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Princeton v. MIT

Posted on 9/1/24 at 10:57 am
Posted by The Silverback
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Posted on 9/1/24 at 10:57 am
If given the chance to go to either school for a STEM degree, which would you pick?

Visited Princeton yesterday and the IAS, beautiful campus.
Posted by Buck Iron
Member since Aug 2024
151 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 10:58 am to
quant finance? princeton

math/stats? draw

everything else? mit
This post was edited on 9/1/24 at 11:01 am
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
60686 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 11:00 am to
quote:

Princeton v. MIT


Back in the day, both were top Engineering schools but MIT had the better model railroad club.

Harvard produced this guy





If you have ever had a jello shot, this guy invented it.

Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
21443 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 11:00 am to
MIT
Posted by Jim Hopper
Ocean Springs Mississippi
Member since Sep 2019
4381 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 11:02 am to
Just as long as you’re not into that whole “Yale thing”.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
79111 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 11:02 am to
MIT.

They moved back to test scores over holistic admissions, which is a sign they're backing away from wokeism.

If you're in STEM you want your education to be objective facts. You want it to anyway, but the consequences are much worse if you drive over a bridge whose designer thinks physics is a white supremacist construct.
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
31271 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 11:37 am to
I’d pick MIT in general but it would depend on what you’re studying
Posted by yellowfin
Coastal Bar
Member since May 2006
98750 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 11:41 am to
I don’t think you could go wrong with either but MIT for most majors
Posted by jb4
Member since Apr 2013
13669 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 12:06 pm to
The correct answer is Harvard
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
41329 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 12:07 pm to
MIT, I’m not living in NJ
Posted by Stevo
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2004
12340 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 12:37 pm to
Princeton is a great town! New Jersey is full of great townships.
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
44900 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 12:45 pm to
What degree?
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 9/1/24 at 12:46 pm to
Posted by coolpapaboze
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Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 9/1/24 at 12:55 pm to
quote:

MIT, I’m not living in NJ

Princeton is probably the best quality of life campus in the Ivy League. It's a college town of about 40K people, in the countryside, an hour from Manhattan and Philadelphia. It's nothing like most people's impression of NJ, which is generally Newark.
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
20462 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 1:00 pm to
Princeton.

I don’t want to commit suicide at MIT.
This post was edited on 9/1/24 at 1:00 pm
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72764 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 1:03 pm to
Either MIT or Princeton are great choices.

My late uncle (and namesake) held an MIT PhD in Physics.

He’d assuredly have gone as far in life had it instead been from Princeton.
Posted by Zeta_Zeta
TX
Member since Jul 2018
85 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 1:06 pm to
Xavier is a much better STEM school. They teach using ancient Wakandan knowledge.
Posted by nitwit
Member since Oct 2007
13059 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 1:09 pm to
Both are great choices.
As are Harvard and Yale.
And you should never rely on people who invoke the term “woke” in making recommendations in these matters, no matter which school you are considering.
If you have the opportunity to go to any of these schools, you are fortunate.
Posted by Koach K
Member since Nov 2016
4801 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 1:10 pm to
Yeah….. better hope someone in the fam is a US senator or on the board of a nasdaq company if you think you’re getting hired after graduation.
Posted by 844_Tiger
Down_Under
Member since Jul 2021
172 posts
Posted on 9/1/24 at 1:17 pm to
Princeton for theoretical physics.
MIT for everything else in STEM
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