brand value based on a survey can be subjective - this one has MIT at 1:
http://www.languagemonitor.com/top-colleges/top-400-us-college-brands-for-2014-by-trendtopper-mediabuzz/
The I-lab and Steven Pinker are pretty much unique to Harvard. I am also interested in the Mind, brain and behavior track.
@ClarinetDad16 I can not speak for any other place, but in Iran, The only University that has remotely the same brand value as Harvard is Stanford. A good portion of the people have not even heard the names of MIT, Yale, Penn etc.
Tell that to the BYU fanboys and see what they say.
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It is true, as @ClarinetDad16 says, that data can be presented in a subjective way. Nevertheless…
@soheils Harvard can ship Steve Pinker off to Stanford with many peoples blessing.
@gphi777 care to elaborate on that? Admittedly, my understanding of the American system may be far from perfect, but isn’t he a tenured professor?
More importantly, why would Harvard do that? And who would “bless” such an action?
I wonder why BYU has such a high yield (as a prospective BYU applicant and very active Latter Day Saint)… maybe just because of all the cultural appeal for Mormons and the low price tag?
Yes, those things, @Studious99, are huge draws. I’ve known a few people who have gone to BYU, and to them BYU is their Harvard, per my point in post #17. If I were typing this on a BYU thread, I would say that for some people, Harvard is their BYU. 
Good luck to you!
@soheils Steve Pinker is tenured . He is arrogant and not cared for by the students. He supported Larry Summers comments on women. He also thinks the SAT alone should determine college admissions solely. He is not leaving Harvard. It is just my opinion Harvard would be better off without him.
FWIW: MIT and Harvard are also tops on another list that is rarely mentioned: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/16/suicide-rate-mit-higher-than-national-average/1aGWr7lRjiEyhoD1WIT78I/story.html
@gibby Just reading your article the average rate at Harvard is 5,4. Nationally it is 7.5. So Harvard is doing better than average in this ugly matter
^^ The 5.4 rate is for all of Harvard University, which includes 11 graduate schools. The rate for Harvard College, the undergraduate school, is almost as high as MIT’s undergraduate rate. So no, Harvard isn’t doing better than average in terms of the undergraduate rate. Every year my daughter attended Harvard, sadly there was at least one suicide.
This is a good article from the Crimson trying to raise awareness about the subject: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/10/8/scrutiny-harvard-condition/
^^The 7.5 average is for ALL students. So Harvard is below average. Further the suicide rate for non students is about two times as high as students. So your studies show that Harvard is a relatively better environment than most.
^^ If you click on the underlined link in this sentence from the article
It brings up this pdf: http://www.sprc.org/sites/sprc.org/files/library/SuicideAmongCollegeStudentsInUS.pdf, which breaks down the figures between undergraduate, graduate, and non-students. Harvard’s undergraduate rate exceeds the average undergraduate rate and the non-student rate.
Also, please read the Crimson article in post #32, as it’s an eye-opener about the stress Harvard students are under.
And just for the record, I guess you are also suggesting the Boston Globe got it wrong when they wrote
^^Your sprc link just doesnt say what you represent. It says what I represent. Your should read it carefully please. Further the Crimson Article says approximately 1.2 per cent of freshmen at Harvard made a plan. Undergraduate average is 2.3 per cent. The Crimson article further states that approximately .7 per cent of Harvard freshmen made an attempt. The national undergraduate is 1.2 per cent. For non students it is 2.2 per cent
You should compare the data in the sprc link to the Harvard Crimson article . NO mental health problems are good but compared to the average college student and the average non student the average Harvard student is doing better
I am just using your data.
I dont know what data source the Boston Globe is using. Maybe you can tell us please