<p>I have heard that science at yale is not as good as it is at princeton, i also heard that the student, teacher ratio at yale is higher and there is less accsess to proffesors. </p>
<p>can anyone who is at yale comment on this?</p>
<p>My D just visited Yale for Bulldog Days and attended 5 science classes ranging in size from approximately 60 (2nd semester organic chemistry) to 6 (a physics seminar). The teachers were ALL full professors, as she put it "so psyched about what they teach I loved being there even if I didn't understand it all", and spent a great deal of time talking with individual students. You will get an excellent science education at either Yale or Princeton. These types of comparisons are not helpful. You need to sort out what is going on the specifically in the field you wish you to studay and not rely on other people's responses to questions like this which generalize across all majors.</p>
<p>thanks i guess i was just wondering about the proffesors</p>
<p>as a science major at yale, i've found that there's GREAT access to professors. they all hold regular office hours & it's actually pretty fun to just go talk to them about all sorts of random stuff, even if it's not course material. all of the ones i've had are willing to schedule other times to meet if you can't make their office hours, too...</p>
<p>and yeah, the intro classes can be sort of large (like my genchem class was about 120, but I still got to know the prof reasonably well), but once you get to higher-level classes, the classes get really small (by the end of the year last year, my physics class was only about 20 people, and next year i'll be taking graduate-level chem classes that are regularly fewer than 10 people).</p>
<p>but yeah, at the undergraduate level, there's really not much difference between these schools. worry about that for grad school... as an undergraduate, i've found yale is great for science :-)</p>
<p>Yale is famed for its humanities program, not very well known for its science tho. </p>
<p>Yale reminds all us of liberalism, law, humanities, artsy (great music program), academics, harvard-yale rivalry ( like oxford-cambridge, tokyo-waseda)</p>
<p>You have been misled. Yale is actually one of the top schools in the country for science. MIT, Yale and Caltech have more scientific research per student than any other schools. </p>
<p>Princeton only receives $115 million per year in federal scientific research funding, while Yale receives over $415 million.</p>
<p>In the research impact of its science departments, the Institute for Scientific Information / Sciencewatch ranks Yale third in the country after Caltech and Harvard. Princeton does not fall within the top ten. <a href="http://www.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct2002/sw_sept-oct2002_page1.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct2002/sw_sept-oct2002_page1.htm</a></p>
<p>posterX - ummm... doesn't that page place yale 5th?</p>
<p>in any case, it's really really REALLY splitting hairs between schools at this point. go to the school that captures your interest.</p>
<p>There are two rankings on the page. Yale places 3rd in one of the rankings. Also, it's worth noting that Harvard, Yale and MIT are the only schools to make the top five in each of the separate rankings.</p>
<p>thanks heaps</p>
<p>i had the same decision to make... ultimately, i think i'm going to choose yale b/c i thought the ppl were more enthusiastic than at princeton. even if princeton science is slightly better, i think the difference is alarmingly significant.</p>
<p>princeton kinda seemed depressing to me. one of the students told me they only make the campus look really nice for the orientation, but after the first quarter, they let the gardens and cleanliness of the halls go... idk if this is true, maybe he just didnt want me to got there, haha</p>
<p>I've also noticed, in my travels, that Yale students tend to be happier than students at any other college.</p>
<p>only princeton and brown, among the ivies, made princeton review's top 20 list for "happiest students" this year. only princeton and dartmouth made its list for "best quality of life." only princeton and harvard made its list for "most politically active." only princeton made its list for "most beautiful campus." while these PR rankings have serious methodological shortcomings, there is, i think, some value to be taken in a school's repeated appearance in rankings of campus life. make of it what you will.</p>
<p>And last year, Yale was rated the "best overall academic experience for undergraduates" by TPR. As you said, those rankings fluctuate from year to year.</p>
<p>As far as politically active goes, Mother Jones Magazine recently ranked Yale the #1 "activist" school in the country. Yale (and Harvard and Berkeley) have made it on to that list numerous times, while Princeton has not.</p>
<p>actually, mother jones just named princeton's filibuster as its 2005 college protest of the year. any other comebacks?</p>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mother Jones magazine today released its 12th annual roundup of college campus activism, naming the group filibuster mounted by Princeton students in response to the GOP's nuclear option threat the Protest of the Year; Nate Wright, co-founder of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), Student Activist of the Year; and the "Boot the Bell" campaign, on behalf of Florida tomato pickers, the Victory of the Year. </p>
<p>Protest of the Year: Initiated when eight students in cheap suits gathered in front of Princeton's Frist Campus Center to give dramatic readings of the campus phone book, the protest against Princeton alum Bill Frist's threat to go nuclear in the battle over judicial appointments quickly picked up steam and spread to 50 campuses in 35 states, from UCLA to Bates College. The 348-hour Princeton gabfest ended with a "fili-bus-tour" to Washington, D.C., where guest bloviators Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) joined in. </p>