<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT. How do you put them together? Certainly you don't want to list them all, but HYPSM is truly bad too. It is probably as difficult to arrange them as to tell which one is better.</p>
<p>Maybe PHYMS is better.</p>
<p>HYP or HYPS. No MIT. It doesn't fir well with the others. It's not as prestigious nore is it as well rounded as the other 4.</p>
<p>HYPSM is just fine. Adding CalTech gives you CHYMPS, which is appealing :) After those, nothing makes sense to add, unless a W for the Wharton School at UPenn, which might be the most selective program to get into except for joint degree undergrad/MD programs.</p>
<p>I told you all, out with HYPS and in with PAWS!!!</p>
<p>Pomona, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore</p>
<p>CHYMPS includes University of Chicago, not CalTech.</p>
<p>I don't even know why I'm bothering posting in this thread, but the first use of CHYMPS on this board referred to Cal Tech, NOT Chicago...and I'd argue that most of the past references were also using Cal Tech for the "C." It makes sense really...after all, it's the highest ranked US university that begins with a "C"</p>
<p>Lol it is NOT Chicago. Chicago doesn't deserve to be in the ranks of C(CIT)HYMPS just yet.</p>
<p>If someone from Chicago can deem the U of Chicago part of the ultra elite (C)HYMPS...then I, as a native San Diegan will change the "S" from Stanford to San Diego. I was going to have it be UCSD, but for fun lets make it San Diego State.</p>
<p>Any "M" in the acronym should stand for "Military Academies".</p>
<p>Why would UChicago be on that list before Penn? Or Brown? It's a good school, but it's not as prestigious or as well-known.</p>
<p>I think we should add Penn (signified by "L," because P is taken), so it can be MYLPHS.</p>
<p>If you added Rochester it could be SHRYMP.</p>
<p>That is why Rochester is never a CHYMPS, where C stands for Cal Tech. I think we are decoding the DNA of the college rankings now. Any fisheye view on CHYMPS is just a personal taste on the facts. I am sure that you will be extremely happy if you are one of the CHYMPS. Next will be what, Cornell, Columbia, Chicago, Penn-- CCCP?</p>
<p>^^Lol. "I applied to the CCCP."</p>
<p>Can there please be more elite schools that start with vowels for anagram-making purposes?</p>
<p>I propose Rochester, Emory, NYU, Stanford, Iowa, Trinity, and Amherst. Any Scrabble player would envy those letters.</p>
<p>The C is also sometimes Columbia.</p>
<p>I prefer HYPER-ADD:</p>
<p>H - Harvard
Y - Yale
P - Princeton
E - Emory
R - Rice
A - Amherst
D - Dartmouth
D - Duke</p>
<p>haha WHYMPS</p>
<p>When referring to top schools, why not just say "Columbia" and be done with it. ;)</p>
<p>There should be some meaning behind it. That is why HYPS works: Hypsiness is a higher form of happiness that only the select few can ever experience.</p>