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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no doubt that HYPSM opens all the doors. The people doing all the hiring are of an older generation and might still believe there'a meritocracy going on. Times change.

But let's break it down. Yale has clearly lost the plot over the past twenty years. Invested nothing into engineering or computer science. Their business school is a certification program for rich foreigners. It's DEI Central. Yale students get very upset when a grown-up suggests they are responsible for their own Halloween costumes. And they will destroy anyone for any reason at all. Sounds pleasant.

Harvard is all in with the Jared Kushner model. Sprinkle a few talented kids to hide the absolute douchebaggery of most students. Everyone is connected. Country club school. Easy classes and easy grades. Mediocre. Rich kid school. As opposed to smart kid school.

I will pause here for a moment and say I have insomnia and I'm looking for distractions.

Princeton. They're trying. All those resources. Fantastic financial aid. Pretty good in STEM. The Eating Clubs are not great but I get how they're trying to keep traditions while modernizing. Princeton is rolling with things in a smart way. It's not for everyone. But I am pro-Princeton. If you can get in, go for it.

What the hell is wrong with Stanford? It used to be the cool school. We're a Stanford family. But anyone that went there in the 90s or earlier wouldn't recognize it today. Cold. Lifeless. Scared. It's the North Korea of academia today. Lifeless drones marching off to Sand Hill. Pathetic.

MIT is alright. They're not messing around. They actually require tests scores. Your legacy or family name doesn't matter. Good stuff. But it's a really difficult place for a lot of students. Not a MIT student. But used to socialize. It's not a wonderful campus. And you can feel the pressure. When an MIT student chooses to party, they are unleashing a lot of pressure. Not healthy, but in fairness the MIT students I knew were in fraternities.

So the point of this is that Northeastern is the best school. Obviously. [/quote]

This has some fair points, but Harvard still tends to accept many academically-oriented legacies and athletes. There are many other schools where the less academic legacies and athletes end up but Harvard gets to pick who they want. Of course there are some knuckleheads but that's true of any school outside of MIT and Caltech. IMO right now it's H &gt; PSM &gt; Caltech Yale Duke Penn Columbia &gt; Brown Chicago Northwestern Hopkins Williams Amherst Swarthmore Pomona[/quote]
It should be M&gt;=S&gt;H&gt;P&gt;Y.[/quote]
That other school in Cambridge, come on? Maybe a few departments but no way at the university-wide level.[/quote]
You have no idea of what you're talking about. Harvard is overrated and filled with weak ALDC. MIT dominates Harvard for the "few" departments. It's actually much more than a few[/quote]

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