<p>It is a small Baptist university in Texas. It has a solid medical reputation and many outstanding kids flock to it.</p>
<p>DRab-- Me, a punk? (Jaw dropping, staring in disbelief.) Compared to gutrade I'm far from punk. Have you seen the posts gut has written? Geez, this guy has been here months and months ago when I used this site and has been bashing this and that ever since.</p>
<p>Anyway, I beg to differ. Yale is famous for art and literature, not science.</p>
<p>i agree</p>
<p>nobody in their right mind goes to yale for science. it'd be like going to MITfor french.</p>
<p>Oh and Drab..just wondering, but which dorm are you staying in?</p>
<p>Just wanted to let you know that you do not necessarily have to go to welcome week or move in on move-in-day, because it's practically worthless. (Or maybe I should say fun and exciting...) However, if you want the pick of the side of the room, move in on move in day.</p>
<p>Zip, I probably only said something because it sounded like you posted to start some sort of flame war. Yes, G&S is a punk, but I hope hes aware of it.</p>
<p>I cannot find the placement of Yale college students into med schools, but I would imagine that its placement of getting each student into at least one medical school is in at least the mid 80s (although I believe higher.) Although Yale is not known for the sciences in particular, to imagine that its program is anything less that great is foolhardy. Although I am unable to see how high, Yales applied mathematics, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics grad programs all ranked in the US News and blah blah rankings. Yale is known to give a thorough broad education to all of its student, arguably better than any other university, with a much greater focus on undergraduates than perhaps any other university. If this holds throughout the curriculum, it would translate to more attention from the same caliber professors as schools with more of a focus on grad students, such as Harvard and Chicago. </p>
<p>Alright, so Yale isnt famous for science, but guess what? They still have amazing science programs. To tell you the truth, I honestly dont know that much about them. I do know many people who have gone to Yale, done science, and have been quite successful in life, getting into multiple med schools and being more educated about other things than just science, too. So what? Yale =/= MIT, Caltech, or Stanford when it comes to the sciences. But guess what else. How far away do you really think it is? ONLY one of the top 10? What losers.</p>
<p>Im living in Unit 1, in a lovely double (I was lucky.) I plan on moving in on move in day for me, although I might regret it later, I dont think itll be a big deal either way. Thank you for your advice, though.</p>
<p>I know that I am late in this but here is my very subjective list, based on nothing but my own impressions. The schools are not in any particular order.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
UPenn
Berkeley</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Princeton/Yale
Stanford
Berkeley</p>
<p>1.Princeton/Harvard
2.MIT/Stanford
3.Yale</p>
<p>IMO,</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley.</p>
<p>Not very many top US schools are known internationally.</p>
<p>Coca Cola has more name recognition than Cognac.</p>
<p>Microsoft has more name recognition that Macintosh.</p>
<p>McDonald's has more name recognition than any 5-star chef.</p>
<p>The focus should be on quality, not marketing.</p>
<p>"useless information"----> a lot of information on CC is useless (dont get me wrong its a great site with lots of useful stuff-no offence intended for all the friendly moderators), especially the threads whose goal is to convince others that one university is "better" than all the others or that university A is better than university B</p>
<p>greatlakes - your post would be viable, except you realize that you don't get "McDonald's or Coca Cola on your diploma. When you want to get hired, a college that is well recognized will get much more credibility than someone from Podunk univ.</p>
<p>Caltech
Harvard
MIT
Princeton/Yale
Stanford</p>
<p>I wouldn't put UCLA on any of the lists. People in India aren't too aware of it, and that's 1/6 of the world's population. When I was deciding between Berkeley and LA, all my relatives didn't think UCLA was in the same league (which it is).</p>
<p>1) Oxford/Harvard
2) Yale/Princeton/Stanford
3) MIT
4) Cambridge</p>
<p>That's from my encounters with other people. In the UK, Cambridge is regarded on equal terms with Oxford though.</p>
<p>Die die die die die. This thread should die. It has gone on quite long enough, and very little new information is being added.</p>
<p>lest we forget</p>
<p>To the person comparing University A to Podunk University.</p>
<p>I said focus on quality. No quality education will be viewed poorly, and certainly not as a "podunk" school, whether you mean Swarthmore or CWRU or the University of Wisconsin-Madison. </p>
<p>In any case, studies have shown that people of similar IQ make virtually the same amount of money no matter where they attended school, so this whole argument about "if you don't have Oxford on your diploma your life is screwed" is rather suspect.</p>
<p>I'd rather go to a quality school, get a quality education, and be in an environment I liked rather than go to, say Harvard, and be miserable with all my TAs, lack of collegiate social life, frigid weather, and impoverished arts scene just because it has a big name. </p>
<p>The best advice is to pick the best fit for you based on your values and predilictions and possible career goals (except these change dramatically for most students from age 17 to 25).</p>
<p>zheng....why did you bump this thread ;(</p>