<p>Please list 4 or 5 schools you think are the most similar to Harvard.</p>
<p>List them under whatever terms you deem most important.</p>
<p>Hmm… Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, MIT, Penn…</p>
<p>Cambridge oxford imperial austrailian and hong kong are similar to harvard</p>
<p>Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, CalTech</p>
<ul>
<li>Highest number of students with intellectual potential and special talents.</li>
<li>Best financial aid programs.</li>
<li>Most prestigious.</li>
</ul>
<p>Cal State Northridge, University of Wisconsin, Ecole des Chartes, Agnes Scott College, Bob Jones University</p>
<p>Yale, Stanford, Cambridge, Amherst, Williams</p>
<p>Hard to include MIT because of its narrower focus; breadth is part of what Harvard is all about. In Europe, Oxbridge, obviously, and in elitist tone certainly the Ecole Normale Superieur (Ulm), maybe the Freie Universitat (Berlin). Here, Yale is a practical twin, Stanford is very similar in everything except style and atmosphere, and Penn, Columbia, and Chicago are all pretty much the same idea. Princeton and Brown also deserve mention, but because of their much smaller graduate/professional components there are a lot of differences. Berkeley is much, much larger, but apart from that very similar.</p>
<p>I’d say Columbia. They both have core curriculums (Harvard copied Columbia’s years back I believe), they’re both in a big city/high crime area, and they both have extensive graduate schools. OK Columbia is not ranked as highly as some others, but to me that’s only superficial.</p>
<p>Yale Princeton MIT Stanford UPenn</p>
<p>Harvard has elite professional schools across the board- I’d say the closest are </p>
<p>Stanford (Medicine #6, Business #2, Law #3)
UPenn (Medicine #3, Business #3, Law #7)
Yale (Medicine #6, Business #10, Law #1)
Columbia (Medicine #10, Business #9, Law #4)
UChicago (Medicine #13, Business #5, Law #6)</p>
<p>Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial</p>
<p>@anb (#8): Harvard’s Core Curriculum never remotely resembled Columbia’s, much less copied it, and starting with the class of 2013 it no longer officially exists (having been revised extensively and renamed).</p>
<p>In America the closest match is Yale, although I agree that Harvard has a lot in common with some other urban jack-of-all-trades universities such as Penn, Columbia, and Chicago.</p>
<p>Stanford is very different from Harvard. It lacks an urban campus and Harvard’s classical/European traditions.</p>
<p>Most of the suggestions above, with the exception of the obvious satire, are pretty reasonable. But a lot of times if you’re looking for a school similar to a top university, you’re looking for one whose admissions criteria may be a little more accessible. If that’s the case, I’d offer Georgetown. Trendy / quasi-urban locale adjacent to a major city with a subway system, 6500 undergrads, and a heavy focus and awareness on political and international issues.</p>
<p>Yale, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton</p>
<p>Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, UPenn</p>
<p>MIT is SO not like Harvard…</p>
<p>Harvard’s so focused on the humanities and MIT on the sciences and engineering i dont know why people think Harvard and MIT are alike except that they excel at particular fields…Yale does seem most like Harvard. Stanford is so well rounded…same for Princeton i think…Princeton is more math/science oriented in the Ivies (which isn’t saying much)</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale is identical to Harvard but without Cambridge.</li>
<li>Stanford is similar on paper, but feels completely different.</li>
<li>No one else.</li>
</ol>
<p>Harvard is hard to get into but easy to get out. So in this sense its admission is similar to most selective schools and the rest is similar to state universities.</p>
<p>^ more stating “facts” that you have no firsthand knowledge.</p>