<p>As I am preparing to select my final college for early action, I am stuck between Yale and Princeton. I am interested in calculus/physics but can see myself realistically pursuing a career in business. Seeing that Princeton does not have a business school, will I be put at a disadvantage (I heard there is also grade deflation there)? However, Princeton is the number one university and I doubt it got there by putting students at disadvantages... I really would appreciate information regarding both colleges because I do not have the opportunity to visit either. Anything helps!! Thank you.</p>
<p>calculus is not a major. P is strong in physics and math. Yale more known for humanities and social sciences.</p>
<p>Neither of these schools offers an undergraduate business major. Have you considered what you can afford and how you will pay for school?</p>
<p>My parents are not concerned with the tuitions but would appreciate getting the best deal, haha.</p>
<p>The only one of the considerations you have mentioned that should enter into your decision is your interest in calculus/physics. For that, I would give (slight) preference to Princeton. The other things (grade deflation, no business school) really shouldn’t matter.</p>
<p>What is your GPA and SAT scores?
Have you chosen a safety school?</p>
<p>Apply to both.</p>
<p>^^ He mentioned he is doing SCEA.</p>
<p>Princeton being the #1 school on the UNSWR doesn’t mean anything. It routinely rotates between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton that the difference if miniscule if detectable at all. </p>
<p>With respect, I believe you may have missed THE critical determinant in your impending, crucial EA decision. To begin, with zero doubt, both Yale and Princeton obviously are superb undergraduate schools, both are among the very finest in the world, both will provide VERY similar immediate and lifelong advantages, and both have warranted, outstanding reputations in essentially every possible arena.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, you haven’t said a single word concerning with which university, community, culture, faculty, student body, and so forth YOU appear to have the best “fit.” If this, as I suspect, is because you haven’t spent much time on the two campuses – going to classes, asking lots of questions of undergraduates, living in a dorm room, hanging out in the library and the union, meeting faculty members and administrators, and a hundred other “should observe first-hand things” – then DO SO IMMEDIATELY.</p>
<p>Look, @CocoMojo13, academically, intellectually, professionally, and for your long future life, you simply cannot go wrong with either Yale or Princeton. BUT, you might significantly prefer one’s “culture” to the other’s. IMHO, that should be THE vital decision metric in your EA selection.</p>
<p>Not to trivialize this important matter, but would you purchase a Lexis 400 series or a BMW 5 series – both similar, excellent, world-class sedans – with driving either? I didn’t think so.</p>
<p>Honestly, the culture at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale isn’t really all that different, either. Personally, I prefer Yale’s residential college system to Princeton’s system (don’t really like the eating clubs–but Greek life has grown at Yale, reducing that difference).</p>
<p>OP is interested in math/physics. I think that suggests Princeton, if everything else is more or less equal.</p>