<p>Thank you Smacking. I really appreciate your information and willingness to help.</p>
<p>Smacking, can you provide some supporting data.</p>
<p>I’m unsure of the medical programs in the two great colleges, but I have a friend who attended both and simply loved Princeton. She preferred the community setting there as well, but I guess it all depends on the person.</p>
<p>Yale’s FA offer is the best.</p>
<p>Again, I have to say threads like this belie the idea that smart people talk about smart things. The idea that any difference in med admissions between, of all places, Yale and Princeton, is material is like something out of Monty Python.</p>
<p>Accepted to both. Please list pros and cons of these colleges. Visited Princeton April 15 - 17 and currently visiting Yale; I like both campuses equally. Very confused. Help please.</p>
<p>Are you aware of the occasional grade deflation at Princeton? As a pre-med, you may want to factor that into your decision.</p>
<p>I appear rather repetitive now that these threads have been merged. :)</p>
<p>Im a prospective student currently at bulldog days and going to princeton preview tomorrow, so I’m reasonably unbiased.</p>
<p>I’ve heard (from a couple Columbia grads, actually) that Princeton is a tough place to do pre-med because it doesnt offer the same opportunities a college with a graduate medical school might offer.</p>
<p>I’m personally not looking at pre-med, but if I were the lack of graduate school might scare me from princeton. But who knows? I would say its far more important (when your choices are yale and princeton) to go to the more enjoyable one.</p>
<p>Yale is stronger for Pre-Med than Princeton based on actual research I’ve done in terms of placement. Duke and Brown are actually basically as good as Princeton for pre-med but Yale is a step above (almost as good as Harvard). Yale still offers better post-graduate opportunities (in basically all areas outside of physical sciences/engineering) than Princeton despite US News ■■■■■■■■ for Princeton for all these years.</p>
<p>I can only hope that when you are older and somewhat more mature that you’ll learn that some differences are meaningless. You’ll be a better doctor by far if you figure out that you need to focus on the important things and not on junk. </p>
<p>Yale and Princeton are vastly different schools in terms of feel, social life and location. They are equivalent academically. There may be cost issues for one versus the other, but one can find meaningless differences between any two things. Making molehills into mountains is not how you diagnose illness.</p>
<p>May not be what you want to hear, but I’d focus on the nature of the schools themselves instead of their putative success in graduate/professional-school placement. In my experience, Princeton is an easier place to live, and I mean the university as well as the town. But some people vehemently disagree and point out that I’m the sort of WASP stereotype one would traditionally associate with Princeton. Old notions die hard: the truth is that both colleges are far more diverse than ever before. But they do have different feels to them, and that’s a personal matter. Prime among these differences is the decidedly urban nature of Yale’s surroundings. Quite unlike Princeton. But it can just as easily be said that that urbanity (among other things) confers a certain electricity to the campus that Princeton may be missing. </p>
<p>To the OP: your son is indeed tremendously fortunate and EITHER choice is excellent. I’m sure he’ll do well–and be happy–at either place and I wouldn’t worry the issue to death. Finally, I also think that Princeton’s “grade deflation” is vastly overestimated. It’s hardly easy to get A’s at Yale. It’s hardly even easier.</p>
<p>Well…first, the thread is in the Yale section of the forum, so do not consider every single opinion as objective. Not very many people have attended both for pre-med, so a comparison will be tough…I would choose Yale. I myself am under the impression that Princeton is better than Yale at pure sciences, mathematics, etc., whereas Yale is better than Princeton at the social sciences and the humanities. Therefore, I would go for Yale. </p>
<p>However, I would recommend that you talk to the high school counselor or if you know any alumni of these universities. Probably a second visit to both campuses will help you out in making the decision. Just gather as much information as possible and decide then. Neither one will be a mistake or a wrong choice since both of them are top-notch schools. One detail that may be good to consider is the location and the atmosphere of the schools. If your son prefers one of the two for that reason, probably he should go there as he is going to be at this place for at least 3-4 years.:)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Yale! Princeton doesn’t have the resources or opportunities that Yale can offer to its Pre-Meds.</p>
<p>[Today’s</a> Yale Daily News - Premed advising gets a check-up](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/04/23/premed-advising-gets-check-/]Today’s”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/04/23/premed-advising-gets-check-/)</p>
<p>Bump. Where did you end up choosing, @goodluck1???</p>
<p>The OP has not posted since 2010.</p>
<p>If you check their posting history you will find this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/929847-i-turned-down-_________-yale.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/929847-i-turned-down-_________-yale.html</a></p>
<p>Closing old thread.</p>