<p>It’s been rising in the rankings over the past few decades. It’s gaining in prestige. It’s not viewed in the same way today as it was viewed 200 years ago. </p>
<p>And now that Columbia is looking so great…well, doesn’t it seem fitting that the best University in America would be in its most famous city? </p>
<p>When you ask any random person what is the absolute best college in America, 90% of the time the answer is going to be Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know, I know, people will get all defensive and say “no no! That’s subjective! You can’t say there’s a ‘best’ university!”</p>
<p>Sure, and you could probably even find someone who’d point to some random community college and say it’s better than Harvard.</p>
<p>But we all know Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are the best, and everything else is below them. You can try to deny that as much as you want, and say that these “ideas” of what’s the best and what isn’t are subjective, but that’s not going to make it any less true.</p>
<p>In this current day and age, HYP are dominant. That’s a fact. But it wasn’t always like that in the past, and it won’t always be like that in the future. </p>
<p>That’s what I’m speculating about - what might it look like in the future.</p>