| These are the two schools I am most familiar with. Actually, they are quite similar in many ways. They differ in that:
One is larger, one smaller.
One is in California, in Silicon Valley, one is on the East Coast, near NYC.
One has serious sports, one has Ivy League sports.
Academic and cultural issues differentiating the two, as I see it, can all be traced back to these three factors.
Stanford has parties. Princeton has parties. Stanford has good tech, Princeton has good tech. Stanford is a world-class university, Princeton is a world-class university. Stanford is in an affluent suburb, Princeton is in an affluent suburb.
So do you want big or smaller? Do you want East or West Coast? Do you want to go to Wall Street or Silicon Valley. If you want to stay in academia, even that last question doesn't matter.... |