<p>Where I am most people haven’t heard of Princeton or Yale. Sometimes I get so tired of the faintly underwhelmed look so I get I tell people I’m going to Cambridge 
(and hey, I could be).</p>
<p>Of course I would say Princeton wins but that is coming from a CC’er in the “know”. The truth is that they are probably equal with Harvard on top by a bit. Just think for a moment (as long as your name isn’t Byerly) there are more CC’ers who would prefer Princeton over Harvard. This would certainly not hold true in the general public. My son has a friend at the “Vard” who preferred Princeton but was rejected. Princeton has rounder edges:).</p>
<p>they call it the H-bomb for a reason. not the Y-bomb, not the P-bomb. thats pop culture for you.</p>
<p>but for those that matter (employers) princeton MUST win. clearly, with its undergraduate focus. =P</p>
<p>I’d say Yale… it’s more well known, but not as prestigous as, say, HARVARD.</p>
<p>I wish Penn had a different name… maybe it’d be more prestigous then. Oh well, #4 is perfectly cool :)</p>
<p>Agreed. I honestly think the public’s perception of Penn would skyrocket were the University of Pennsylvania to change its name. But then again, like good ol’ Mommy says, who cares what other people think? ;)</p>
<p><em>timidly raises hand</em></p>
<p>It’s just that, by name alone, University of Pennsylvania doesn’t sound any cooler than like, University of Oregon. It’s just a “university” of “state-name”. If we were to name it… ohh… Legendmax University… that would be cool.</p>
<p>Mmm…me likey! It has a certain ring to it. And it’s definitely…unique 
</p>
<p>Ohhh yea 
People would love it.</p>
<p>ohhh yeaaa
:p</p>
<p>Penn waitlisted me :(</p>
<p>But who cares…</p>
<p>Anyway I knew I wanted to apply to Princeton when I was in Grade 9…no even before I think 
And I decided to apply to Yale on…Dec 30th 2004 :p</p>
<p>But yeah…no difference in prestige I think, except that all my family and friends (not to mention ME) prefer Princeton to Yale :)</p>
<p>I care what mommy thinks too Just a teeny bit :p</p>
<p>Yale also has good undergraduate focus from what I hear.</p>
<p>I don’t think any school has undergraduate focus questions except for maybe Columbia</p>
<p>Any school with a developed and renowned grad program is bound to give less attention to undergrads. It’s just IMPOSSIBLE for princeton not be undergrad focused, since the majority of the students are undergrad ones.</p>
<p>anyone ever have the tiny thought that maybe employers would prefer to take people from a place where undergrads <em>aren’t</em> ‘babied’ so much?</p>
<p>[don’t worry, i’m all for pton…(or yale :S), but it’s a bit of a concern]</p>
<p>Seeing as how 70% of Princeton grads work right after graduating, I don’t think it’s a huge problem for pton alums to find jobs…especially since the alumni network is so strong. </p>
<p>I don’t think it’s babying to let undergrads have the attention of professors…we are paying 40k+ a year, I think we deserve not to be taught by TAs.</p>
<p>i love that</p>
<p>despite certain advantages that yale enjoys, namely a world-renowned law school and a “1-2” association with harvard in popular discourse (“harvard and yale,” “harvard or yale”), i think the two schools are about equally prestigious in most people’s minds. i think that princeton has acquired this level of prestige without any business, law, or medical school, though, is particularly impressive.</p>
<p>Don’t know about the US, but internationally, and especially here in Europe it is like this: Harvard>Yale>Princeton.</p>
<p>I’ll tell you something just to illustrate my point. After I tell friends, relatives, teachers, etc. that I got into H, Y, and P, I usually get the following:“Ohhhhhhhhhh, (with respect) H A R V A R D!!! That’s great. And Yale…hmmmm…is this not some community college in Texas? Never heard anything about the third one!”</p>
<p>lol good thing we dont care about europe. jk, that may have been true here a few years ago, but i think because admissions are so competitive now, harvard, yale, and princeton are regarded in the same breath here, whether or not one of those words is silent. the perception used to be that yale is full of harvard rejects and princeton is full of yale rejects, but the competition in recent years has rendered that generalization false.</p>
<p>so now Harvard = Yale = Princeton = Stanford = MIT > Penn >= Columbia, etc</p>
<p>(good job captain obvious)</p>
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<p>I just loled. Seriously.</p>
<p>“they call it the H-bomb for a reason. not the Y-bomb, not the P-bomb. thats pop culture for you.”</p>
<p>actually, there ARE such things as P-bombs and Y-bombs. you’ll learn of the former, for sure, once you come to campus. just to confirm it for you, i googled “princeton AND p-bomb.” here is the first of 28 hits: an article in the PAW titled “the p-bomb: or why it is so hard to say you went to princeton.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/columns/tooke/tooke_04.html[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/columns/tooke/tooke_04.html</a></p>
<p>“yale AND y-bomb” yields an equal 28 hits, including from the YDN and the yale herald. granted, “harvard AND h-bomb” produces 13,400, but most refer to the controversial sex magazine started at harvard last year in that name.</p>