<p>I’m in almost the same situation as you. I have been offered a place at Princeton and at Oxford (to read history and politics). From what I keep hearing, Princeton’s undergraduate programme is top in the US. You’ll have access to excellent resources and great professors plus the atmosphere is genuinely academic (read about the junior paper and the senior thesis). Plus there’s a whole list of other academic attractions that you won’t find at other US colleges like free auditing courses, precepts (modelled after the Oxford tutorial), the field-study programme and an incredible open-stack library. Oxford, on the other hand, is incredibly prestigious and is famous for it’s tutorial system. I wouldn’t really listen to all that crap about ‘brain drain’ because it really isn’t that relevant to undergrads. Oxford dons teach you to think in ways you have never imagined and the tutorial experience is truly extraordinary. PPE is quite a broad subject so there’s enough there to keep you interested for three years (I have two friends who are doing PPE at Magdalen and Brasenose and they both agree). As for art history, you’ll probably be able to join a number of societies that will keep you interested plus there’s the Ashmolean museum which offers a number of internships for students. Accomodation depends on which college you got into at Oxford. The one difference is that almost all the rooms at Oxford are singles, whereas at Princeton you’ll probably have one or more room-mates (although there are a number of singles too). I haven’t made up my mind yet so I’m waiting to see what other people post! In your case, you should probably do PPE at Oxford and then go to Harvard or Yale for a post-graduate law degree.</p>