Princeton vs Yale vs Columbia

harvard_and_berkeley
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 03:29:00 +0000

Where do people get these silly ideas that Yale will be easier to get higher grades compared to peer institutions? The data/evidence is pretty flimsy… Oh I’m sure you could dig up some obscure stat that says the average GPA is some 0.1 points higher at Yale compared to, say, Columbia… but that average across a whole university is meaningless without factoring in the different ratios of different majors… and even if there was a statistically slight difference, it has no bearing on any particular individual student.

Please, let’s pretend that “critical thinking skills” matters.