CC experiment. I dare you all. "HPYCS"

RML
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:51:19 +0000

I gues it’s safe to assume that nearly everyone at Caltech, MIT and Stanford have also been admitted to either of them and HYP. Very rarelyw ould you meet someone at Columbia who has been admitted to HYPSMC. Columbia does not have the brand power that HYPSMC have. The best and the brightest, the cream of the crop… generally fancy HYPSMC admissions, but not always Columbia, obviously. Would you really go for columbia despite having acceptances from HYPSMC? I doubt it.



one of my best friends at columbia turned down caltech, smart kid, but also wanted to have a life, caltech’s yield is pretty low indicating that it is a fallback school for some applicants, even if the classes are incredible tough and the research top notch.

well, that’s just but one person. nearly everyone at Caltech has acceptances at any of HYPSM. Can’t say the same thing for Columbia - in general.



I wouldn’t call Columbia a fall back school for hypsm, many top private and public schools in the US see columbia being the 2nd or 3rd (sometimes the most) selective school with their students. My highschool graduated many into top 10 schools, columbia definitely took as small and as elite a proportion as hypsm, it was a reach for pretty much anyone applying. Cornell is sometimes called the fallback school because of how large it is, but even that is now difficult for anyone to say.

Well, i’m sure those students at UPenn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown and chicago would also claim something like that. But we are talking about generality. In general, Columbia is in a league below HYPSMC in academic prestige. Maybe columbia offers better undergraduate experience or better academic quality. I don’t know. what I’m aying is – it’s brand power is not in the league of HYPSMC. And it will probably not change in our life time.