Questions for HYPSM alumni

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of feel like it should be HSYPM now, not HYPSM.

I think it should be just HSM. HSM shows up in the top 5 of most global rankings and contribute the most to academia in the US (+ Berkeley). Y and P are closer to Columbia and Caltech, the next rung of schools, more so than they are to HSM.

H is by itself, if you have to split the 5. SM are one rung down closer to the rest, can't match the perceived and real power H yields in the world.

Holy insufferable. I know a great kid heading for H...please tell me it is not full of people that are writing crap like the above post.

It is and that’s why I went to Yale. seriously , the Harvard kids were so smug and self congratulatory. Yale kids more quirky. Came down to that. And yes, it’s given me a lot of advantages. People see the degree and automatically assume you’re smart and competent.

But aren't you? I've never known a Yalie who wasn't smart and competent. I've known a few Harvard grads who were smart and extremely dull.

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All Yalies are smart and competent.

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of feel like it should be HSYPM now, not HYPSM.

I think it should be just HSM. HSM shows up in the top 5 of most global rankings and contribute the most to academia in the US (+ Berkeley). Y and P are closer to Columbia and Caltech, the next rung of schools, more so than they are to HSM.

That's about right based on my experience living overseas. P and Y are well-respected in the US but less well known abroad and their grad programs are less endowed than HSM, hence their international rankings dip. QS had Yale at #14, below Penn, and Princeton below Columbia at #20 this year. Just go abroad and ask how many people have heard of H/S vs Y/P and you'll get a good idea.

I am a Y/S grad who spent many years abroad.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my undergrad and grad credentials continue to impress people. I’m more than 20 years out and (other) people bring it up in a professional context. I never bring it up. I actually find it somewhat annoying since at 20 years out my accomplishments should stand for themselves, but big names continue to have some sort of impact (I’ve gotten negative comments, too).

I was a first generation student at HYP but I married someone who is a longtime family legacy - like his family have been going to the same HYP school since the 1800s. So we come at our view of sending our kids from different angles, but we both really hope our kids are able to be admitted and attend HYP. But if they don’t, that’s fine, I guess they can attend Stanford or MIT.

Sounds like they will be going to Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of feel like it should be HSYPM now, not HYPSM.

I think it should be just HSM. HSM shows up in the top 5 of most global rankings and contribute the most to academia in the US (+ Berkeley). Y and P are closer to Columbia and Caltech, the next rung of schools, more so than they are to HSM.

That's about right based on my experience living overseas. P and Y are well-respected in the US but less well known abroad and their grad programs are less endowed than HSM, hence their international rankings dip. QS had Yale at #14, below Penn, and Princeton below Columbia at #20 this year. Just go abroad and ask how many people have heard of H/S vs Y/P and you'll get a good idea.

I was in Europe a few weeks ago, talking to a professional with a STEM degree from a fine European university, and he was hazy about his good of a science school MIT is.

The moral: It’s hard to say anything about universities based on what people who aren’t that interested in universities say about them. Most people in the world are pretty clueless about universities.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t get into HYPSH but want the connections? Join a traditionally Ivy League frat like Alpha Delta Phi or St. Anthony’s Hall. Get a masters at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. With a Fletcher degree you can join the Harvard Club.

OOPS. I meant HYPSM.

I went to Harvard and have never heard of these frats. There's minimal Greek life at Harvard...

St. Anthony's used to be the fraternity equivalent at Columbia of a finals club at Harvard or Yale, or Ivy Club at Princeton. Not sure if it's still a big thing there. It had chapters at some other schools, but again don't know if they are active or carry any particular social weight.

Still is. A few years back they flew all of their pledges to Bilbao, Spain on a weekend for pledging. There's also ADP now, which has sort of emerged as a hispter counterweight to St. A's. Has an open rush process but just as exclusive. With Columbia cracking down on greek life, a lot of fraternities are going underground, buying up houses around campus so they don't have to rent from the school and listen to all its stupid rules.