“yct is on the same beaten path as jts”
That is not accurate. JTS did start out as Orthodox — their first graduate became the chief rabbi of the UK — but when Solomon Schechter arrived he brought a non-Orthodox hashkafa with him and its co-founder Henry Pereira Mendes disassociated himself from the institution. JTS did have a mostly Orthodox faculty for most of the 20th century — Rabbi Saul Lieberman, who could have taught at virtually any yeshiva in the world, has already been mentioned — but they also tolerated faculty such as Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who is one of the rare people of whom it can be said that he was a sufficiently great talmid chacham to be an actual apikoros. JTS even has a few Orthodox faculty today but it ceased to be an Orthodox institution a very long time ago. Worthy of note is that JTS has very rarely in its history given an Orthodox Yoreh Yoreh semichah.
By comparison, all the core YCT faculty are orthodox in both hashkafa and observance. It gives the ordinary Orthodox Yoreh Yoreh semichah and some of its graduates have made aliyah and passed the official semichah exams of the Israeli Rabbinate. They believe and teach Torah Mi Sinai and are fully observant. JTS has not been that way for generations.
The real comparison to YCT is what the Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Theological School — now affiliated with Yeshiva University — was like in its early decades, prior to the founding of Yeshiva College. It was a fully Orthodox institution, but with a mission to train English-speaking pulpit rabbis for America. The Eastern European rabbinate in America did not support RIETS. But it is because of the vision of people who started and promoted RIETS, along with other parallel movements such as the Orthodox Union and the Young Israel movement, that Orthodox Judaism survived in America. YCT is very much in that tradition. It fills a void created by RIETS becoming primarily a Torah Lishmah institution (with an absolutely amazing faculty), with a huge fraction of its semichah recipients going on to careers in fields other than the rabbinate. Fortunately, the Eastern European rabbinate in America did not run RIETS out of Orthodoxy. And YCT should not be excluded today.