Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

College Search & Selection
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<p>Harvard is significantly more prestigious than any other school.
We aren’t talking about minute, negligible discrepancies here.</p>

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<p>The discussion isn’t which school is the most prestigious but which one you would choose. Personally, at this level of prestige, I think prestige should be 0% of the reason to pick a school, while others on here seem to still consider it the most important reason, but maybe that’s why I applied to Princeton and Yale (and not Harvard). To me, there is the not so small matter of considering which place you would actually like the best as opposed to which will most impress people on an Internet forum or which one is most likely to be heard of by the average citizen in Hungary.</p>

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<p>“If I could get into them though, I would also be able to get into Duke, and I would have to say that I would choose Duke over any other school in the country.”</p>

<p>No, not necessarily. A girl at my school got accepted into Harvard but rejected by Duke.</p>

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<p>“A girl at my school got accepted into Harvard but rejected by Duke.”</p>

<p>I bet she doesn’t mind.</p>

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<p>Part of Stanford’s high yield is that it’s by far the best school in CA, and the ivies/MIT are
3000 miles away. </p>

<p>And I’d choose Harvard, because I’m a sellout/whore.</p>

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<p>Stanford > Harvard+Yale
Princeton > Harvard</p>

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<p>Princeton.</p>

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<p>In 2006, the NY Times created a statistical chart of cross-admitted students. Based upon the data, Harvard has the edge over Yale and Princeton, not to mention every other school in the survey. See below link. </p>

<p>[The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html]The”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)</p>

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<p>I get Harvard and I get Princeton. Can anybody sum up in a few sentences what’s so special about Yale?</p>

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<p>I would guess that the residential college system and fairly open curriculum would draw some fans.</p>

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<p>I’d choose Yale because the campus seems most like Hogwarts :)</p>

<p>…just kidding!</p>

<p>I’d probably pick Princeton undergrad and Yale Law</p>

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I feel the same way sometimes.</p>

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<p>Wrong. It was not a chart of cross-admitted students’ decisions.</p>

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<p>The NY Times chart and the study it drew upon never disclosed any specific example of one school beating another in cross-admits (ie. having a higher number of surveyed students matriculate after admission to both schools). </p>

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<p>That link is false information and should be retired from use on CC.<br>
100+ repostings by the Harvard PR front is a bit much, especially when none of the posters understand the study.</p>

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<p>Would you like to help us understand the study then, instead of condemning something and not saying exactly why?</p>

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<p>The point is you really cannot understand the study since it is garbage to begin with.</p>

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<p>Princeton, because the other two don’t even have my major.</p>

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<p>Yale. I prefer its campus to the others’, I like the residential houses, and from people I know who have gone to HYP I like the Y ones much more.</p>

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<p>How much more exactness do you want, when I just informed you that:
-“It was not a chart of cross-admitted students’ decisions.”
-“The NY Times chart and the study it drew upon never disclosed any specific example of one school beating another in cross-admits (ie. having a higher number of surveyed students matriculate after admission to both schools).”
-“That [chart contains] false information and should be retired” </p>

<p>Assuming that those assertions are true, what additional help do you need in order to disregard the 100+ claims in the CC boards, that the NY Times chart shows cross-admit data found in a survey of several thousand students?</p>

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<p>I would attend Harvard.</p>

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<p>How about a link to the study or a justification of why the statistics of the study cannot be trusted to predict cross-admit decisions. That would help.

  1. So what was it then?
  2. And why can it not be used to predict cross-admitted students?
  1. Does non-disclosure make it false?
  2. Are specific examples required in predictive statistics?
  1. With the above questions answered this may be prima facie.</p>

<p>I’m not doubting what you said, I’d just like to see for myself in order to better understand.</p>