<p>a couple small corrections: first, few yale students live in their residential college for all four years. the vast majority of yale freshmen instead are assigned to old campus, where they live in proximity, and a fair number (relative to princeton) move off-campus in their upperclass years, the latter fact made possible in part by the much more affordable housing stock in new haven. second, princeton is a town of more like 30,000, not 15,000. while princeton is just over an hour from new york (and philadelphia, in the other direction), yale is more than an hour and a half from “the city.” this all said, your points remain that yale has a stronger, more established college system, and a much more urban setting.</p>