Stanford or Princeton?

Thank you for admitting that current undergrad Stanford alumni are not that impressive compared to Princeton alumni.

OP was asking about undergraduate program, let’s focus on undergraduate program only.

Okay, you win. Through your infallible logic, you have proved your point. Could you kindly move on now?

@JamesVanc you literally make zero sense… either you fail to get it or you just dont want to get it…in any case it is best to move on though.

Go to Princeton since you seem to like it better.

thank you to all who gave their input. Princeton 2021 !!!

Congratulations—great decision! Thanks for letting everyone know.

Princeton is much better for undergraduate education.

@JamesVanc Since the deadline has passed, so whatever I say will not influence anyone anymore.

First of all, I am a Princeton parent too. You probably could use better examples to convince that Princeton is better for undergraduate, instead of keep mentioning the singular “rich” outlier. For example, the leading person in AI at Stanford right now is Fei Fei Li who is a Princeton undergraduate ( since we were both native of Peking, does this make me smarter?). Of course, a single sample as a proposition would not imply it as a generalization.

My son spent four hours in Stanford application. I don’t know how good his essay was, probably not better than BLM kid’s. He chose S over Y, had a 3.93 GPA (Non-CS majors), went to Google, and now at Stanford’s GSB for MBA and MS in AI (again he randomly applied, in his words.)

My daughter was similar to my son, did not get into S. I don’t know how bad her essay was, but she got in Y(likely), P, M, and others. She chose P over others. Initially she tried to major ORFE but switched to CS. She did the internship at Google but did not get the job. She will be heading to JPM this summer. Her GPA is 3.85.

My point is, if I use them as a single match-pair comparison, both schools are fine depending on what you want. But for CS major, S might be better. GPA-wise, 3.85 P ~ 3.93 S.

That is true. Stanford advertises a lot about about founders of tech start-ups (such as HP, Google). Stanford should stop mentioning about those ‘rich outliers’

lots of insecure Princeton and Yale folks on these threads. says it all