<p>randy5, i’m not saying columbia is a bad school. I think it’s a great school or one of the greatest in the world. I even applied there. all i’m saying is – it is not in the league of HYPSMC in terms of brand power, that’s why I don’t think the accronym will change as the OP suggested. Truthfully, I may even suspect that Columbia offers better academic teaching than some of the HYPSMC. But that is not what we are talking about. I was talking about the brand power of Columbia’s name, which is not on par with HYPSMC. </p>
<p>As for the math olympiad thing, it was only an example. Of course “beast students” aren’t limitted to those math or physics olympiad kids.</p>