<p>I have no personal experience with Harvard, whatsoever, and what I’m about to say is kind of unrelated, but when I was in high school I was working at a drug store and I met a girl who had recently dropped out of Harvard after only 1 semester. As a college hopeful this sounded like blasphemy to me at the time. When I asked her why she left, she said that it was because H was full of rich snobs and she didn’t want to be around that. This might not fully answer your question, but I guess some people never find their place at Harvard and don’t find it worth it to stay and be unhappy so they just leave. This particular girl that I spoke to seemed EXTREMELY free spirited and she spoke about going to Harvard like it was a trip to the grocery store. I was in awe and she repeatedly told me “it’s no big deal; I’m really not that smart.” She didn’t take herself seriously at all and I can see why she might have hated it there. She might have been a better fit at a LAC or maybe even Yale.</p>