Bad Harvard Tour Experience

DwightEisenhower
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:21:36 +0000

I respectfully dissent from the other posters here and say that students who speak negatively about the school should be treated as a rare gem and should be asked as many questions as possible. The reality is that all schools have downsides and it’s important to know what current students think they are. Why would you bother asking a question if all you want is the whitewashed answer?

Granted, Harvard might want to fire this tour guide because he doesn’t seem to do his job very well…but from the student’s perspective it’s an advantage to have a student who talks about the negatives. Also keep in mind that you shouldn’t take any one student’s views about Harvard as fact (that includes mine and other posters’ here.) But if at least one Harvard student thinks the social life stinks, sure he could be wrong, but isn’t that worth further investigation?