<p>I know that it’s definitely got some bias, but do you think any of this is actually true about harvard?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/187335-why-i-chose-yale-over-harvard-current-student.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/187335-why-i-chose-yale-over-harvard-current-student.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>It is pointless to compare one’s experience with a non-experience. I love Harvard - do I think it’s the best? Yes, however, my comparison is that Harvard is number one out of one. Thus, far be it for me to say that another college is weaker in any given way without experiencing it first, and the same should exist as a universal truth, imo (with the exception of transfers from one university to another).</p>
<p>absolutely agree with huinsider. you couldn’t have said it better :)</p>
<p>Hahahaha the idea that Harvard kids are mentally unstable uptight introverts is so far from the truth. Every single thing that was said about Yale could be applied to Harvard (except maybe about Toad’s, which I agree is quite the locale).</p>
<p>If Yalies really need this to feel better about themselves, then sobeit. I think it’s telling that Harvard kids never have to make threads about why we chose Harvard.</p>
<p>I didn’t read the whole thing, but keep in mind that it was written in 2006 (The scheduling section is outdated, for example).</p>
<p>If you’re particularly curious about any of the statements made about Harvard, just copy + paste them here & we can let you know how true they were (at least in our experiences).</p>
<p>thoughts on this:</p>
<p>“Just in general, Yale is Yale College before it is Yale University – more than a research institution, Yale draws its pride from a vibrant and happy undergraduate student body. The university realizes that its students (not its professors, facilities, history, endowment, etc.) are its biggest asset. Even the layout of the campus clues you in to Yale’s focus – Old Campus is the center of campus, surrounded more or less by the residential colleges, with the grad schools surrounding the college on the periphery.”</p>
<p>by that i mean, is this a lot different then harvard? because I have heard this type thing before (that harvard is grad school and yale is undergrad)</p>
<p>In terms of focus, I do believe that without the undergraduates, the college fails to stand on its feet, and it these 6600+ students, each with something different to offer, that shape the identity of what Harvard is. Pinpointing your particular question, I have never found this college to be grad focused. Admittedly, I am in a smaller concentration, and as such, reap the benefits of an only child, but the major theme across the board is the college doesn’t just give you an education, you need to show that you want it and take the initiative towards it. Anyone I have interacted with that had this initiative, definitely found Harvard’s education to be worthwhile, imo.</p>
<p>In terms of layout, Harvard was founded as the college well before the rest of the university came into play. Thus, our equivalent to Old Campus, Old Harvard Yard, where the first buildings were built, is very much the focus with the houses next door and then the graduate schools slightly further out (map.harvard.edu) in all directions from Old Yard - very similar to Yale’s geography ([Campus</a> map - Yale University](<a href=“http://business.yale.edu/map/]Campus”>http://business.yale.edu/map/))</p>