Harvard v Stanford = Madness!

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You don’t prove your point by focusing on one piece of evidence while disregarding the other; the evidence shows Harvard students are unhappy.

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<p>I “focused on” the only argument I cared to directly refute. The wonders of quoting.
Your overall point of “really, the people who choose Harvard go only for the name” was still extensively addressed.</p>

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And don’t kid yourself…

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<p>Thanks for keeping me grounded.</p>

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…prestige is by far the number one factor in many students’ college decisions.

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<p>Really?? So hats why we’ve been getting ‘School A vs School B’ threads like this one for the past week with students weighing in all the factors being making a decision. Because in the end it all comes down to a ranking for them- they’re just killing time here…finally an explanation. :rolleyes: Baseless assumptions based on stereotypes.</p>

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Please name these “dozens of other factors”.

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<p>Learn to search. If you’ll notice you’re on a college board with both a Stanford and Harvard forum. These forums have well over a hundred threads each ranging from program offerings, professors, campus settings, resources available, areas of interests, student bodies, geographical locations, etc…But why bother with facts when sweeping generalizations are so much powerful, correct?</p>

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really, the people who choose Harvard go only for the name.

Thats just precious. Let’s continue…

Nice job focusing on the Princeton Review statistics while conveniently sidestepping the other evidence.</p>

<p>Harvard ranks near the bottom in quality of life according to the Boston Globe report, so regardless of your perceived legitimacy of the Princeton Review, the Boston Globe’s report remains, as does the Crimson’s follow-up report.

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<p>That whooshing sound you just heard was you narrowly missing the point. I was talking about all instances of defining ‘student happiness’ by statistics. (I have nothing against the Princeton Review in particular). Surveys are meant to give broad overviews of general tendencies. First of all to survey something as undefined as ‘happiness’ is not as cut and dry as say, ‘which school has the highest students to bathroom ratio’.</p>

<p>Furthermore the extent to which you are applying this nominal ranking (‘See! School A’s happiness is higher than school D. You will be happy at A and unhappy at D! Its statistically undeniable’ Akzeptieren Narren!) is where the ‘profoundly stupid’ kicks in and a reverse of ad populum in itself, defining individual opinion by mass tendencies. (logical fallacies are just gosh darn fun, aren’t they? )</p>

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Ad hominem arguments will get you nowhere.

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<p>Doesn’t mean they’re not fun.</p>

<p>With that said, i think the conclusion we’ve both reached here is that a visit to the schools is the best tiebreaker possible so with that I say cheers to this thread because I have a doozie of a twosie on the way.</p>

<p>Cheers Y’all! :D</p>