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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good thing nobody cares what one highly opinionated parent/grad/random bully on a mom's website thinks about Duke or Columbia or Chicago or anything else.

Seriously? Duke is *exactly* better than ABC (pick 3 schools) but worse than XYZ (pick three other schools)? And Caltech is "ranked higher" than Columbia--even though it's actually ranked lower in USNWR--and U Chicago (currently ranked #3 in USNWR) couldn't possibly be the "C" in HYPSMC either?

PP's can continue quibbling about Duke and whether CalTech is "better" than everyone else. (I too had always heard the "C" was Chicago or Columbia. CalTech is like Juilliard or Cooper Union, all fabulous schools that are very hard to get into, but more specialized and so they aren't generally put up against broader universities.)

The rest of us will help our qualified kids pick elite schools based on fit: liberal arts vs STEM, frats vs no frats, strong or not-so-strong athletics, and so on.[/quote]

HYPSMC is very rarely used, but when it is used it does refer to Caltech. Caltech is a niche school but it is top and extremely prestigious at that niche. I have never heard of Columbia or Chicago as being the C in HYPSMC, and I don't see why they would anyway. They do not have the prestige level or the strength of HYPSM in any field. Chicago being #3 at USNews is also laughable, no one is buying that. USNews is important but not the authority on how people view top schools.  [/quote]

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