<p>I hear from many people that harvard turned out to be one of the greatest disappointments for them in their college careers. My friend was telling me about how the classes are easy and the professors are very impersonal. another friend was telling me about how they couldn’t get a job after because none of his professors knew their students on a personal basis. I also hear that its frankly just not that intellectual. does this seem to be the general consensus?</p>
<p>How is there a relation between getting a job and knowing your professors on a personal basis?</p>
<p>Recommendations, I’m assuming.</p>
<p>Like most anything else GrenadeJumper - it’s what YOU make of it. If you put effort in at a school like Harvard your effort will pay off.</p>
<p>The profs don’t run after students and take their temperature and change their nappies. It’s up to YOU to make it an awesome experience.</p>
<p>Hmmm. I’m not a Harvard grad, but I’m an adult with a graduate degree who has had six jobs. I’ve never been asked for a professor’s recommendation when applying for a job, only recommendations from previous employers.</p>
<p>I assume you submitted professor recommendations when you applied to grad school. Most people do.</p>
<p>Harvard is great for some people, terrible for others, and pretty good for most. It is impossible for any place to live up to unreasonable expectations, given the name.</p>
<p>It is less personal than smaller places? Sure. Easy classes? Depends on your talents and what you take. Certainly one can find intellectual challenge in every major. </p>
<p>Employment prospects are consistently very good. Of course, depends a lot on your major. English majors will always have fewer options than engineers. Employment opportunities also depend on how well you did. </p>
<p>It would be strange to get through the entire 4 years without getting to know some professors. Possible I suppose, but unusual for the typical type A Harvard student.</p>
<p>Yes, GrenadeJumper, I just read the other day in an obscure journal of unimpeachable integrity that - exactly as your smattering of anecdotal evidence suggests - polls of Harvard students taken annually over the last decade have established a “general consensus” as to each of the following propositions:</p>
<p>–For most students, attending Harvard is “one of the greatest disappointments for them in their college careers.”</p>
<p>–The “classes are easy.”</p>
<p>–The professors are “impersonal.”</p>
<p>–It’s “frankly just not that intellectual.”</p>
<p>–With a Harvard degree, you can’t “get a job.”</p>
<p>Thank you for bringing all of this to light.</p>
<p>Why in heaven’s name would anyone in their right mind want to go to such a place?</p>
<p>You’re right and you shouldn’t go there. Why would anybody go to a school where everybody graduates with a 4.0 and can’t get jobs??</p>
<p>Sure, Harvard is exactly like you’ve heard. That’s why it has the country’s largest endowment and one of the largest proportions of alumni giving in the country. That’s also why it gets to reject 9 in 10 applicants.</p>
<p>that is also why it is only number 2 on the us news…</p>