<p>^ Thank you :D</p>
<p>When I visited Harvard, I felt my happiness being sucked away (a la Harry Potter with the dementors). I only visited Harvard because a relative donated a building and I wanted to see it. The students were unfriendly and looked harried and sad.</p>
<p>Yale, on the other hand, was practically sparkling with good spirits. It was cloudy and icky the day I went, yet everyone I met went out of their way to make sure I had the best visit possible. The dorms were amazing and every person I saw looked thrilled to be there.</p>
<p>That’s all I can say 
Congrats on Yale! Even though I feel like I should be opening up a Yale spot by pushing you towards Harvard, Yale deserves the best students and clearly you’ve earned that.</p>
<p>isn’t Questbridge binding, making it impossible to apply to Harvard once you are matched with Yale? just wondering. congrats btw. =D I wish I were in your shoes.</p>
<p>your spending the next four years of your life in new haven… ***… apply to like cornell, harvard or an urban school… well if going to new haven is your thing…then just go to yale</p>
<p>You can’t go to Harvard. The Questbridge early-admit program is binding.</p>
<p>Congrats, nice work!!</p>
<p>It is often reported that Yale is better for undergraduates, though I am completing my last two years of high school at Harvard’s Extension School (and have had all Harvard faculty) and have loved it, as do two of my friends who attend the College.</p>
<p>Yale - Extraordinary academics (though skewed away from the hard sciences). Provides luminaries on the faculty combined with a stunning array of intellectual offerings (formal courses as well as unique extra-curricular (ECs) like Grand Strategy). Reigns supreme in the fine arts, offers great leadership and service opportunities. Greatest undergrad focus [tutoring, mentoring, residential college housing, funding for ECs] with the possible exception of Dartmouth. Market leading endowment performance has Yale rolling in dough. The brand name is second to none. And it feels closer to the centers of American power than perhaps all the other top schools (Good Shepherd anyone). </p>
<p>Major downside - New Haven, which is still depressing after all these years </p>
<p>Harvard - #1 brand. #1 endowment. Harvard manages both aggressively. Overall, Harvard has more - more money, more Nobelists, more books, more museums, more labs, more of everything. The school is loaded with superstar faculty (Nobel’s, National Academy members, etc). Harvard College has the highest yield and one of the lowest admit rates; it may have more students that are really off the charts than any other school in America. The place is Institutional with a capital I. </p>
<p>Major downside - Harvard tends to favors its graduate schools, and the sometimes abandoned undergrads don’t complain too much because they count themselves lucky to even be there. A low-level and pervasive unhappiness can pervade many undergraduate psyches, as some believe that their peers are getting a better education and having more fun elsewhere.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>“You can’t go to Harvard. The Questbridge early-admit program is binding.”</p>
<p>As I mentioned on the first page, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Notre Dame are NON-binding. </p>
<p>Thanks for all the suggestions and a private PM that a generous poster sent me. It helps. Right now, I’m leaning towards not even applying to Harvard. :D</p>
<p>personally, if i was in your very enviable position, i would slack off the rest of the year without worrying about other apps since your already guaranteed a great school.</p>