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<p>Just wanted to point out that of the students admitted both to Stanford and an Ivy, only one school takes more than half, and that’s Harvard, with about a 60/40 split–seems pretty close to me. Stanford take 2/3 of the admits with Princeton, half with Yale, and the rest of the Ivies are negligible (i.e. Stanford takes almost all of them; not to mention MIT, where Stanford takes 2/3 of the cross-admits).</p>
<p>So clearly, most students happen to think that Stanford measures up pretty well against the Ivies.</p>
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<p>It’s better than the Ivies–notice that Stanford dominates every Ivy in top departments, # top faculty, etc. Harvard is a close second, though.</p>
<p>You mention regatta, when that’s pretty characteristic of the old-boy-type Ivies?</p>
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<p>When was Stanford not in the Pac-10? (Pac-12 now, by the way.)</p>
<p>Let’s not forget that Ivies also recruit heavily for sports; they have the same proportion of athletes. The difference? Stanford offers athletic scholarships, so it competes for–and wins–the best student-athletes (the ones who are the top students in academics and are also top athletes). The Ivies are left recruiting and lowering their standards for mediocre athletes who are either good or mediocre students. Or a good athlete who’s a mediocre student. Any way you cut it, the Ivies lose because of their no-athletic-scholarship agreement.</p>
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