Dartmouth vs. Princeton vs. Columbia?

helpmechoose
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:33:31 +0000

HELP! I really love different things about each of the schools. I love Dartmouth’s community/location, I love Princeton’s architecture (hogwarts!), and I love Columbia’s connections in terms of internships in NYC.

I’m not the type of person to even look at rankings so don’t bring that sort of garbage up. These are all amazing schools but I need advice on which one would suit me best:

I’m looking for a super traditional college experience. One that I will tell people about School X and be like “Ohhh hahahaha…crazy times…” and things of that nature. My parents didn’t go to college so the whole entire “Animal House” college experience has been missing in our family.

All three of these schools are amazing academic powerhouses and I can’t even begin to compare them, which is why I think the “Quality of Life” rating is more important to me. If any current students/others could at least tell me about the quality of life in each of these schools, I’d be very grateful!