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The status quo is there for a reason. Chicago is an excellent school but it lacks the prestige/name recognition and frankly the strength of HYPSM.  It is not considered [b]at very very top of any field. [/b]A common characteristic of all the HYPSM schools is that each one is the [b]undisputed top school [/b]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]

You tried to make this exact same point on another thread, in connection with your ceaseless argument that the "C" in the beast called HYPSMC is actually CalTech and not UChicago or Columbia. A number of posters shot you down with specific examples where Columbia and UChicago were at the very top of their fields, better than HYP. Did you not read those posts?

I have zero connection tomUChocago, but in my profession, Economics, people are hard-put to declare a "top program" among UChicago, Harvard and Stanford. 
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In your profession you should now that the top economics schools are widely considered to be Harvard and MIT, with Stanford and Princeton coming right after. Chicago does not even enter the discussion of being amongst those very very top schools. It is in the next tier these days. 
What are the fields the Columbia and Chicago are the very top?  there are none. (it is not medicine , or law, or social sciences , or humanities, or business, or engineering , then what? )

I find it laughable that people try to shove places like Chicago down peoples throat. Until UChicago has SCEA, builds a huge endowment per student comparable to HYPSM, is indisputably recognized as the leader in at least one or more fields, has a name that is instantly recognizable like HYPSM, and is able to win the cross-admit battle with all the non-HYPSM schools,  then it is not part of that super elite group. [/quote]

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