Help me...Princeton vs. Yale vs. MIT

Lanzabelle
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:02:02 +0000

Go to Yale. New Haven isn’t bad, the buildings are nicer than Princeton’s, and Princeton is too rural to me (it takes longer to get places, which I really hate). The academics are awesome at all three of these schools, but you have smaller classes at Yale, you have the residential college system, more resources, cooler sweaters, more school spirit … I could go on.

Yale does enjoy a better name than Princeton or MIT, but the difference is miniscule among employers.

Also, the general views of Princeton as snobby (mostly due to the Eating Clubs/bickering) and MIT as geeky hold true to a certain extent (especially the latter notion).

Of course, what you really should do is visit the schools and talk to the students and go to the one that you like the most.

PS: I think you’re right about not studying business in college. Most financial institutions have training programs anyway. You’re better off taking some econ and some math.