When did Harvard and Yale become Harvard and Stanford?

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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.

This has to be an actual joke

I’ve lived in the Bay Area ( including Palo Alto when I was a student at Stanford) and had kid recently at Yale, can confirm New Haven is a terrific food town. I see why some people are impressed by Stanford campus, I certainly was when I first arrived. It lost its allure for me pretty quickly, especially once I saw Berkeley. I think people who love Stanford will probably also swoon over Princeton ( both in wealthy suburban enclaves) but that’s not the environment everyone wants. Based on my DD’s experience I’d take take Yale all day of the schools you mentioned

New Haven is nowhere near the level of food culture in SF, this is just ridiculous.

Look I get that New Haven has a few good pizza spots, but let’s not get delusional over it.

SF is one of the few US cities I've visited where there is more human feces on the streets than dog feces.

[Anonymous]

A huge bonus for SF is that you can inhale marijuana just walking on the streets. So you are saving some of your money that way going to Stanford.

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

Well, California family here with three generations of Stanford. And Stanford is shit these days precisely because of Silicon Valley.

But if Silicon Valley is your thing, go for it. Cold, soulless, and corporate - that is Stanford in 2025.

when did stanford actually become totally consummed by tech?

It's not.
Most students are not STEM.

But to answer your question, silicon valley has been around a long time since the Hewlett Packard days but the rise of the internet and the dotcoms is when it really kind of took over.

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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.

This has to be an actual joke

I’ve lived in the Bay Area ( including Palo Alto when I was a student at Stanford) and had kid recently at Yale, can confirm New Haven is a terrific food town. I see why some people are impressed by Stanford campus, I certainly was when I first arrived. It lost its allure for me pretty quickly, especially once I saw Berkeley. I think people who love Stanford will probably also swoon over Princeton ( both in wealthy suburban enclaves) but that’s not the environment everyone wants. Based on my DD’s experience I’d take take Yale all day of the schools you mentioned

New Haven is nowhere near the level of food culture in SF, this is just ridiculous.

Look I get that New Haven has a few good pizza spots, but let’s not get delusional over it.

You’re right, NH does not equal SF. But it’s also way way more than “a few good pizza spots.” That’s just silly provincialism. FWIW Palo Alto doesn’t equal SF either.

Or you could just say that New haven = NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford campus does look Taco Bell.

My first impression of the Stanford campus is "enormous" and "spread out".
https://youtu.be/-C5NwTjd-bI

You could fit 10 Princeton’s inside of Stanford and you’d still have space for 3 more!

I don't understand why they don't increase their class size.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford campus does look Taco Bell.

My first impression of the Stanford campus is "enormous" and "spread out".
https://youtu.be/-C5NwTjd-bI

You could fit 10 Princeton’s inside of Stanford and you’d still have space for 3 more!

I don't understand why they don't increase their class size.

Because they don't want to be like Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

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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.

The problem with Stanford is there is no real off campus life. Everything is so expensive because silicon valley is right there. So you are pretty much stuck with 4 years of on campus living.
If I could have gone to Harvard I would have and I would probably pick Princeton over Yale. I don't think Yale carries as much water as it used to, still a lot but I think it has been sitting on its laurels and it loses out to Princeton these days.

Some see the vibrant on-campus life a bonus.

[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?

Stanford did well and benefitted from proximity to Silicon Valley.

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Spouse and I are east coast undergrad and grad school graduates and moved to CA several years ago. We visited both Berkeley and Stanford recently and I preferred Berkeley. It just seemed a lot more vibrant and friendly and looked like the east coast schools we were used to. I didn’t get the best vibe at Stanford although it is Stanford and our kids would be lucky to be admitted.

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Anonymous wrote:Spouse and I are east coast undergrad and grad school graduates and moved to CA several years ago. We visited both Berkeley and Stanford recently and I preferred Berkeley. It just seemed a lot more vibrant and friendly and looked like the east coast schools we were used to. I didn’t get the best vibe at Stanford although it is Stanford and our kids would be lucky to be admitted.

What’s the purpose of this comment? We all know that Stanford doesn’t look like Harvard.

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And that's a good thing, not bad.

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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?

Accepted to Yale and Stanford. Didn't apply to Harvard - didn't interest me.

Chose Yale.

this is me too.

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The tech boom raised Stanford, concurrently the George w bush skull and bones stuff made many Americans associate Yale with smoke filled rooms comprised of the offspring of oligarchs.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Accepted to Yale and Stanford. Didn't apply to Harvard - didn't interest me.

Chose Yale.

this is me too.

Well done.

[Anonymous]

The question is not when Stanford surpassed Yale (and Princeton), but when it surpassed Harvard.

The top 6, in order:
Stanford
Harvard
MIT
CIT
Princeton
Yale