<p>iamtbh, your arguments are all wrong.</p>
<p>Let’s take them in reverse order:
-Secret societies are for SENIORS ONLY and they are SECRET–to claim that they are a big part of campus life is just downright false. Also, fyi, they now practice aff. action and are really diverse.
-Yale has some of the greatest if not the greatest Chinese partnerships of any American university. I encourage you to look not only at Yale’s many many programs in China but President Levin’s own bio:</p>
<p>“President Levin has focused considerable attention on China as the University’s internationalization efforts have developed. He has traveled to China 12 times in the last eight years, including a trip in May 2007, where, at the invitation of China’s President Hu Jintao, he led a group of 100 Yale students and faculty members on an historic visit. President Levin met in 2008 with several key members of the latest generation of senior Chinese leaders. In 2001, he chose to give his Tercentennial Address on “The Global University” on the campus of Peking University, and he met with China’s then-President Jiang Zemin in Beijing. In subsequent conversations with senior governmental officials, Yale was selected to sponsor an Advanced University Leadership Program for the presidents and vice presidents of China’s leading universities. That program has been held each summer since 2004. In addition, Yale was chosen to sponsor an executive education program for the most senior cohort of Chinese governmental officials to study outside the country; that program was devoted to exploring how the Rule of Law could be further extended in China and was held on Yale’s campus in June 2005, 2006 and 2007.”</p>
<p>The “pacific rim” thing is not just silly; it sounds like something from WWII LOLLLL.</p>
<p>-“Being by far the youngest of HYPS, Stanford is much more willing to take risks and try new ideas.” Age does not have much to do with willingness to try new ideas–really!!! Stanford was nicely positioned for the “tech boom” since it was in Silicon Valley – but it is NOT the CAUSE of the tech boom. Merely because it did well in the Dot-Com era has nothing to do with whether it will do well in the next boom. Yale has been pretty active too in looking forward. (E.g. the west campus: [Yale</a> University | West Campus | History](<a href=“Welcome | Yale West Campus”>Welcome | Yale West Campus).)
-As for my athlete comment being elitist, all I have to say to that is “touche.”</p>
<p>Your arguments are perpetuating myths. When I try to distinguish b/w schools, I try to do so in a fair manner. You ought to do the same.</p>