<p>Yes, of course it was… Princeton is a great school and most would agree that Berkeley isn’t quite at the same level. I made my decision on where I would fit in better and of course, the costs. if I had not gotten Regents at Berkeley, I would have gone to Princeton mainly because Princeton would have offered a better Financial Aid package. But since I got Regents at Berkeley, the prices were better for Berkeley and coming from a somewhat large family, money was and always will be an issue. Moreover, I did not like how Princeton graded on a bell curve for everything. I was quite intimidated by the students I had met… they were all geniuses at something and had all gotten into HYPSM and a bunch of other good schools… I just felt more comfortable at Cal. There are down-to-earth normal people here! And Princeton is in the middle of nowhere… I hated how I would have to fly red-eye most of the time to get there and then spend two hours on two trains to just get to campus. I made a huge pro-con list to make the decision and submitted by SIR on the second to the last day!</p>