Which Less Selective Schools Could Pull You Away from P'ton, if any?

<p>princeton’s my top choice, but notre dame (already in, probably honors program), dartmouth and duke (if i get in) could all pull me away…i could have one hell of a decision to make in a few weeks</p>

<p>^how could you turn down Palo Alto for Princeton! </p>

<p>I will have totally hard time to choose if accepted to pton, yale and williams. (my DREAM schools!!!)</p>

<p>Columbia maybe
Cornell if I didn’t get into Penn, Princeton, or Columbia :frowning: </p>

<p>I love Princeton. I love the campus, the food, etc. I stayed there from June til August. Lovely place</p>

<p>But seriously, I couldn’t pick between Columbia and Princeton</p>

<p>Stanford…</p>

<p>Amherst .</p>

<p>Cornell and Chicago could.</p>

<p>Reed. But it won’t :D</p>

<p>ib612, why would Regents specifically pull you away? Isn’t it just 1000 dollars of scholarship?</p>

<p>^</p>

<p>they will give you 2000 in cash regardless of your socioeconomic status… you can easily get parking if you are a regent scholar. also, they will cover up expenses that wont be covered by grants and financial aid. hmm. they also get priority registration when signing up for classes</p>

<p>University of Chicago would. I’d take it over Princeton any day. But although I’ve been accepted to U of C, I shan’t be attending (that’s one more spot for a waitlisted individual lol) because 1.) I have no merit scholarships aside from the paltry $2500 NAS, 2.) I shall probably pay full sticker price for law school, and 3.) my parents can’t afford anything >$10,000 (or rather, they’ve told me they won’t cough up the $).</p>

<p>So the school that will have pulled me away from Princeton (if I even get accepted, which I doubt more and more as THE DAY nears) will have been Macaulay Honors @ CUNY Hunter. +1 for the CUNY system, I guess. :)</p>

<p>Last August I took two of my daughters to visit Georgetown, Penn, Princeton, Yale and Harvard. The daughter who is graduating from high school this year has wanted Harvard since she entered high school. Based on what I saw, I would choose Princeton in a heartbeat over all the schools we visited.</p>

<p>My graduating daughter has already been accepted EA to Georgetown SFS. We all really liked Georgetown. It’s DC location provides a unique ingredient.</p>

<p>I grew up in Chicago. I couldn’t imagine choosing the University of Chicago over Princeton. Princeton is in a league of its own.</p>

<p>U of Chicago. Even my Princeton interviewer admitted that it has a better “education” than Princeton, but the social life is better at Princeton. I already confirmed, without even hearing from Princeton. I love Princeton, but Chicago is where I belong. The Institute of Biophysical Dynamics is what made it for me. That and being in such a cool city. </p>

<p>Maybe if I were richer and could afford an eating club or to have my own car so I could drive into NYC, it would be different, but Chicago is where it’s at.</p>

<p>@FlaPops: Different strokes for different folks, man.</p>

<p>@kitkatkatie: It’s awesome that you’re going! UChicago ftw!!! :D</p>

<p>My D would pick MIT over Princeton but she got Wait listed at MIT :frowning:
She is expecting rejection from Princeton. She will probably go to WashU (engineering) which is a great choice too.</p>

<p>@ Kitkatkatie

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<p>You dont need to belong to an eating club and, take the Train from Princeton to NYC. No car needed or wanted. just sayin.</p>

<p>bump 10 char</p>

<p>Dartmouth…</p>

<p>DUKE! I am absolultely in love with it…there’s so much more i love about the ppl and campus at duke. I know that Princeton would get me farther in life tho…</p>

<p>^ funny, because I know Duke stole some aspects of its campus from Princeton :p</p>