yyemperor

Penn state is great

Then tell us about it

Your university Yale is good.

But wait I'm gonna do some eh...arguments but maybe later...

Fashion is good , too,

JHU is very kind too, give me the fellowship, send me mega brochrues, and JHU is very smart, but being smart does not mean being good...

And UC Berkely is quite good

Hey, relax

Hey, easy

So what's your dream school or say... dream program?

So what is the best in overall in your mind then?

Which one? A.Harvard B.HYP C.HYPS D.HYPS+MIT E.HYP+UPenn+Columbia+Stanford+MIT F.Top10:HYP+UPenn+Columbia+ (Non Ivy)Stanford+MIT+Duke +UChicago+Caltech+ WashU G.Ivy League+ Stanford+MIT

Yale, please. You are so excellent... I plan to apply for Harvard, but I didn't. I only got Columbia and UPenn Mechanical Engineering. But if I were you, I will go to Yale because both Columbia and Yale are not very strong in ME, then why not choose the "HYP" ?

It seems that no one cares about this...

Something I don't understand... I've seen many people, including those who are in Stanford right now, are talking about "Don't go to Stanford just beacause of its big name" "Stanford is not your best choice you should go to another prgram in XXX" "You will be foolish , stupid to go to Stanford but you will be smart to XXX" They have many reasons talking like that, but maybe the most important reason or so called essential reason is that ------ "Stanford is trumpery!!! Although Stanford is famous around the world, it is not as strong as we may believe and it's expensive!!!. If you go to Stanford, the employer will not hire you, because you came from Stanford, a university not strong enough, going to Stanford will be a wasting money, so please go to universities who give you fellowship or any other finacial aids. People in the world will not care about you because Stanford only got its big name..." First of all, we all know that the university you enter will not really help you to become a successful individual, it depends on ourselves. If we find the path or work hard or... can't we still be very successful after we graduated from Stanford even if Stanford is argubly not stronger than any other universities ? Those who drop out of school can be trillionaires, so, why do we think for sure that we can't earn back our money? Second, why the hell does Stanford get its big name when it has so many weaker programs, why is Stanford always ranked among top5 in USNews & World Report, while others except "HYP+ MIT+CIT" aren't? Third, we need to construct a social network and the reason is that we will not work alone , so why don't we want to build it with stronger people even when they are not in the very same field with us? Fouth, even if Stanford is really a trumpery, but what about others, like UT-Austin, Berkely, Harvard, UIUC, Columbia......and what about those who are so called "ranked" in 1#, 2#,3 #, 100#, 200#? Is the ranking we mentioned a trumpery?? I mean ...may be Stanford is ranked in 50 in XX program in our opinons, not strong enough, but is the XX ranked in 1# really stronger or how much stronger can it be ? I don't understand...