<p>Byerly -- a simple, honest question. Why do you hang out on the Yale board more than you do on the Harvard board?</p>
<p>Pebbles: "Princeton has very recently risen to high prestigious heights" "I just don't know enough about Stanford to make any sort of a comment, but I'd imagine that being all the way on the west coast and not a part of the ivy league would separate the school quite a bit from Harvard/Yale."</p>
<p>what? These are quite possibly the most retarded things i have ever heard. First off, Princeton has long been established as being just as good as Harvard and Yale. The Big Three? HYP? Theres a reason why they intercompete in athletics so much, they all go waaaay back. Keep in mind, the Princeton-Yale football rivalry is older than the Harvard-Yale one. Princeton has long been prestigious and I don't know where you just pulled that statement out of. In fact, aside from the past year, Princeton has also always been more selective than Yale as well. </p>
<p>Second, the fact that Stanford isn't part of the ivy league doesn't make it any less of a school than Harvard, Yale or Princeton. In fact, unlike Harvard and Yale, Stanford has great engineering in addition to normal liberal arts. Stanford has established itself quite well as a more than able competitor to HYP.</p>
<p>Not to draw any hate posts but reading all this crap on the Yale forum has made me quite happy about my college choice.</p>
<p>You're very defensive, "pimpdaddy". I was speaking of the opinions of the general public, and yes, it is only over the past 20 years or so that the public's eyes have been opened to Princeton University. Of course, the educated crowd has always considered Princeton among the top, but please, living in the real world here, no one outside of college forums ever use "big three" or "HYP".</p>
<p>And you misinterpreted my comment on Stanford completely, I was talking about associating colleges with each other. When people say "Yale", you think of "Harvard"; when people say "Harvard", very few think "Stanford". But I don't have time to argue with you right now so I'll leave it at that. And please, none of that judgmental, arrogant crap from you too.</p>
<p>You don't have a very firm handle on what the "general public" thinks, pebbles.</p>
<p>I call your attention to the last two biennial Gallup polls, in which the "general public" - and college graduates separately - are asked to name what they think is "America's best college or university." While Harvard is clearly the first choice, the clear second choice of most Americans is ..... Stanford.</p>
<p>Sigh, "no one outside of college forums ever use "big three" or "HYP""</p>
<p>HYP is an annual crew meet between the three schools.
Big Three was coined after the original athletic agreement between Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the early 1900s (the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Presidents' Agreement of 1916). </p>
<p>I'm not arguing with you, I personally like Yale quite a bit, I just think this whole argument is pretty stupid. For every poll stat that Byerly pulls out, I'm sure you can pull one out that says the exact opposite. Maybe this says something?</p>
<p>"but please, living in the real world here, no one outside of college forums ever use "big three" or "HYP".</p>
<p>Pebbles, that's such understatement. HYP is use so much outside of discussion forums. You think only you are living in the read world? Please.
And what's up with your 800+ post? Who spends all their life on CC posting once every 5 seconds and each post I read of yours were like paragraphs that it even hurts my eyes to read. And don't act like you are authority all the time either. Most things you say are worthless, they are merely cliched statements that everyone knows about. Everyone knows what the public thinks and why most people choose harvard. Everyone knows that prestigious is not the most important thing. You don't need to spend hours arguing to make you sound like you know everything when you don't.</p>
<p>Find something to do on your spare time.</p>
<p>You know this is weird.....they use GMT time which is Greenwich Mean Time...where is this site based? GMT time is when the sun passes over the Prime Meridian in England.</p>
<p>Hot_Ice has a good point</p>
<p>It's all personal preference. The end</p>
<p>No need to waste paragraphs to make that point.</p>
<p>sorry for that last post.....i just had another weird moment.</p>
<p>I prefer to recall the wise, old adage: Harvard sucks and Princeton doesn't matter.</p>
<p>Ouch, sting.</p>
<p>The answer:
<a href="http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2001/blue/p52sucks.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2001/blue/p52sucks.html</a></p>
<p>"Yale students have a complex. It isn't a clear-cut complex either. With regard to pretty much every university in the country, we adopt an unjustified sense of superiority thanks to our affiliation with the Big Y. Then Harvard comes around and we start throwing around petty insults, a posture that belies a strange inferiority complex when it comes to our neighbor to th"e north."</p>
<p>"As a recent alum of the former school (Harvard) and a new graduate student at the latter (Yale), I've been amazed at the one-sided nature of this supposed rivalry. At Harvard, few people ever mentioned Yale, let alone in a competitive spirit. Yet here, and on the pages of this publication in particular, more attention is paid to the Cambridge counterparts than is healthy or appropriate. It is rare to read an entire issue of the News without coming across the word "Harvard." I can assure this paper's readers that Harvard's daily, The Crimson, mentions Yale far less frequently.</p>
<p>I think the explanation for this phenomenon is as simple for Harvard kids to understand as it is painful for Yalies to hear. Harvard is better, plain and simple. If Harvard-Yale was a sibling rivalry, Harvard would be the older, more successful and accomplished child. Yale, on the other hand, would be the modestly talented younger sibling who has grown up, ever envious, in the shadow of its older brother. With the 120th playing of The Game upon us, Yale students would do well to realize and accept their perpetual inferiority and move on with their lives."</p>
<p>Oy, you've made your point Byerly, repeatedly. Now move on. "Perpetual inferiority" is definitely too strong of a statement for two schools so closely matched.</p>
<p>ok heres the deal with harvard and yale.</p>
<p>-yale rules.
-harvard sucks. they even said it themselves at The Game- <a href="http://www.harvardsucks.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.harvardsucks.org</a></p>
<p>Nice goin' Crimson</p>
<p>And 4 years in a row, too!</p>
<p>please tell me that the f a crimson is anyway</p>
<p>I think i'll reiterate and add on to what someone said before, Byerly, because it wasn't paid enough attention. Harvard is ranked #1 and Yale #2. So why would Harvardians feel the need to constantly bash on Yale when they know they're number one? What could they possibly gain from it, besides an even more heightened ego? Nothing.*Yes, Yalies constantly bash on Harvard because YALE IS NUMBER TWO! Simple as that. Call me crazy, but maybe Yalies have some sort of inferiority complex and feel like the only way to not feel SO inferior to Harvard is to just be Harvard-bashing Yalemongers. So what? Who cares? YOU'RE NUMBER ONE! Get over yourself. It's not a one-sided rivalry like you're trying to make it out to be. Havardians *do bash on Yale, and a few articles have been presented by other people showing that. I hope you read the one posted by all that glitters (thanks Justine). And if you feel like refuting that, Byerly, go ahead, because you're going to end up making yourself look even sillier... if that's at all possible.</p>