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<p>Junior faculty should also be prepared to move if they fail to win tenure, which is highly probable to happen at the top schools. Anybody who takes a junior faculty position at Harvard ought to know that the odds of winning tenure are low and hence they will need to return to the academic job market and relocate after a few years (and if you don’t know that, well, I would then question whether you even have the intellectual acumen to be teaching at Harvard in the first place). If that’s not acceptable because of your personal circumstances, fair enough, then don’t take the offer from Harvard. The same could be said for most other top schools that have notoriously low tenure rates.</p>