Why did you pick your college?

mea
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:03:47 +0000

I chose Princeton over Yale, UC Berkeley and Northwestern HPME. Not an easy choice. It came out to Princeton having a high quality of education across all departments and students who responded whole-heartedly to my emails and expressed how happy and intellectually exciting the campus was. One tip – I thought it important to get in contact with the pre-med office; the quality of an undergraduate is important but realistically, if you know where you want to be in the future, it may be helpful to try and get a feel for what sort of help you’ll receive getting there: at Yale, the office was quite closed-mouth about any hard stats and generally reserved and even a little hostile, whereas at Princeton they were warm, honest, and helpful.