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05-05-2008, 04:21 PM
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| I chose Stanford over HYPM, Amherst, and a couple others. I love Stanford.  | 
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05-05-2008, 07:39 PM
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#17 | | New Member
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| wow!! I know Stanford is great but you guys are giving up Harvard and Yale?? .....Now I love Stanford even MORE!!! | 
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05-05-2008, 11:42 PM
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| Cornell, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, Harvey Mudd | |
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05-05-2008, 11:53 PM
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| Yale, Princeton, MIT, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, UVA, Duke | |
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05-06-2008, 12:09 AM
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#20 | | Junior Member
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| nicely put 2blue...I agree with all of your points more or less. | |
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05-06-2008, 12:45 AM
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#21 | | Junior Member
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| For the people who turned to Harvard, what were your reasons for turning it down for Stanford? Hopefully attending Stanford University will allow me to get into Harvard Medical School--my dream graduate school! | |
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05-06-2008, 04:59 AM
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#22 | | Member
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| Dew, Quote: |
wow!! I know Stanford is great but you guys are giving up Harvard and Yale?? .....Now I love Stanford even MORE!!!
| Harvard is HARVARD. Yale is Yale. They are quite different. You should not group them together. Overall, Harvard is tied with Stanford in terms of quality of the departments. Harvard is better in medicine, while Stanford is much better in engineering and applied sciences. Yale is a little better than Stanford in law school, humanities (such as English and history). But Stanford is better than Yale in all the other departments, including all science departments, all engineering departments, business school, education school, medical school, plus social science fields like political science, psycology, sociology, and economics. So Stanford wins over Yale hands down. | |
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05-06-2008, 03:16 PM
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#23 | | Member
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| are you talking about graduate or undergraduate studies? | |
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05-07-2008, 05:20 PM
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#24 | | Member
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| graduate, because there is no undergraduate medicine program. | |
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05-08-2008, 02:46 AM
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#25 | | Member
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| I'm talking about both graduate and undergraduate. If a school has a great department for graduate study and has an undergraduate program in that department, that department almost surely is great for undergraduate study. If you check the US news graduate school rankig and undergraduate ranking for business and engineering, you will be convinced about this. Yale is no exception. | |
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05-08-2008, 03:15 PM
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#26 | | Junior Member
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| If rankings are so important, don't forget that Yale has consistently out-ranked Stanford in U.S. News & World Report as well as in the Times Higher Education Supplement World Rankings (and by a wide margin in the latter). | |
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05-09-2008, 05:12 AM
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#27 | | Member
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| THES ranking is a joke.
Stanford is ranked higher than Yale in Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghi Jiao-ton University and in a global universty ranking by Newsweek.
See Academic Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and Newsweek ranks the World's Top 100 Global Universities
Stanford has a much more distinguished faculty than Yale by any measure. No matter you look at the membershp in national academies: NAS, NAE, and IOM, or look at the top notched academic awards such as Nobel prize, national medal of science, Turing prize, and Wolf prize, Stanford beats Yale by a large margin. | |
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05-09-2008, 06:17 AM
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#28 | | Junior Member
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| which one is more respected and reliable?
IMO THES is way too inconsistent | |
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05-09-2008, 06:19 AM
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#29 | | Junior Member
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| oh my bad there are actually three rankings!!
so yea...among the three, which one is more widely recognized? | |
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05-09-2008, 03:31 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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| THES ranking = waaaay too inconsistent Quote: |
don't forget that Yale has consistently out-ranked Stanford in U.S. News & World Report
| By about 1 spot.
Then look at all the other rankings where Stanford outranks Yale (NRC, Newsweek, Washington Monthly, etc.). | |
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