<p>Ok, as an alum, I need to step in.</p>
<p>When Leland Stanford, Jr. died, his parents went to Harvard (dressed San Fran style) and wanted to donate some money in his honor. The President of Harvard saw these two country bumbkins and said they did not have enough, so no. ****ed them off, so they went back west and built Stanford. and now they are far ahead of the Stanford of the East (which some call Harvard)</p>
<p>In all ways Stanford is probably better than Harvard. There is no question. As an undergrad, I had Linus Pauling and several other Nobel prize winners teaching me – no grad students except for lab courses.</p>