<p>The last significant earthquake at Stanford was almost a century ago. The last significant infestation at Harvard was...oh that's right, its happening as we speak.</p>
<p>You need to be educated about these things.</p>
<p>Only recently were repairs completed following the 1989 "mini" quake.</p>
<p>The odds of a major tremblor in the fault running through Palo Alto in the next 25 years are 21%.</p>
<p>Damn. I wish I had taken this earthquake thing into consideration before I accepted my Stanford offer.</p>
<p>TO OP:
Choose Harvard on the basis that you will be safe from earthquakes during your undergraduate study</p>
<p>Worth thinking about. If the bridges go, access will be difficult.</p>
<p>Fortunately, Stanford has its own "Earthquake Engineering Center" hard at work to prepare for dealing with the next "big one." Not many elites can make a similar claim.</p>
<p><a href="http://blume.stanford.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://blume.stanford.edu/</a></p>
<p>"Worth thinking about. If the bridges go, access will be difficult."</p>
<p>Byerly, your posts make Harvard sound like a real utopia. Is Massachusetts vulnerable to blizzards, flooding from torrential rains, or hurricanes?</p>
<p>Harvard hasn't called off classes more than 3 days in 60 years due to weather.</p>
<p>"Harvard hasn't called off classes more than 3 days in 60 years due to weather."</p>
<p>Yes, I was there during the blizzard of 1996 and remember walking to class in 30 inches of snow (when every other high school and college in the Boston area was closed -- for days, in many cases).</p>
<p>But is there some point that you're trying to make...? Exactly how many days has Stanford class been cancelled in the past 60 years due to earthquakes? Are Stanford students affected by "tremors" the same way that Harvard students are affected by annual blizzards, storms, and hurricanes? Isn't this getting childish?</p>
<p>Honestly both suck, the AP has reported a recent sitings of man-bear-pig at both universities. Personally I would just go to Montana State.</p>
<p>foolish 400metres, we all know manbearpig was defeated long ago by former vice president Al Gore :)</p>
<p>"Last August, Stanford civil engineering doctoral student Rachel Davidson showed with her new Earthquake Disaster Risk Index that Bostonians face an overall risk of damage from earthquakes similar to San Franciscans. While quakes are less frequent in Boston, more buildings there were built before the introduction of modern seismic safety codes in 1975. Zanzerkia's study indicates that the hazard from quakes in Boston is more than a theoretical possibility."
-- <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1998/january7/bostonquake.html%5B/url%5D">http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1998/january7/bostonquake.html</a></p>
<p>"Cities at Risk for Earthquakes: Boston"
"To make matters worse, the rocks beneath the surface of New England are cooler in temperature than those beneath California, and would more readily transmit and even amplify the force of a quake. A 6.0 in Boston would be far more deadly than a similar quake in California, claiming 360 lives and causing up to $12 billion in property damage."
<a href="http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/articles/citiesatrisk_02.html%5B/url%5D">http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/articles/citiesatrisk_02.html</a></p>
<p>Byerly, you can run but you can't hide.</p>
<p>We do concede that Stanford is infested with caterpillars that hang from trees.</p>
<p>Oh, and during winter quarter in 1977 it snowed on campus one day.</p>
<p>
LOL I noticed that when I visited last month. It freaked me out for a second haha.</p>
<p>And yet .... the overwhelming majority of common admits continue to prefer Cambridge to Palo Alto, as they have in the past! </p>
<p>Perhaps it is the caterpillars, who knows?</p>
<p>And over 90 percent of all computer users elect to purchase a PC with a microsoft Windows operating system, but ask the 5 percent who elect to use a Mac if they'd switch... no way!</p>
<p>Harvrad yiels and peer schools</p>
<p>True enough. After all, there were even a few people who rejected presumably more attractive choices and opted for a Yugo!</p>
<p>Hey, don't make fun of Uncle Branislav.</p>
<p>When Stanford ranked higher than Harvard in every graduate discipline except for medicine, Harvard's response was something in the line of "We think that in their obsession with finding the best school, students forget to consider, which school will be best for them."</p>
<p>Ironically, Harvard's alumni confirmed that even here on this very board.</p>
<p>The overwhelming majority of common admits have always chosen Harvard over Stanford, and continue to do so.</p>
<p>See: "We offered, they declined" - <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/october6/decline-106.html%5B/url%5D">http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/october6/decline-106.html</a></p>