#Yale [REA] or Princeton for Humanities?

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ancient phoenix
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Schools: Princeton and Yale
Intended major: English? Anthropology? Prob something in the humanities but anything could happen.
Similarities: cost, weather, architecture... honestly, I almost think all the most important things are similar between the two. I feel like I'm splitting hairs!
Costs: My parents have made it clear that I should not let the price affect my decision!

Yale

Pros:

  • pre-admitted into Directed Studies, which is something I think I'd really enjoy
  • admitted REA and am just so much more well-informed about Yale. I know so much already and it makes my head hurt to even consider trying to learn all the same things about Pton in under a month
  • I have a friend who attends Yale who has been really supportive and gave me a super long tour of the library, his resco, everything.
  • an airport relatively close to me carries a direct flight to New Haven
  • blue's a nice color! and I met Handsome Dan!
  • you can take classes at the graduate schools
    Cons:
  • the "graduate focus" thing. But my friend at Yale insists that's not true lol
  • no minors, only double majors/certificates

Princeton

Pros:

  • two of my childhood best friends were also admitted, and they'll probably go. It would be amazing to go to school with them.
  • the "undergraduate focus" thing.
  • safer campus?
  • there's def more but idk anything about princeton so idek 💀 that's part of the problem
    School 2 Cons:
  • orange is ugly
  • I just. I just don't know anything about Princeton. The pros and cons of it are so superficial and this imbalance is my biggest problem.

Tiebreaking considerations

  • literally any info on Princeton that could be useful, I want to hear. I feel so overwhelmed!

I will go to BDD and Preview but want to start seriously thinking about both schools before then to give myself time.

rough wind
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flip a coin

inland sail
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why the helly would you go pton

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you have to write mandatory jr and sr theses there btw

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and yale humanities is just better

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pton culture is lowkey also pretty elitist

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i also wont pretend that either location is amazing but think about having to live in new jersey for the next 4 years

ancient phoenix
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wow ur a princeton opp HAHA

ancient phoenix
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idk I think I want to love Princeton

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I want a reason to want to go there

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🥹

inland sail
ancient phoenix
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idk why

inland sail
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i think

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that it might be a sign you have some doubts about yale

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why did you apply pton after rea

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other than aura farming apparently

ancient phoenix
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money

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with pton I got Yale to lower its cost by $30k💀

ancient phoenix
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part of me implicitly believes Princeton is more prestigious

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i think

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therefore i want to go there

rough wind
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I say go to Yale

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ancient phoenix
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yep🤩

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ancient phoenix
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also my friends are going there

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🥹

inland sail
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i live in new england and i grew up. here among harvard grads and mit students and no one thinks princeton is more prestigious here

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they’re both hypsm

inland sail
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chances r you wont stay frinds anyway

ancient phoenix
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hey😔

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we’ve been friends since we were 6

inland sail
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oh

ancient phoenix
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I mainly ig

inland sail
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then you’ll have a strong bomd u dont need to maintain w college

ancient phoenix
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Wanted to know pros of Princeton

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so that I could fairly judge

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bc rn it’s like whoa ik sm abt Yale

inland sail
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ok fair

ancient phoenix
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but idk anything abt Princeton

inland sail
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i lowkey dont know anyone here who goes to pton

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they all think they’re better than us

ancient phoenix
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And I feel like I can’t eliminate Princeton without at least giving it due consideration

inland sail
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but you could ask in the pton thrrad #1050620654485000213

ancient phoenix
ancient phoenix
graceful magnet
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Honestly, you're visiting both. That's more valuable than anything you'll get here

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There's no wrong choice

fierce tapir
mental compass
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or are they about the same

tight skiff
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to be honest i dont see how princeton culture is elitist in any way that yales isnt

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i guess im a biased source though but i truthfully have not encountered any elitism thus far

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i wish i could help more but i dont know a lot about humanities at yale however i will say one thing i like about princeton is how involved they are in helping you create research opportunities and produce genuinely meaningful scholarship from the get-go

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im in the midst of it right now and its hard in the moment but im honestly glad im able to get these opportunities with immediate guidance and feedback through freshman writing seminar, theres also an optional sophomore research seminar and then a junior paper and senior thesis

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and even though its a lot of work i do think its a net positive force in having students be productive in a field theyre interested in, which maybe goes along with the undergraduate focus thing in the sense that it's not an opportunity many people can have

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but maybe yale has this too idk

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also perhaps a con is that as of right now its definitely harder to earn an A-range grade at Princeton than Yale based off the statistics of the last academic year for both schools and if you want to go to a highy selective grad school that might be something to consider

swift vine
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Princeton is in the middle of nowhere in NJ plus it's even more full of nepo babies than Yale is. I'd go with Yale were I you.