For whoever lives around New Haven....

filmxoxo17
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:36:18 +0000

I’ve spent a lot of time on the Yale campus and have a ton of friends there. I can honestly say that I have met some of the nicest people while there, but beyond that, some of the humblest. Some people didn’t even seem so intelligent to me when I first met them until I heard about some amazing thing they had done.

I’ve visited Harvard, and know some students there, and I can say that those I know do not fall into your description. I think you may be being a little harsh. Beyond that, Yale and Harvard draw upon the same core group of students, that is to say that I don’t think that Yale students are intrinsically different from Harvard students. Perhaps something in the environment is different at either school, but I don’t know enough to make conjectures about that.

You say that Harvard students apply and go because it’s Harvard. I’m sure that happens. But what at other top schools, where students go because it’s the next best thing they have after not getting into Harvard? Harvard students get a bed rep because they go to the school against which all else is measured. I know that next year I will be attending its so called rival school, but I think that any rational human being will know that there is nothing radically different in Harvard students v students at X University.

That being said, I think that Yale is awesome, and compared to Harvard, dare I say awesomer… So you should come if you get in. :)