<p>All those stats are interesting in emphasizing the importance of the course of study that interests you. </p>
<p>Re: the silly post about the size of the library (as though that has any relevance in the internet age 
) I can share an experiene that overwhelmingly favors Stanford –</p>
<p>Freshman year at Stanford, 1975, my four year dorm (Loro), the senior engineering major in the room next to me had a small blue box about the size of an engagement ring box,. It was connected to the phone and had a small toggle switch out the top. I had noticed it a few times and finally asked him what it was. He told me he had inherited it from a student who had graduated the year prior, and that it fooled the phone company into opening long distance circuits at no charge. Remember this was a time when the AT&T monopoly priced a call from Palo Alto to Los Angeles was $1.20 per minute.</p>
<p>Flash forward to 1995. I’m watching a retrospective on Apple computer on TV. Steve Wozniak is being interviewed, along with Jobs. Woz recalls being in the Stanford stacks, bored, looking for something interesting in the Engineering section. He finds, in literally the last row, bottom shelf, last book in the library, the AT&T manual for (I think) the 5Ess switch. In the manual was the source code for the long distance switching.</p>
<p>So Woz created this little blue box to send a tonal signal signal to the AT&T long distance switch that fooled it into opening the circuit to any number in the world. Woz then called the Pope in Vatican City. doing his best Henry Kissinger impersonation. It worked for about five minutes before they caught onto him. that’s when I learned I was a year or two late in being Woz’ next door neighbor.</p>
<p>so, I ask, who has the better library? Who has the students best prepared to make the best use of the resources in the library? Who would you want as a roommate – Steve Wozniak or (fill in the name) at Yale?</p>
<p>P.S. In my visit to Yale in 1974, I visited a couple of freshmen from my high school. All they could talk about was how the Army said you needed four hours sleep, but at Yale they’ve proved you only need two. At Stanford I slept in.</p>