I just wanted to chime in. I agree with OP mentioning more “community feel” for Yale. And this is not just while you are there. In some way, you carry Yale community the rest of your life, if you opt in. How do I know? I went to Yale. My sister in law went to Harvard. The way we interact with 4 years of our pasts seems fundamentally different. For my sis, her college remains on her resume and in her brain. For me, my college still meets once a month through zoom. We throw in everything that makes us happy or sad or angry or worried. There are nationally famous guys and absolute unknowns like myself, but it does not matter one bit - we go back to the Old Campus the day we arrived. My sis has been envious of this, so I asked her why don’t they start and she said the H folks are simply not as cohesive and this cannot be forced. I agree. I am not saying one is better than the other; I am just saying the way they respectively are. If you are a Yalie and dislike meeting your old classmates, you can always opt out. But you have the choice to opt in as well, and that’s where the value proposition is. Yalies are intense, passionate, and have big hearts, on average.
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