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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HYP will always be known as HYP. While there are plenty of other top caliber universities-Stanford, MIT etc, HYP are still the top 3 Ivies in the general public’s mind and still considered world class for many programs. No place can be top in every program.[/quote]

Can anyone name a top 5 program at Yale outside of history, political science, and drama? That’s extremely weak for a school grouped with HPSM. Academically Yale is absolutely not up to par with the rest in that grouping. Outside of having a long history and a larger endowment, how is Yale better overall than say Columbia, UPENN, Duke for academic programs? HPSM on the other hand are clearly a step above the rest academically, Caltech too.[/quote]

Well according to Niche they are top 5 in the following: Anthropology , sociology, architecture, art, biology, economics, English (6th),  environmental science, film, foreign language, global affairs/international relations, history , math, philosophy, physics, psychology, religious studies. I’d say they’re holding their own with their peers.
Where they have not stood out in this STEM obsessed time we’re in is the hard sciences. But they’re pouring a lot of money into those departments right now. The kid I know who chose Yale over Caltech is super happy with his education and research opportunities. As to how they compare to Penn etc- who cares? These are all great schools. But they are only schools, not the promised land. What one does in the world with a degree is so much more important than the “ status” of the school and there are a million metrics for that anyway.[/quote]

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