Has Stanford dethroned Harvard for most prestigious university?

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Anonymous wrote:The big Taco Bell campus in Palo Alto didn't do it for me, but I'm sure the weather is nice.

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Didn't it start out as a junior college started by a railroad owner as the country was expanding Westward? Maybe that and the Mexican influence and climate are the reasons they chose that style of architecture.

Never was a junior college. The dude was a junior as in his dad was Leland Stanford senior.

I've always thought it funny that my diploma says "The Leland Stanford, Junior University". Certainly detracts a little from the prestige, lol. Have they changed them? And, to answer your question, no - Harvard still has too many years of history and name recognition to be overtaken by Stanford in the prestige game.

[Anonymous]

Don't you just pity people who don't attend elite colleges? Their lives must be sadly empty of anything worthwhile.

[Anonymous]

Has California dethroned New York as the most prestigious place to live and work? These questions are silly, it is simply a case of six of one, half dozen of the other, an apples-to-apples (or, more apropos of Stanford, oranges-to-oranges).

[Anonymous]

Harvard's reputation -- especially internationally -- is secure from a broad reach over many years with a huge endowment. But that reach -- overseas and here -- is increasingly recognized as being a function of its graduate programs. Stanford -- like Yale and Princeton -- enjoys a stronger reputation as an undergraduate institution domestically. Overseas, I think that distinction is usually lost.

[Anonymous]

There is not enough money for me to make ANY collegiate decisions based on posters....good, bad, or indifferent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous[b wrote:]Has California dethroned New York as the most prestigious place to live and work? [/b] These questions are silly, it is simply a case of six of one, half dozen of the other, an apples-to-apples (or, more apropos of Stanford, oranges-to-oranges).

the trend post financial crisis has been yes. SF and DC are hotter cities for young grads IMO.

[Anonymous]

Computer revolution. Stanford is the flagship. And MIT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous[b wrote:]Has California dethroned New York as the most prestigious place to live and work? [/b] These questions are silly, it is simply a case of six of one, half dozen of the other, an apples-to-apples (or, more apropos of Stanford, oranges-to-oranges).

the trend post financial crisis has been yes. SF and DC are hotter cities for young grads IMO.

I agree. NYC has lost its momentum as being the financial center after 911 and economic crisis. Many businesses have left the city for NJ and beyond. Stocks can be traded on-line. Even NY stock exchange is owned by the Germans. Who wants to live in a cold dirty crowded place with expensive real estate if there are no jobs to support it? NYC = Dinosaur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It certainly seems like it. All the bright students I know want to go to Stanford. As for Harvard, not so much.

Keep dreaming.

[Anonymous]

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It's an open secret that the top 3 universities keep their top rankings because US News makes it happen that way. It's a mutually beneficial agreement.
While you're pondering that, please also realize that US News boots out from the rankings any university that does not comply with its demand for info to fill in its criteria. Some (prestigious) universities have refused to play, claiming rankings are skewed too far towards certain non-academic criteria, and that the top spots are always reserved anyway.
Lastly, all participating universities end up fudging the numbers. All of them.

This is why the Shanghai academic world rankings are much more respected worldwide . Times of London is graded by peer universities as well US news is a well known racquet .

[Anonymous]

This is really splitting hairs. Maybe more kids from DC want to go to Stanford to put a continent of distance between them and their nutty parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is really splitting hairs. Maybe more kids from DC want to go to Stanford to put a continent of distance between them and their nutty parents.

And this nutty area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The big Taco Bell campus in Palo Alto didn't do it for me, but I'm sure the weather is nice.

+1

Didn't it start out as a junior college started by a railroad owner as the country was expanding Westward? Maybe that and the Mexican influence and climate are the reasons they chose that style of architecture.

Never was a junior college. The dude was a junior as in his dad was Leland Stanford senior.

I've always thought it funny that my diploma says "The Leland Stanford, Junior University". Certainly detracts a little from the prestige, lol. Have they changed them? And, to answer your question, no - Harvard still has too many years of history and name recognition to be overtaken by Stanford in the prestige game.

No funnier a name than Harvard's legal one "President and Fellows of Harvard College." Some may think it suggests an all-male sex ring, but I don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is really splitting hairs. Maybe more kids from DC want to go to Stanford to put a continent of distance between them and their nutty parents.

And this nutty area.

And because Palo Alto's weather is a lot nicer than Boston's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Harvard's reputation -- especially internationally -- is secure from a broad reach over many years with a huge endowment. But that reach -- overseas and here -- is increasingly recognized as being a function of its graduate programs. Stanford -- like Yale and Princeton -- enjoys a stronger reputation as an undergraduate institution domestically. Overseas, I think that distinction is usually lost.

Especially in China and Korea.