Current Harvard students: are you HAPPY?

roggle6292
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:44:20 +0000

You should PM me, and we can talk some more but a quick answer to your, question… I love it here. No doubt, it can be challenging but I found that most of those challenges would have been the same if I went to the other schools I was accepted to.
As for the prestige factor, don’t worry, I was in the same boat. I didn’t want to “force” myself to like a school based on nothing but the name. In the end, I was between Yale, Harvard and my state school and I eventually realized that if I wanted to get over that hump, I would have to visit and live, for a weekend, like the students did. I would ignore all the fuss over the name and what not and just let nature take its course.
As for your interviewer saying that you should go to Stanford, which I also got into last year, that’s a decision only YOU can make. Really, I love 2013 at Harvard. I can tell that depending on the chemistry of the class and the connections, especially that FIRST connection, you make with people and friends, you can either hate it or love it here. It’s all pretty subjective and generalizations are NEVER what you should base your (life-changing, essentially) choice on. For some people, I am assuming that this is what happened to your interviewer, Harvard didn’t match up to expectations. That’s also something you, and the rest of you blessed to be admitted, should keep in mind. DON"T COME IN WITH EXPECTATIONS because those may be crushed (you’ll be disappointed) or maybe you’ll love it and never want to graduate because you love it that much. It’s funny because my Yale interviewer did a similar thing where she said people at Yale are too dramatic and I was too nice to be in a rude place. I was shocked, but I realized 1) I’m not like her and maybe I wouldn’t have that happen to me, 2) She can’t make my decisions 3) She graduated years (I mean YEARS) ago and things ALWAYS change.

Like I said, PM me and we can chat it up because this is honestly just the tip of the iceberg

Good luck!!