<p>Bephy,</p>
<p>The two C’s are gaining quickly on Stanford in terms of student body and faculty and given their locations in NYC and Chicago it would not be surprising if they equal and surpass Stanford in a few years. In light of the NYC project, Cornell will also gain quickly on Stanford in the hard sciences and Duke is already a Stanford peer in medicine, law, and banking. </p>
<p>Further, in the East, Stanford is not viewed as the end all and be all that it is in the west. As the New Yorker noted in a recent article, people are starting to question whether academics have been left behind in the “entrepreneurial culture” of Stanford where adjuncts (good at founding start ups but not so good at teaching anything) teach many classes.</p>