Admitted! It feels unreal.

sylvie88
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:16:35 +0000

I know what you mean: as I’m looking up Harvard online, I’ve found a lot of negative stuff… Sometimes it seems like Harvard gets by on its brand name, taking the best applicants and giving them a pretty good education, but one that’s not as exceptional as most people believe. There’s the rumors of lots of huge classes and that basically that there’s not enough focus on the undergrads. But someone on another thread I remember reading made a good point: a lot of this negative stuff is due to the fact that it’s not big news to point out the good things about Harvard, so people pay more attention to the negative things: dog bites man v. man bites dog, as they put it.
Anyway, I’m still really excited to go visit! But I also want to know where else I got accepted. I thought getting into Harvard would make my decision easy. But so far, it hasn’t.