When did Harvard and Yale become Harvard and Stanford?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has outclassed Yale for at least a decade now. New Haven cannot compete with the brains and opportunities of Silicon Valley.

I'd love to hear the opinions of all the students that were accepted to Stanford, Yale, and Harvard.

Is there one?

Or is this just another hypothetical discussion among clueless parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has outclassed Yale for at least a decade now. New Haven cannot compete with the brains and opportunities of Silicon Valley.

I'd love to hear the opinions of all the students that were accepted to Stanford, Yale, and Harvard.

Is there one?

Or is this just another hypothetical discussion among clueless parents?

Use your friend Google and look at statistics. Stanford has a lower acceptance rate than Yale and a higher average SAT score than Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has outclassed Yale for at least a decade now. New Haven cannot compete with the brains and opportunities of Silicon Valley.

I'd love to hear the opinions of all the students that were accepted to Stanford, Yale, and Harvard.

Is there one?

Or is this just another hypothetical discussion among clueless parents?

I love Yale but most kids like Stanford or Harvard more.

[Anonymous]

My guess is that the students at all of these schools are all amazing and many applied to more than one of these schools.

Stanford shot up due to Silicon Valley and you cannot beat a school where students wear shorts year round.

California and Asian Americans are more heavily represented at Stanford, but that's likely due to self-selection more than anything else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has been the school of choice for students on the west coast for decades now

Not true anymore. MIT is considered #1.

wrong

In Silicon Valley MIT is definitely "more elite" than Stanford. People in SV value very high SAT scores, don't value athletics, and don't like legacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has been the school of choice for students on the west coast for decades now

Not true anymore. MIT is considered #1.

wrong

In Silicon Valley MIT is definitely "more elite" than Stanford. People in SV value very high SAT scores, don't value athletics, and don't like legacy.

What’s your source for that? I’ve worked in Silicon Valley and felt differently. Sounds like an opinion that you’re confusing with a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford and Harvard are in nice areas.

food in new haven is superior to PA and Cambridge

stanford especially feels like going to school at a taco bell. It's mega cringe when you walk around.

stanford is definitely the most overrated t10 campus experience.

Only pizza and you have to walk to Wooster Street for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has been the school of choice for students on the west coast for decades now

Not true anymore. MIT is considered #1.

wrong

In Silicon Valley MIT is definitely "more elite" than Stanford. People in SV value very high SAT scores, don't value athletics, and don't like legacy.

What’s your source for that? I’ve worked in Silicon Valley and felt differently. Sounds like an opinion that you’re confusing with a fact.

Source: parents (including some who went to HYPS) that live in SV. Stanford might be more popular than MIT (because it is closer to home, more interesting social scene, etc). But MIT graduate is more respected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has outclassed Yale for at least a decade now. New Haven cannot compete with the brains and opportunities of Silicon Valley.

I'd love to hear the opinions of all the students that were accepted to Stanford, Yale, and Harvard.

Is there one?

Or is this just another hypothetical discussion among clueless parents?

Use your friend Google and look at statistics. Stanford has a lower acceptance rate than Yale and a higher average SAT score than Yale.

oh, puhleeze - a .5 percent difference. They are apples and oranges - you can't use a crude comparison like that. For example, Stanford receives 57,326 applications for a larger class than Yale. Yale receives 47,240. That doesn't mean Stanford is "better". This is not at all surprising, since there is only one Stanford on the West Coast, whereas the East Coast has Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and so on. Students aiming for the East Coast have many more options than the West Coast and spread their applications around.

[Anonymous]

They have different characters to them. Which one suits your child best? I went to one of them and had zero interest in the other two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford has outclassed Yale for at least a decade now. New Haven cannot compete with the brains and opportunities of Silicon Valley.

I'd love to hear the opinions of all the students that were accepted to Stanford, Yale, and Harvard.

Is there one?

Or is this just another hypothetical discussion among clueless parents?

Use your friend Google and look at statistics. Stanford has a lower acceptance rate than Yale and a higher average SAT score than Yale.

oh, puhleeze - a .5 percent difference. They are apples and oranges - you can't use a crude comparison like that. For example, Stanford receives 57,326 applications for a larger class than Yale. Yale receives 47,240. That doesn't mean Stanford is "better". This is not at all surprising, since there is only one Stanford on the West Coast, whereas the East Coast has Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and so on. Students aiming for the East Coast have many more options than the West Coast and spread their applications around.

Isn't there a big difference in yield though? About 70% vs 85%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale has always been behind the times in terms of STEM, but honestly I doubt that's a complete explanation given their extraordinary resources and given that STEM is not seen as particularly highbrow anyway. One striking attribute of their students is how emo and emotionally unwell they seem (along with physically unwell, if we're being totally honest), compared to other ivies and non-ivy elite privates (stanford, duke, etc.). What happened, exactly?

OP, it never became "Harvard and Stanford". Please submit a cite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford and Harvard are in nice areas.

food in new haven is superior to PA and Cambridge

stanford especially feels like going to school at a taco bell. It's mega cringe when you walk around.

stanford is definitely the most overrated t10 campus experience.

You obviously never lived in New Haven, or if you did, didn’t venture out much
Only pizza and you have to walk to Wooster Street for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale had a little disaster a decade or so ago when a video went viral of students being vicious to a residential house professor. Something to do with students being responsible for their Halloween costumes out of all things. And these students were all POC - so people made all the assumptions. Fragile. Delicate. Stupid. DEI admits.

And it is true that Yale was behind when it comes to STEM for undergrad.

But since then, Yale has really gotten it together. My random opinion is that Yale undergrad today is a much better experience than Harvard or Stanford.

I’d really only say this is for stupid stuff like “experience” aka wasting time socially. Actual opportunities to excel and be a leader in a field are worse at Yale unless you’re into history. Stanford dominates the tech space and has a lot of innovative campus culture, Harvard still holds firm with finance but has found itself creeping further in the realm of mathematics and engineering while still being THE place for biochemical research. Yale…meh, there’s Yale law (which has been tied with Stanford for years now) and not much else.

Some people like being happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford and Harvard are in nice areas.

food in new haven is superior to PA and Cambridge

stanford especially feels like going to school at a taco bell. It's mega cringe when you walk around.

stanford is definitely the most overrated t10 campus experience.

Only pizza and you have to walk to Wooster Street for it.

It's well worth a walk. There's no better food than pizza for college students or anyone else for that matter.