<p>Just to set the record straight, my original post didn’t have any statements about students’ happiness at their respective schools (except for Harvard kids wondering if they were being abandoned by the administration and Cornell students dealing with the pressure).</p>
<p>It’s a well know fact (at least well reported) that Yale students enjoy their school immensely. And perhaps only Princeton alums are as fanatically loyal to their school.</p>
<p>Finally, Poster X - your statement about Yale re the sciences isn’t true. Not by a long shot. Yale has deep strengths in the biological sciences. But the top schools in the hard sciences overall (biological sciences, physics, chemistry, geology and perhaps mathematics) are w/o question Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CalTech and Harvard. President Levin has acknowledged that fact in several speeches [see “Yale’s Fourth Century”]. Check any US News report, the academic productivity stats published by Academic Analytics and the soon-to-be updated NSF data. Sorry, but your arguments on this point are in vain.</p>
<p>That said, Yale is my favorite Ivy. After Penn of course;-)</p>