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<p>This is not “my” NRC ranking. It’s a Princeton grad’s interpretation of the NRC results.</p>
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<p>I don’t necessarily endorse the Princeton alum’s (pro-Princeton) spin on things. My point is that he would have no reason to be biased in favor of Yale over Chicago. That said, the Princeton alum did group Stanford and Princeton together, so he probably doesn’t (despite his Princeton bias) think that Princeton is clearly superior to Stanford. </p>
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<p>Based on the Princeton alum’s separate groupings, he’d probably say so. I tend to agree that Berkeley and Stanford’s academics are, on the whole, stronger than Yale and Columbia’s. For the STEM fields, there’s no contest. </p>
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<p>IMNSHO, while Yale is superior to Chicago, it is indeed overrated relative to HPSM (especially in the sciences). It’s generally acknowledged that Yale’s academics don’t quite have the breadth of HS and the depth of HPSM. This is, for example, reflected by Yale’s slightly lower Peer Assessment ¶ score compared to HPSM.</p>