<p>You are hardly typical, though, are you, of MOST common admits?</p>
<p>You were so devoted to Yale that you applied early. When you were then deferred, your nose was out of joint for a while. </p>
<p>Finally, when they admitted you after deferral, you got over the anger, humiliation, sorrow or whatever, and went to the place you wanted to go all along.</p>
<p>Rather typical for those with a <em>similar</em> experience.</p>
<p>As hard as it may be for you to believe, there are many thousands of people who apply to Harvard because they REALLY WANT TO GO THERE. Those who wind up going elsewhere seem to draw some comfort from pretending/claiming - as do you - that this is not the case.</p>
<p>There should be no need to rehash the tired, anti-Harvard cliches.</p>
<p>By the way, Harvard and Yale shared adjacent visiting periods for some years. It was Yale that moved up “Bulldog Days” to avoid the overlap and to, hopefully, increase attendence.</p>
<p>No “dirty tricks” involved, Chasgoose2 - stop being a silly goose.</p>
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<p>From the YDN April 17, 2000:</p>
<p>“It’s an experiment we’re trying, and we won’t know what the lesson of it is until the conclusion of the second weekend,” Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead said.</p>
<p>The new schedule is intended to accommodate more pre-frosh by offering them two opportunities to visit Yale. Though the second, one-day program might be more convenient for pre-frosh visiting other New England colleges – Harvard’s equivalent of Bulldog Days happens right after the one-day program, from April 28-30 – student organizers admit that it will not be the equal of the two-day program."</p>