<p>@rbouwens:</p>
<p>This isn’t that surprising. Academic research talent in this country is much more broadly spread out than undergraduate prestige is. And different schools could have very strong departments in different fields for idiosyncratic reasons. So pretty much all the major research universities will have experts in one field or another.</p>
<p>I believe I said before that general “prestige” is a poor metric to use for almost anything.</p>