<p>I can’t speak to which school has the bigger name–Yale and Stanford are both amazing schools–but as a student at Stanford, I can definitely say that students feel like it’s the school the present and of the future. Regardless of what school has higher cross admit rates, and regardless of what school has a lower acceptance rate, I don’t think any school in the United States is on an upward trend more than Stanford is. There’s a reason that Harvard is being called the Stanford of the East (<a href=“Riding Technology Wave, Stanford Rises to Top of Some Measures - The New York Times”>Riding Technology Wave, Stanford Rises to Top of Some Measures - The New York Times); there’s a reason the Crimson (Harvard’s newspaper) is feeling the pressure and trying to defend Harvard’s honor against Stanford, not Yale (<a href=“The Harvard Crimson”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/30/stanford-vs-harvard/</a>); and there’s a reason that Stanford is all over the news. Like I said, they’re both amazing schools, but if you want the chance to go to the school that’s indisputably going to be known as the “best in the world” in five or ten years, apply to Stanford.</p>