What Distinguishes The Top Ranked Universities From One Another?
There is an overload of information from brochures and websites which is sometimes confusing. At times, it is hard to pin point what exactly distinguishes one fine institution from another. It superficially seems every university encourages exploration among students, has freshman and sophomore seminars, mandates professor office hours, offers study abroad, etc. So I am wondering if people have concrete examples of really unique features universities provide, which cannot be found anywhere else/are rare. Knowing this will make it easier for applicants to distinguish which schools to apply to. (A really pronounced example I guess, is Brown’s Open Curriculum. But other more subtle examples would work too.) Universities like the Ivies, Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, Duke, among others.
