<p>Okay, while making that index, I was just trying to get rid of the “fan” from Harvardfan, maybe MITfan now since he is going to MIT now. I think that Samual C.C. Ting of MIT is as active as Myron S. Scholes, William Sharpe, A. Michael Spence of Stanford who can still drive 20 miles, instead of walk 2 miles. </p>
<p>@Baelor, Stanford has been in California for over 100 years. The surge of applications does happen overnight. Check the numbers of class of 2011 and class 2012, they were not far different from Princeton’s. That Princeton chose to have no SECA along with Harvard was Princeton’s choice. Harvard still has about the same yield but not Princeton. What you mentioned were Princeton’s problems. That is why a lot of people at Princeton want to change that. They have a little higher yield compared with last year’s simply could be the reason they put more people on their paylist, like Harvard did. Next time when Princeton tries to use eating contest to judge applicants, do we call Princeton a pear? No hard feelings, Princeton is a great institution. One of friends’ kid will attend Princeton (over MIT). He has 132 @AMC12, and 10 @AIME. But one of the people on Stanford’s board who argued with you or farady before, the person qualified USAMO at the 8th grade. The thing I don’t like Princeton is the limited study area selection. I actually like Columbia better in that sense, for the schools around me. </p>
<p>I was trying to factor in the SAT scores, just did not know how to make it right. Seems that I know now: the absolute scores mean less for the differences among HYPS, you will get the similar results as Y/A. But I think the z-scores might work, give me some time and I will try to find out.</p>