Harvard sued over 'subpar' online learning amid pandemic

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@ryandinho14

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What you are paying for is Harvard’s logo on your undergraduate. Nobody would be paying $40,000 for Harvard if it was ranked as #200 by USNews.

You are paying for the highest paid professors in the country, who still need to be paid, you are paying for the TAs, who still need to be paid, you are paying for the assorted administrators who have been hired to make sure that you are happy, etc. Even the labs still require most of the upkeep. Harvard’s expenses have not dropped by much just because the students are temporarily not on campus.

Harvard, like every other college, scrambled to do their best when they sent students home. Maybe those students expected the professors to give them personal lectures at home because they are at Hahvahd. The university did its best in the situation.

If you are ordering a steak, and the restaurant burns down halfway through your meal, are you going to sue the restaurant for not running into the fire and saving your meal?

I don’t know what you and those students thought that Harvard should have done in the situation.

It is again this idea that Harvard is some Celestial Education Palace, which provides a Miraculous Education Experience, and would have had a fully set up a personalized virtual experience, or even education in virtual reality, months ahead of the pandemic.

As I wrote - this is entitlement. They attend Harvard, so they think that they “deserve” a better experience than everybody else in the country, no matter what the situation is.

I’ve never seen so much jealousy in a single comment before. They got into Harvard - they DO deserve a better experience.

“Nobody would be paying $40,000 for Harvard if it was ranked as #200 by USNews.”

Have you never heard of the hundreds of private colleges that are ranked 200 and below?

The “you’re just jealous” argument. That seems to be a go-to ad hominen attack when discussing Harvard.

If you had actually read my post, you would see that I was actually defending Harvard’s behavior and criticizing the people who expected too much. Exactly why you would see this as jealousy is puzzling to me. I mean, shouldn’t I be attacking Harvard if I were jealous? Moreover, what reason would I have to be jealous? I am very happy with the two universities I attended, and I would have actually been unhappy if my daughter were attending Harvard (no, she wasn’t rejected).

OK, so being ranked #300 by USNews. or one of the 1,000 which aren’t ranked. I should also have written $51,000, since that is what Harvard officially charges. Whoopee. My point is that people who are paying top dollar for Harvard are paying for its name and reputation, rather than because of anything else. Whether this would compare to #200 or #500 is irrelevant.

But again, this is another logical fallacy - a Red Herring.

Since you are about to start college, I recommend that you practice making actual points on your arguments, rather than simply using logical fallacies. Your essays will look better, and you will get better grades overall.