<p>Dartmouth, Duke, Williams. That’s it.</p>
<p>oh, and Princeton is NOT conservative.</p>
<p>Uchicago, Columbia? You’ve got to be kidding.</p>
<p>viewpoint good point. What does “like Princeton” mean? I agree with slipper1234’s list and would add Stanford. They just aren’t all that much easier:).</p>
<p>Suburban, not very edgy, very warm student population, great school spirit, visible social organization, and professors who focus on and are available to students. That’s what I would say “like Princeton” means. And of course, if it IS Princeton, then absolutely top level can’t-get-any-better-than academics, supported by the faculty, the administration, and the other students.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is the Princeton “alike” school easier to get into. Forget the other Ivy’s they stand alone. Wake Forest too. The question was about easier to get into like Princeton. Stanford might be easier to get into but its clearly a West Coast school and I wouldnt say similar to the feel of Princeton. Id suggest stay on the East Coast.</p>
<p>katsurati have you been to both Stanford and Princeton? I attended Princeton, have a daughter there, and live about 1 mile from Stanford, where my father was a professor for over 30 years. </p>
<p>I think they feel similar, if you can get past the difference between green lawns and gray stone buildings vs. dryscaping and yellow stone buildings.</p>
<p>Isn’t Vanderbilt WAY more conservative than Princeton?</p>
<p>i’m tired of the arguments that Princeton is “conservative”, and I’m glad to see others on this thread who agree. regardless of how the school itself has changed over the past few decades (THE best financial aid system among the Ivies), it never seems to be able to drop the “elitist”, “preppy” stereotype that it no longer deserves. </p>
<p>in terms of the question being asked, i think it’s pretty worthless, to be honest. answering the question requires a gross generalization, which takes out perhaps the most distinctive aspects of whatever school, of both Princeton and its “comparable” schools. I could point to some aspect of Princeton that makes it somehow “like” pretty much every school in the country, but could also argue, using different yet still indisputable criterion, that Princeton is “unlike” pretty much any school in the country.</p>
<p>Stanford might be easier to get into but its clearly a West Coast school.</p>
<p>Not really, Stanford is much harder to get into and when students have the choice between the two Stanford wins for cross admits.</p>
<p>One could hardly say that either school is more difficult to get into, though Princeton does manage to enroll a class with noticably higher SAT scores (I will not read any further into that statistic, however). As for the matter of cross-admits, Princeton and Stanford split their group cross-admits almost exactly in half, contrary to what you seem to imply.</p>
<p>Stanford is known and has openly stated its decision to weight SATs less, accepting students with more ECs and personal qualities over people with high scores.</p>
<p>So I don’t think SAT scores offer a clear view of how competitive it is.</p>
<p>At the same time, I believe cross-admits are split fairly evenly.</p>
<p>I acknowledge that; I brought up that statistic simply in order to negate objectively the incorrect claim that Stanford is “much harder to get into.” I believe that they are equally difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Duke perhaps? It has a higher admit rate than Stanford and Princeton.</p>
<p>The Revealed Preference study showed that when given the choice between Stanford and any other school Stanford wins (with the exception of Harvard and Yale). Its yield has been consistently higher despite Princeton’s prior use of ED to fill up the class.</p>
<p>The Revealed Preference study showed that Stanford won 52% of cross-admits with Princeton in 1999, a difference that is statistically insignificant given the fluctuations in this area that often occur. As you know, a yield rate by itself gives little information. See: [The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html]The”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)</p>