(Vote)Who are the best of the best universites in US in your mind?

Graduate School
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<p>I know the difference between UG and Grad... and I choose A, what about you? </p>

<p>A.Harvard</p>

<p>B.HYP</p>

<p>C.HYPS</p>

<p>D.HYPS+MIT</p>

<p>E.HYP+UPenn+Columbia+Stanford+MIT</p>

<p>F.Top10:HYP+UPenn+Columbia+ (Non Ivy)Stanford+MIT+Duke +UChicago+Caltech</p>

<p>G.Ivy League+ Stanford+MIT</p>

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<p>Your question shows a complete and total lack of understanding concerning graduate and professional programs. It is the POI and, to a much lesser extent, the dept that matter. The schools you have listed, while great UGs, may or may not have even halfway decent programs and faculty in a given field and, especially, in a given area of interest.</p>

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<p>I’m speechless</p>

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<p>this post is all over the gradcafe too lol</p>

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<p>I vote for Caltech: they probably have the highest nobel laureates:student and lowest student:faculty ratios of any university word wide. Don’t like sciences? Your loss!</p>

<p>I also nominate this thread for the most-ignorant-post-of-the-month award.</p>

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<p>I guess Choice F.</p>

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<p>and yet the OP can’t decide between columbia and upenn!!!1!111!!!1</p>

<p>just goes to show you, folks. high academic achievement is not a reflection of how smart you are. just how good you are at school.</p>

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<p>I mean give the guy a break he is just asking a question, so what if he doesn’t understand things, most Americans and internationals have no idea that grad programs are ranked by specific department and instead just look to the big schools and the Ivy League.</p>

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<p>This thread belongs on the college forum. This is a GRADUATE forum where we rank schools by DEPARTMENT. A Harvard name doesn’t mean anything if I want to pursue social work.</p>

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<p>ok i see the point</p>

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<p>I would also mention that every school on this list is private. Take a look at a school like Berkeley, where almost every department is ranked in the top 10 nationally (across a wide range of disciplines). This, while at the same time being a public institution that gives an education to thousands of students from a wide range of personal backgrounds, would (arguably) earn it a spot on that list.</p>

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<p>This post looks like something that would be posted in the Parent’s Caf</p>

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<p>Mitmitten, I think the posters in this thread are more irked at the fact that that these kinds of inane posts that have been discussed to death are generally kept out of the grad forum. In that sense, many of us view the grad forum as the last bastion of sanity on these boards.</p>

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<p>gthopeful,</p>

<p>Speak for yourself! I’m a huge fan of the “Rank these schools according to prestige” and “Waitlisted at Harvard: Is suicide the answer?” threads.</p>

<p>Gotta love the HS kids.</p>

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

<p>Columbia, Cornell, Chicago, UPenn, UMich, Duke, JHU</p>

<p>UCLA, CMU, Gatech, Brown, Rice, etc</p>

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<p>Why did those Yale guys say that Yale is best in the world</p>

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<p>For the same reason Harvardians say Harvard is the best in the world, and Princetonians say Princeton is the best in the world.</p>