Harvard vs. Stanford

Excursions
Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:54:55 +0000

I’m still laughing at Harvard being “lightyears” ahead of Stanford in biology. As if Harvard has learned to grow people from dirt or something. Also, how is the number of Nobel laureates present/teaching at the school, by itself, relevant? It sounds cool, but last I checked, Isaiah Thomas was pretty much a disaster of a coach. If you are one of the very few actually faced with this decision, I can’t imagine any (even discernible?) difference in the strength of the programs outweighing the other factors that shape the fundamental differences between the schools.