How did Harvard gain its reputation and prestige?

JHS
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:47:52 +0000

^ Silly, silly, silly. Maybe “I went to Harvard” is worth 1.005 x “I went to MIT”.* Tenfold? Only among the most clueless of high school students, or people so ignorant their opinion can’t possibly matter.


Actually, the excess value would be a little less in math or science, and a little more in the humanities. In engineering it would be worth about .8 x MIT.