#Stanford, Yale, or Princeton!!

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dire dagger
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Stanford, Yale, or Princeton
Intended major: Political Science
Intended EC: Theater and LGBT groups!
Age upon freshman year: 21

Please help me choose🙏🏼🙏🏼

Stanford
Pros:

  • Weather!! SUNNY. ALL THE TIME.
  • Strong in every department
  • Silicon Valley/san fran/San Jose pretty close
  • Ranked highest globally
  • Flexible curriculum for majors/minors
  • Probably the school with the most satisfied students!!
  • Very strong in the humanities even if more known for sciences.
  • Laid back- extremely collaborative. Less rich
  • Huge and spacious campus. Feels like one, big, never-ending summer camp.

Stanford Cons:

  • Quarter system is stressful
  • Fuzzy/techie divide (the STEM vs humanities cultural split)
  • No four seasons
  • Huge bubble with nothing too close nearby
  • Housing is mid
  • Student life is great but perhaps a bit more clique-y than the others
  • Campus is physically very large and you need to ride a bike everywhere
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Yale
Pros:

  • Residential colleges !!!
  • Strong community, collaborative and friendly - Urban location offers plenty of nearby shops, restaurants, theaters, etc.
  • 2hr to NYC/Boston
  • Strong in humanities/social sciences
  • The “gay” Ivy
  • Strong in theater (sooo many options!)
  • Club Culture is HUGE
  • Political hub
  • Student life is so diverse (parties for everything!)
  • Real/affordable options to live off-campus
  • Four seasons
  • East coast is nearby friends/family friend’s

Cons:

  • New haven isn’t too safe- sketch (but also as bad as made out to be tbh)
  • Cold weather
  • Clubs can be competitive
  • People are always super busy and seem working
  • Can be elitist + is very white and rich
  • No minors !! (And not a great variety in concentrations)
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Princeton
Pros:

  • Really nice town and very safe
  • Mostly gated and stunning campus!! WOW (probably feels the most like a typical college)
  • Strongest alumni network and reunions!!
  • Junior and senior theses sound awesome
  • Huge focus on undergrads —— very good teaching !
  • Political hub!!!
  • East coast is nearby friends/family friends
  • Proximity to Nyc/Philadelphia

Cons:

  • Eating clubs. Not a fan.
  • Academic rigor is insane /preppy
  • Princeton town in itself kinda boring
  • Also very elitist and white/rich !!
  • Four seasons
  • Weather (though better than Yale)
  • Grade deflation remnants (or just no grade inflation)
  • Clubs can be competitive
  • Least amount of people around my age
vestal lantern
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you’d prob fit in the best at yale tbh

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maybe bit biased coming out of BDD but the vibe and people are amazing

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strong in pol sci too not to mention to great theater groups

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and as for your reservations about yale

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they comparatively have a lot more time than princeton and stanford students imo

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princeton is academically quite rigorous and stanford floating duck syndrom is very real

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and in the big picture yale pton stanford are all very much fairly rich and white especially because all consider legacy admissions

cobalt quail
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Sounds like you’ll vibe amazing with yale

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😭

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So jelly but congratz

dire dagger
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Thank youuuuuuu

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I’m truly leaning my toward Yale

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But it’s so hard to give up the other two

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Especially Stanford !! Saying no to Stanford sounds CRAZY

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Even ppl who got into Harvard many times choose Stanford. Apparently everyone says it’s the “future” whatever that means

cobalt quail
dire dagger
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Well hoping to anyway

cobalt quail
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I think harvard yale are the best for that direction

dire dagger
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Also like majors can change? Probably shouldn’t be my top consideration

cobalt quail
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Good point

dire dagger
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I didn’t even get into Harvard LOL

cobalt quail
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Ya exactly So yale it is

dire dagger
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Hahaha💓

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Hey you still have the whole process ahead of you! So I wish you the best

cobalt quail
dire dagger
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Yale💓

distant root
dire dagger
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Omg yassssssss