<p>yes, perhaps athletics will make a difference, and there I'll have to admitt that Bulldogs tend to be more effective than Lions</p>
<p>To all those who say Yale is stronger in the humanities: I'd like to see evidence for that.</p>
<p>transfer to yale :)</p>
<p>Columbia and Yale are roughly equivalent in the humanities (Yale has the edge, perhaps, in English and the Classics; Columbia in Philosophy and East Asian studies), though if faculty membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences were the measure, Columbia would appear to hold the edge. In the last two decades, Columbia has improved so greatly that its reputation hasn't quite caught up to its reality.</p>
<p>dwharris: I totally agree, but I must even say that the great thing of these both Unis comes more from their capacity to exchange knowledge that from their rivality. I know that if you are a grad student of History in Columbia you are allowed to take some credits at NYU, Princeton and Yale. I guess that the same thing will happen if you study history at Yale. So it seems to me that the prestige of a University isn't only build upon its internal capacity to undertake its own research but of its ability o exchange knowledge with its peer institutions</p>