Harvard vs Yale vs Princeton for Econ/CS/Applied Math

BKSquared
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:44:10 +0000

Academically, angels dancing on a head of a pin, especially as an entering freshmen among almost all your schools. If we are talking about a speculative future career, there really is not a difference in terms of opportunity/access if you are proactive. Son graduated from Y and is at a BB IB, has good friends in quant, PE, consulting, FANG, and startups as well as basic main street jobs. Plenty of med school, grad school, law school friends.

Your decision should be based on where you feel the most comfortable in terms of weather, urban, suburban, rural, big school, small school, proximity to home and the “vibes” you have gotten on your visits.

Having many friends who went to Harvard, New Haven vs Cambridge/Boston generates a lot of the pluses and minuses. Boston is a great city. Lot’s of things to do and lots of other colleges and young people to mix with. New Haven, not so great, but because of that, social and weekend life is more Yale centric. Some people like the former, others the latter.