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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me guess..either you or your kid goes to hypsm and you love the status quo.    The relative reputation of schools will shift back and forth. Stanford only rose recently and was nothing compared to Chicago in a prior period not too long ago.  The addition of MIT was also relatively recent as our society has shifted from the industrial to the Information Age.  Harvard and Yale are great humanities schools but their STEM is there basically to support rounding out a humanities curriculum.   UChicago has a world class undergraduate math department, math intensive economids and their computer science program is well grounded in AI and systems with more to come from the incoming Berkeley faculty.  its a very exciting time for the school.  it really doesn't mater what you think about the relative value of other schools.  The kids are getting a great education there and I would argue comparable for humanities and better for STEM.[/quote]

Stanford was pretty much part of HYPSM before, but it has risen ahead of Yale and Princeton in the past decade due to the rise of STEM and specifically tech. MIT is anything but a recent addition, it has been at the very forefront of engineering and science since forever.  Also it is laughable to say that Harvard is just a great humanities school. Their social and natural science departments are practically second to none. Plus the Harvard name is unmatched in terms of prestige.  I agree that their engineering lags though.

The status quo is there for a reason. Chicago is an excellent school but it [b]lacks the prestige/name recognition [/b]and frankly the strength of HYPSM.  It is not considered at the very very top of any field. A common characteristic of all the HYPSM schools is that each one is the undisputed top school in at least one field. Another is that their name is very prestigious and instantly recognized by most people. Another yet is that they have way more resources than the other schools. [/quote]

This is what's bothering you about the rise in rankings.    [/quote]

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