Did any of you chose Stanford over Harvard this year?

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Even though the Stanford website lists 16 current faculty Nobels, only 4 are active and truly Stanford faculty. They are Robert Laughlin (Physics), Douglass Osheroff (Physics), Andrew Fire (Pathology and Genetics, who was actually denied admission to Stanford for undergraduate study, and forced to study in UCB, and recruited to Stanford after the award), Roger Kornberg (Biochemistry).

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<p>Are you sure only these 4 are active? By the way, Andrew Fire had been recruited to Stanford before he won his Nobel prize in 2007.</p>

<p>I don’t think Nobel prize is a great metric for quality. But it does add prestige to a university. I would argue that the membership in US national academies (NAS, NAE, IOM) is a better metric for faculty quality, because about half of the academy members are still active. In that regard, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley are the 4 giants in USA. Each of them has more than 200 academy members, well ahead the other universities. That is why they have the best graduate schools.</p>