How To Get Into Harvard (by a Harvard student)

sakacar
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:55:05 +0000

This may be its own thread, and may have been answered before, but I’m curious about something posters on this thread might be able to answer, and that is, “Why Harvard?”

We just came back from a NE college tour, and Harvard doesn’t sell itself well.

Maybe it feels like it doesn’t have to. It probably doesn’t. But my DD left thinking that only the name-obsessed would even apply. Are there any serious students at Harvard, or are they all stalking celebrities? ( That was the main focus of the tours, and we switched tours three times to try and find a less obnoxious tour guide - no luck, but we did find a sweet professor who gave us a private, low key tour. It really didn’t make up for the behavior out of the admissions office, though.) So, why would a serious student even want to go to Harvard? (This is a sincere question.)