<p>@TheBanker,
Just to be clear, I don’t think that UChicago will be surpassing HYPSM anytime soon either (I was thinking more along the lines of just entering the elite group, which probably wont happen within the decade at the very least). </p>
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While I wouldn’t award them as much importance as the international rankings allegedly do, graduate school strength is a good indication of overall scholarly quality of an institution. </p>
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Some have. Regardless, the marketing would be largely ineffective for HYPS and M. These schools have reached a sort of popularity saturation point and are all frequently referenced in popular media to become household names. Chicago, however, had the “advantage” of having been generally unknown, and I’ve heard of several students who hadn’t heard of the school until receiving mailings from them…</p>
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This is a genuine concern. While I couldn’t care less about this (massive) omittance (I may even prefer it, personally), I can see how the absence of an engineering school can hurt the universities future prospects…</p>