What is better?

Opensecret
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:49:16 +0000

All three reject more than 90% of their applicants. Princeton takes a higher percentage of applicants than H or C, but that does not mean that the particular package you bring has a better shot at P than one of the others. You know people accepted at C but rejected at H, and there are others who were accepted at C but rejected at H. C has had a particularly fast run-up in selectivity the last few years (partly because they just switched to the Common App). Both H and P are returning to EA after dropping it a few years back. So it’s a fluid situation that’s hard for much of anyone to predict.

If you have no preference, you might as well pick one from a hat. You’ll save a lot of effort and angst, and can devote the time saved to strengthening your application.