CA?</p>
<p>Has anyone been able to confirm the rate of marriage among Princetonians? Is it really among the highest in the nation?</p>
<p>I believe that heard somewhere that it was 70%.</p>
<p>I saw that too. It is an incredible number. But where did it come from?</p>
<p>It was in this thread:</p>
<p>I also found it interresting that 61% of alumni give money. It just shows the quality of life that must be at Princeton:)</p>
<p>Princeton's distance from other universities when it comes to alumni giving is amazing and a testament to spirit ant the love of school that is developed there.</p>
<p>Alumni Giving Rate </p>
<p>The top ten schools (according to US News) in average alumni giving rate:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Princeton (61%)</p></li>
<li><p>Notre Dame (48%)</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard (48%)</p></li>
<li><p>Darthmouth (47%)</p></li>
<li><p>Duke (46%)</p></li>
<li><p>Yale (45%)</p></li>
<li><p>Lehigh (40%)</p></li>
<li><p>UPenn (39%)</p></li>
<li><p>Brown (38%)</p></li>
<li><p>WashU STL (37%)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks for the info Pcessly! Are you a fello applicant?</p>
<p>I prefer to keep my background quiet (keeps the wolves away), but I will say that the more I research Princeton, the more I favor it. It is rare to come accross something negative. Instead, I keep finding all this great, positive stuff.</p>
<p>That list of who gives just says so much.</p>
<p>I want to get married at Princeton, under an arch =)</p>
<p>that's cute ;)</p>
<p>sopcial scene, theres the eating clubs, a dorm party tonight, the ivy in ( a bar) across the street.</p>
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<p>The waiting list for the university chapel is several years long. Might want to put your name down straight away and use the time to find your spouse ;)</p>
<p>I've already found my spouse-to-be ;)</p>
<p>I don't want get married in a chapel though, I literally want to get married under the arch! lol and have the nassoons/tigertones sing our song...</p>
<p>ha i'm such a hopeless romantic :p</p>
<p>Awww.... how sweet... Though if you get married under an arch near my room and you start making noises early on a Sunday morning (i.e. before 1pm) I will not hesitate to throw things at you from above... (I am a very grouchy person in the morning). </p>
<p>Just warning you in advance.</p>