<p>What does it mean? It seems to have something to do with the ivies...but what I'm not sure.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>HPY is Harvard, Princeton, Yale.</p>
<p>The M refers to MIT and the S to Stanford.</p>
<p>These schools are often grouped together in people’s minds – and in posts on this board – because they have extremely low admission rates. Two others that perhaps should be added to the group are Caltech and Columbia, which have similarly low admission rates.</p>
<p>There is an overlap between the extremely-low-admission-rate group and the Ivy League, but the two groups are not exactly the same.</p>
<p>The term is usually HYPSM including variants such as HYPS or just HYP. The 5 letters represent Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford & MIT but are often used as a generalization in reference to the most selective schools.</p>