<p>I was wondering why we don't hear about Dartmouth, UPenn or even Cornell as much as, say, Yale or Harvard. Also, why are their endowments so (relatively) low and their admissions so (again, relatively) high? Are they not on the same caliber? Do they offer something different than HYP?</p>
<p>why don’t you suggest why YOU think this is so, OP.</p>
<p>Because I have no idea? If I knew anything about this, I wouldn’t be posting on this forum. </p>
<p>Well, I’m going to expand this to a number of non-HYPSM schools:</p>
<p>Caltech, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn, and Wash U all get less press than, say, HYPSM or Hopkins because they a) have a weaker presence in media than HYP, b) have less directly exciting things coming out (like Robotics at MIT, medicine at Hopkins, or various startups at S), or c) have a relatively small amount of research exiting, even if that research is high-quality (Caltech). Is this changing? Yes, but at a glacial pace. Some schools (like Chicago/Dartmouth) have little engineering, which is a big visual draw for newspapers (because engineering is usually more exciting than political science).</p>
<p>Poor Brown–really left out of this discussion! :-/ </p>
<p>@kaarboer So it’s the activities/research that makes us hear less about them? But am I right in assuming Chicago/Dartmouth still have great political science (for example) programs and they just aren’t publicized as much as HYPSM?</p>
<p>@ItsJustSchool Well, Brown is close to an LAC; really, their departments are in research terms very weak, especially in headline-generating STEM subjects.</p>
<p>@merlion Yes and yes.</p>