[J.A.Sucker]

If you're going to a top-flight grad school looking to find mad hotties, you're in for a world of hurt. That's not to say that you can't find hot chicks out there, but your priorities are shifted in grad school a lot from undergrad. Stanford is a great place to be - great weather, poker nearby, good food, and a great golf course. I have been here awhile and I like it still.

Harvard and MIT are both cold. I'd go to Harvard over MIT in a landslide. The kids at MIT are just miserable. I've never really been sure why, but it seems to be ingrained in the culture there that you just basically go suicidal for your entire time there in grad school. Harvard's slightly better, but not by much. Stanford has just as much pressure, but the grad students can have a little fun. Maybe it's the palm trees.

Berkeley is a great place, too. I'd also consider going there. The town is a college town, unlike Palo Alto which isn't. The chicks are hotter in Berkeley than in Palo Alto, too, and there's more good, cheap food to be found. In fact, nothing's cheap in Palo Alto.

UCLA is the nuts. It's one of the few schools where I'd take a prof job. Westwood has more tight, tanned, ladies than you can find outside of Cheetah's. In fact, some probably dance at Cheetah's - paying their way through school [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

UCSD is in La Jolla, and the weather there is second to none. I think you get discount greens fees at Torrey Pines, and this course is probably a bit better than the Stanford course (though close). La Jolla is still cheaper to live than Palo Alto, and it's right on the damned beach. If you like fish tacos, go here.

Basically, the problem is that you often have to have the decisions made for you. Apply to all of these places and see where you get in. Then, visit the places. For Chem, they flew you out to all of them and wined and dined you. For Econ, I don't know if they do this. You'll know where you want to go. I chose Stanford over every place in the world, but you may have different priorities.