Princeton v. Stanford SCEA 2018

BiologyMaster64
Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:57:43 +0000

“My faith is very important to me … I’m also pretty politically liberal and open-minded”

Sounds like Princeton is the perfect place for you in this regard then. The various Christian groups are diverse in size and focus. In general, Princeton is intellectually diverse and the vast majority of students are very open. There are some laid back eating clubs (some of my Christian friends are active members of a sign-in one for example) and you can also go independent and get a nice suite with a kitchen in Spelman or join a coop and take turns cooking with them.

I feel like Princeton and Stanford are both looking for that “spark” in applicants’ extracurricular activities so I can’t answer your question about that but at least in the past two years SCEA admittance for Princeton has been pretty high. It may have just been the fact that it was re-implemented very recently though…

If you’re doing college visits, definitely check out the new Frick chemistry building. Princeton’s been building a lot lately so several departments have been given more space for faculty. We’ve hired some new professors and gotten shiny new equipment to fill up Frick. One of the new professors from Cornell taught my Gen Chem class last semester and he’s apparently doing some brilliant things in quantum chemistry. More Molecular Bio / Psych faculty will come in with the new Neuro/Psych buildings that are coming next year and the integrative genomics institute (interdisciplinary bio / natural sciences) was completed several years ago.

That was a really roundabout answer but I guess I just wanted to say that it’s an exciting time for the natural sciences at Princeton. Keep in mind that the grad school is small so professors will be interacting with undergrad students a lot more than they will be at Stanford.