What are Stanford's Peer Schools?

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<p>you forgot caltech!!</p>

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<p>I don't usually mention Cal Tech just because its much smaller than comparable schools, but obviously its on the level with HYPSM if you want to compare it...however, I think its more like the "Williams" of science since its so small</p>

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<p>^^ yeah a school with ~300 people isn't really a fair comparison</p>

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<p>National Academy members--Stanford 253
Harvard 267
MIT 238
Yale 101
Princeton 90</p>

<p>Only other school with over 200 is UCB.</p>

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<p>Caltech has 900 undergraduates, by the way, not 300. O_O</p>

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<p>Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, perhaps Yale as well?</p>

<p>1) Faculty members selected into the prestigious national academy of science:
<a href="http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/723153091?pg=rslts%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/723153091?pg=rslts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Harvard (165+4)
Berkeley (128+1)
Stanford (125+5)
MIT (100+5)
princeton (71+5)
Caltech (70+4)</p>

<p>Yale (59+1)
Duke (20)</p>

<p>2) Faculty members winning national medal of sciences
<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/results.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/results.cfm&lt;/a>
Harvard (33 winners)
Stanford (31 winners)
Berkeley (24)
MIT (22)
Caltech (22)
Princeton (15)</p>

<p>Yale (8)</p>

<p>Duke (0)</p>

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<p>Stanford's peer schools in engineering:
MIT, Berkeley, Caltech</p>

<p>Faculty members selected into national academy of engineering:</p>

<p>MIT (110)
Stanford (88)
Berkeley (73)
Caltech (29)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members%20By%20Parent%20InstitutionU?OpenView&Start=30%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members%20By%20Parent%20InstitutionU?OpenView&Start=30&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Not sure if having a professor with a national medal of science matters for undergrads...though it might?</p>

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<p>what do you mean when you say its like the Williams of science?
I dont know much about Williams..
so trying to figure out..is that praising Caltech or is it derogatory??</p>

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<p>Except CalTech is even half the size of Williams.</p>

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<p>^^ Williams is considered among the top liberal arts schools so I think it was a compliment.</p>

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<p>ah, indeed it was a compliment..just read about it on wikipedia : )</p>

<p>gellino..there are 1945 undergrads and 59 grads at Williams(approx.) that brings the total college population to around 2000..Caltech has about 2100 students(900 undergards and 1200 grads)..
how does that make caltech half the size of Williams?</p>

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<p>Williams is an amazing liberal arts college, but it is much smaller in size than comparable schools like Yale, Columbia, Duke, Brown, Harvard...etc.</p>

<p>Which is why I'm saying CalTech is like Williams...as it is smaller than comparable schools such as Stanford or MIT, Harvard, Columbia, etc.</p>

<p>So, definitely a compliment!</p>

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<p>Stanford's peer schools are like harvard, yale, princeton, MIT, caltech. It just puts more weight on different factors then the other top colleges, which is why SAT scores aren't everything.</p>

<p>Stanford is basically the "cool" Ivy.</p>

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<p>It's not an Ivy, squirt.</p>

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<p>Yeah, squirt.</p>

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<p>Cal Tech is basically a research institute that allows some students to hang around and helpout. There are a few others but they are grad only.</p>

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<p>Stanford seems to have a pretty good yield this year. I am interested in what the cross-admit stat against HY are this year.</p>

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<p>lol i know it's not an ivy, i was just using it as an expression.</p>

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<p>haha barrons..i woudnt say that..its incredibly hard to get admitted to just "hang out" there..nd the workload is pretty killing..which basically means students cannot hang out ANYWHERE!</p>