The B-School Application | Re: US News 2017 Rankings are out! Yale is #8 and Stern is #20

I mean, do people apply to HBS because they love the case method? Or is it because of the name.

Sure, Yale benefits from the university name. But so do Dartmouth, U Chicago, Penn, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford.... There isn't a top 10 Bschool that isn't a top university as well, and that's for a reason. The Yale name has helped the school move up in the rankings quickly, no doubt. But the fact that it's risen in the rankings is due to the fact that it's attracted better students. Better students