Yale vs Stanford

canoe2015
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:53:20 +0000

Obviously, this comes down to which one feels like the best fit for you as they are both excellent choices.

The housing systems are pretty different. Yale has a four year residential college system that seems to work extremely well in building social cohesion, but on the other hand there is a greater variety of housing types at Stanford e.g. co-ops. From what I hear from my daughter, the Yale residential college system is all it’s cracked up to be.

I’m not sure if the humanities and social sciences departments are necessarily better at Yale, but I do think those fields are more popular among Yale undergraduates. Right now computer science is the most popular major at Stanford and at Yale I believe it’s either political science or economics.

Both have excellent brands globally, but Yale is naturally a bit stronger on the east coast in terms of number of alumni and brand, and Stanford a bit stronger in California. I think any school is going to be strongest in its home area.

As noted earlier, in terms of warm weather and sunlight the answer is obvious.

Hopefully you’ll have the chance to visit both. Both are so strong that just picking the one you like best is probably the best approach.