Harvard's endowment has dropped by $8 billion leading to salary freezes etc.

<p>This makes me wonder about choosing to go to Harvard, if I were accepted. </p>

<p>One thing that makes me most excited about going to Harvard are the research opportunities for undergraduates. I had the impression you could get grants for practically anything you conceived. I wonder how this might change.</p>

<p>Also, I wonder how classes might change? At my campus visit, I kept hearing the example of a class where only one student signed up and the student wound up with 3 professors teaching it. Will class sizes and the teacher:student ratio go up, while class selection goes down?</p>

<p>I also wonder if other schools, like Stanford, are in as dire financial straits? I haven’t heard as much about it.</p>

<p>Of course, Harvard will always have an amazing community of students and teachers so in all likelihood I’d still accept…if I were so lucky to have the choice…</p>