Rank HYPSM

College Search & Selection
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<p>That's Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton and MIT.</p>

<p>^That's my order, and it's America's order too, acording to the US News 2005 prestige survey. It appears that Stanford has climbed above Princeton and Yale both in terms of job placement, average starting salary and national prestige (to the average person.) Few examples:</p>

<p>--on Grey's Anatomy (TV show,) an intern is deemed smart for graduating top in her class at Stanford.</p>

<p>--on myspace.com, there is a bulliten that mentions Stanford graduates in a context of the smartest people in the world (the only other school mentioned in such chain bullitens is Harvard.)</p>

<p>--the media since 1999 has been trumpeting Stanford. I have read several articles in various magazines and papers (Time, US News, Phoenix Sun Times, Miami Herald...) stressing that Stanford is as good as Harvard now. Of course, no one will buy THAT, but Stanford does appear to have eclipsed Yale and Princeton. I don't think many would make the argument that MIT is in the same league as the other four.</p>

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<p>personally for undergraduate:
Yale = Princeton
Stanford
Harvard
MIT</p>

3

<p>MIT
Stanford
Princeton/Harvard
Yale</p>

<p>But I'm a science guy.</p>

4

<p>Can we stop these ranking ****?
RANKS DOESN'T MATTER</p>

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<p>this is stupid.</p>

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<p>gomestar is onto something.</p>

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<p>Overall "prestige," i.e., knowledge of the school when you ask the average McDonald's worker:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale/Stanford (tie)</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
</ol>

<p>Prestige among the well-connected and knowledgable:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard/Yale (tie)</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>

<p>Quality of undergraduate education - liberal arts:</p>

<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
</ol>

<p>Quality of undergraduate education - sciences:</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT, Yale (tie)</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>

<p>Selectivity:</p>

<ol>
<li>Yale/Harvard (tie)</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>

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<p>Emory is number 1, hands down.</p>

<p>Also Mboyle for references colleges in the same sentence as myspace.com you have officially degraded all ivy league schools, careful they might be hunting for you.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
</ol>

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<p>boring thread....</p>

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<p>Myspace is evil...</p>

<p>getting spicey enough for you, mr.dnd?</p>

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<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
</ol>

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<p>Harvard=Yale
Princeton
and a very, very distant last....MIT=Stanford</p>

<p>Stanford gets penalized because of the location and MIT because of its excessive science/engineering focus. You can obviously tell that I abhor science deeply. I'd actually put some of the middle ivies like UPENN and Columbia between Princeton and SM. :D</p>

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<p>Emory=trump school</p>

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<p>Q: When did myspace.com and Grey's Anatomy become definitive standard bearers for measuring "prestige"?</p>

<p>(p.s - Time, US News, Phoenix Sun Times, Miami Herald??? Good Lord. I can't believe the number of people who continue to think that US News is any good...)</p>

<p>Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of the Economist (no, it's not a magazine dedicated to economics) and read it cover to cover - you'll definitely learn something.</p>

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<p>Prestige:</p>

<p>HYPSM (maybe that's why it's called HYPSM)</p>

<p>Undergrad education:</p>

<p>Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT</p>

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<p>From highest to lowest:
Princeton (215)
Yale (75)
Stanford (23)
Harvard/MIT (19)</p>

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<p>Oh great. Yet another one of these absolutely pointless and inane ranking threads. Move along folks. There's nothing to see here.</p>