Explore the world's top universities - The pursuit of Yale people

Author: Liu Yong
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: Yale University is not the lowest in acceptance rate among the Ivy League in the United States, nor does it have a small number of famous professors, and alumni donations are only ranked twenty-first. In this regard, Harvard has always been the undisputed leader. However, the most authoritative U.S. Best Colleges rankings by U.S. News & World Report placed Yale at the number one position in 1997, while Harvard, which had been ranked number one for years, dropped to the third position. The headline of Yale's student newspaper, The Yale Daily News, reads: "U.S. News finally acknowledges the obvious fact: Yale is the number one," followed by an ironic comment: "Harvard isn't even second!" The two rivals compete fiercely and are unwilling to yield to each other. The competition between Yale and Harvard has been long-standing. These two historically old universities in the United States naturally compete with each other.