<p>Princeton FTW.</p>
<p>Princeton is the smallest of HYP, and they’re very focused on Undergrads-I found that a really good point in their favor.</p>
<p>Princeton is, well, Princeton. :)</p>
<p>Harvard>Yale>Princeton.</p>
<p>It’s like</p>
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<p>Princeton>>>>>Harvard>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Yale</p>
<p>In reality though, all three are equally strong in their academics.</p>
<p>But we all know Harvard rules. (Unless I get rejected. Then it’ll suddenly suck. 
) And there might be floods in India.</p>
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<p>In Graduate School-dom, yes. But in undergraduate education, Princeton, Harvard and Yale are equals. Princeton undergrads get a lot more attention from their school than H and Y undergrads do btw.</p>
<p>School-dom? Haha</p>
<p>Yes I believe Princeton has the highest endowment per student in the world. But I want to study Government, and for that H is the best.</p>
<p>^ Princeton has the Woodrow Wilson School which is as good as Harvard’s Government Department.</p>
<p>This debate could go on forever.</p>
<p>Lol. True that.</p>
<p>What’s funny though is COLUMBIAlove’s post saying ‘Princeton FTW’!!</p>
<p>While I am sure ColumbiaLove loves Columbia, he probably loves other schools too, and perhaps Princeton is one of them.</p>
<p>As is the case with me. While I dream about Princeton, I also dream about other schools, like Stanford.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>I dunno. I think they’re pretty equal. IMO Yale and Princeton are a bit more focused on Undergrads than Harvard. Not sure about the Gov and Intl Relations dept. in particular, but Yale’s Liberal Arts-y feel and huge focus on the performing arts really appealed to me. That and its strong academics in general, among other things 
Whatever, we all have our preferences and I suppose arguing about the best school is pretty futile.
We’re all allowed to dream P’Ton. I should stop liking Yale so much though, it’ll hurt more when I get rejected :p</p>
<p>^I knowwww. I’m mentally preparing myself for rejection. Can’t stop being hopeful though. </p>
<p>PD- Why you traitor. (I hope you realize I wasn’t very serious in my last few posts.)</p>
<p>Anyone recycling some other essay for Princeton?</p>
<p>You never know Kaira. Your stats were pretty good AND you applied EA, so you have a higher chance of getting in than me. Me being the overworked procrastinator that I am, my chance of getting in in RD is bordering on impossible.</p>
<p>SCEA pool is more competetive that RD. So there’s no advantage there. :(</p>
<p>^Yea, but their acceptance rate is higher. So if they like a lot of people, they’ll accept them all and just reject more in RD.</p>
<p>That’s because the applicant pool is smaller. And they only accept those people EA whom they would have unconditionally accepted RD anyway. Why do you think they defer such a huge protion of applicants?
Also, since the applicant pool is a lot more competetive ( because here it’s not another 'Why not" application), it is more difficult to stand out.</p>
<p>Another thing- They want to keep their RD rate high and right now it’s a meagre 7%. If they accept more people EA, then their RD rate will drop even further which would be discouraging to future applicants. They cannot afford to accept more EA and less RD. Not an option.</p>
<p>More EA as is more people in EA or a higher percentage in EA?
I’ll believe you, since you lot seem to be better read on acceptance issues than I am.
Apparently Yale’s yield rate is 67%. A bit lower than I expected.</p>
<p>Both I guess? More people would mean a higher percentage.
They cannot accept a higher percentage than they already do as that would lower their acceptance rate to a deadly figure. Sigh. I’m spelling out the reasons for my own funeral here. 
Anyway, the general consensus is that to get accepted in EA is tougher than plain old RD.</p>
<p>Ok I’m confused now. I have no idea what I meant by my question. Meh :S
Although, why would they mind having a lower acceptance rate? Sure, it might discourage a lot of future applicants, but they are gonna get 25,000+ applicants anyway because it’s Yale, and a lot of people would still send an application just to take a shot. No matter how many applicants they get, there’s only a certain number of slots they have. So if they get more applicants they end up rejecting more, hence hiking their selectivity. And if they get fewer applicants they still end up rejecting a lot of people, thus lowering their selectivity and having a great class of kids anyway. It’s a win-win situation for them, right?
I wonder if that made sense. My brain hurts.
Spelling out the reasons for your funeral, ha. Aren’t we all. Give it your best and expect the worst, that’s what I believe-and it’s pretty apt for College Admissions, I guess.</p>