<p>^I never said Columbia’s athletes are comparable to stanford’s, my point was that you can’t take athletes out of the sat equation for stanford and not for columbia, because removing athletes from columbia’s sat calculation would also increase sat scores considerably. </p>
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<p>actually I’m not sure Stanford could sustain a yeild anywhere near 72% if they took kids with better scores, why, do you have a study to prove otherwise? And I’m not sure columbia’s yield would drop so drastically if they admitted higher scores, why, do you have a study to prove otherwise</p>
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<p>While not guaranteed to be scientific I think I’ve given ample evidence to support the claim that many people, especially in the north east, consider Columbia more prestigious than Stanford. If you polled the entire American public, I’m sure Stanford would come out on top, but that wasn’t the initial statement. </p>
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<p>whatever the revealed preferences study revealed might not be relevant anymore, things change and Yale could very well be beating Harvard for cross-admits this year.</p>
<p>Anyway good to see Columbia paling in comparison to Stanford.</p>