<p>You opened up yourself to attack there my friend. Princeton, Harvard, and Yale have the suckiest engineering programs imaginable. Stanford has one of the strongest. </p>
<p>Stanford also has incredible humanities departments. Most people are familiar with the Stanford Prison Experiment and with the writings of John Steinbeck.
Stanford is in fact the only university that is good at everything....from every academic department to athletics. Engineering is the achilles heel of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Weak graduate programs is another achilles heel of Princeton. </p>
<p>Stanford is the only well-rounded, strong-in-every-department university. Berkeley is also well-rounded, but it isn't as good as Stanford for its undergrad.</p>