<p>I see this all over the board...I think it has something to do with the top schools?</p>
<p>it's HYPMS, not HYMPS. stands for Harvard Yale Princeton MIT Stanford.</p>
<p>Frankly saying, I'm astonished by your question, for your post count indicates that you've been hanging around this CC board long enough to make out all the abbreviations :D j/k</p>
<p>FYI, HYMPS stands for the five most prestigious universities in the States, including: Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton and Stanford.</p>
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<p>Well, that's a matter of opinion. :]</p>
<p>Not really. Certain people may find some universities to be bigger and badder, but these are the five colleges that your regular guy on the street has undoubtedly heard of, (wheras in some places if you said Cornell/Rice/UPenn/WashU/Amherst they'd have no idea what you were talking about).</p>
<p>If it stood for all of the ivies I would have figured it out, but it is kind of random. MIT, stanford? Why not CIT MIT? Or Columbia, Stanford? Hmm.</p>
<p>Muraski...um no.</p>
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If it stood for all of the ivies I would have figured it out, but it is kind of random. MIT, stanford? Why not CIT MIT? Or Columbia, Stanford? Hmm.
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<p>Sometimes people do throw Caltech in there and say "HYPMSC"</p>
<p>i think Caltech is a very good one in both the US and the World; the best ones should be: CHYMPS</p>
<p>If you listed the ivies it would be HYPUCDBC</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
UPenn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>Much harder to remember than HYPSM.</p>
<p>Murasaki is kind of right. No one on the west coast has heard of Amherst.</p>
<p>Thoughts on: Cornell/Rice/UPenn/WashU/Amherst</p>
<p>Cornell - Everyone's heard of Cornell. Easily the best-known of the bunch among laymen.</p>
<p>Rice - Many people have heard about it, but know nothing about it (including where it is).</p>
<p>UPenn - to quote the penn facebook group, "NOT PENN STATE, YOU DUMB B1TCH". Now, if you say "Wharton", then everyone will know about the place.</p>
<p>Wash U - People get looks of confusion and say things like "Oh, I hear it's very rainy up there", or "Is that in Washington State or Washington DC?"</p>
<p>Amherst - Well known among academia, but most of the LACs have a problem with name recognition. Williams probably has it even worse. Among the LACs, I'd say that Vassar and Swarthmore have the best name recognition.</p>
<p>To most people: Wesleyan=Wellesley.</p>
<p>The people that throw around this statement like "I want to go to HYPMS, don't care which one..." are the type of people that are only looking for prestige and name recognition when considering which schools to apply to. There are so many great schools. Check out this awsome article:</p>
<p>The article has a bunch of ridiculous claims - for example that a spot on the Harvard wait list is "coveted"... it's nothing more than a glorified rejection. And then, they make a big deal about the one person who turned down Brown for Wash U (which is ranked higher). They also highlight two people who turned down other schools for full rides (one of which is the prestigious Morehead).</p>
<p>The article is a bunch of anecdotes with no statistics to back them up; it seems like a cheap shot to attempt to discredit the top universities and their rightly-earned prestige.</p>
<p>I believe the most common order is HYPSM, correct?</p>
<p>^Agreed...</p>
<p>Does it matter the order? It is an unofficial abbreviation</p>
<p>Anyway, Mr. Pink, I don't want to debate the truth of the article-but I would like to ask why you are so defensive of the ivy league. Do you go to one of the schools or something? Why does a credible article need to have statistical data. If you can't understand the human aspect of the article, don't take it out on the piece. The article had a number of truths-namely that we need to relax and pick schools not for their rankings but for their natural fit to the student. What is so wrong with that, it makes a great deal more sense than just applying to HYPSM or however you say it.</p>
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<p>Very easy to remember.</p>
<p>I prefer FAKE, as in the students that apply to all of these schools are FAKE: The schools are too different for a student to say "I could see myself going here" Harvard is way different than Princeton which is way different than MIT. These kids are phony and should look at programs within the schools.</p>