How to get into Harvard

mochiex2
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:01:34 +0000

My neighbour’s daughter to the left was in some no name school for grad school. Harvard hired her prof so her prof asked her and her research team if they wanna go with him to Harvard instead. She said yes and got her Phd from Harvard. Lucky SOB eh? Who needs to apply just follow the right prof then you are golden.

Neighbour to the right he got his civil engineering degree at the University of British Columbia with 84% undergrad average. 84% at UBC is damn hard since it is a top Canadian public school that’s famous for failing out half the entrance students, most of whom entered with way higher than straight As from high school. Some programs the entrance cut off is about 93% from high school. Canadian school mentality is that if you are smart enough, they’ll find all the excuses to give you money and help you educate yourself for cheap, but if you are not good enough, do trades school or something else.

Anyways, he’s graduating from Stanford’s environmental civil engineering Phd this year. So proves to you…you can either get lucky or work hard. Harvard really isn’t a big deal, we got 2 on our street and 1 stanford. My gf’s lab has two harvard phd and one of the phd’s kids both go to harvard too and one cambridge post-doc and she bosses them around with only a honours BSC from UBC. Although she was offered to go to harvard and stanford for graduate studies, she rather stay in Vancouver and finish her M.D. Phd at UBC for free. Just like most public school harvard has its problems too, from what i hear from friends, their undergrad education sucks, large % taught by graduate students. What a big waste of money. Although their graduate programs seems pretty decent. that’s my Canadian two cents. Just go there for graduate program, don’t waste ur money on undergrad.