Pardon my ignorance, but what is HYPS? I see it being used a lot in posts related to Harvard… or does it stand for “Harvard Yale Princeton Yale?”
Thanks.
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Variations on this are HYPMS (+ MIT) and HYPMCS (+ Caltech) - the six colleges generally considered to be the most selective and presitgious in America.</p>
<p>Ohhh lol i meant to say "harvard yale princeton stanford" lol okay thanks.</p>
<p>A bunch of over-HYP-ed schools. :)</p>
<p>lol.. the C on the end can also mean Columbia or Cornell.</p>
<p>And it should be Columbia seeing as how Columbia was more selective than Princeton, MIT and Caltech this year. :)</p>
<p>I guess the "P" could stand for Penn if you have been rejected by the "other" P</p>
<p>Columbia is not as good as Caltech, and it is not as selective as Caltech either. Acceptance rates can be misleading.</p>
<p>The P can never stand for U of Penn. On a side note, I think U of Penn should find some old dead white guy to be named after. Or a cartoon character.</p>
<p>there the troll goes again
don't feed him</p>
<p>Actually I think sempitem is a bigger troll with more posts under his belt.</p>