Choosing Harvard, Princeton or Stanford?

fallenchemist
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 13:28:08 +0000

You cannot go wrong at these or dozens of other schools for what you want. You have to realize the acceptance rate for these schools is about 5%, so it is entirely possible you won’t get into any of them. But not to worry, there are so many good schools that focus on undergraduates that are quite excellent for what you want to do. You are right that in general Harvard and Stanford are more grad student focused in many areas, although that might be less of an issue in the areas you are describing as opposed to subjects like the hard sciences that have a lot of research, Econ, even History possibly.

Just be sure to look at schools you are far more likely to get into that have good programs in what you want to explore and are undergrad oriented, which almost automatically means not too big. You should be able to find a great many to choose from that meet this criteria.