<p>Regarding workload, etc.</p>
<p>This observation is about 10 years old, and comes from one data point, but I will share it anyhow. I have a friend who did the Social Studies major at Harvard then went on to Yale for a PhD in one of the social science disciplines. At Yale he of course served as a TA in a number of undergraduate courses in his department.</p>
<p>His observation was that reading lists in the humanites and social sciences tended to be longer at Harvard, but no one really expected anyone to do all the reading. Part of the game was learning to skim, read selectively and strategically, integrate etc. - perhaps fairly similar to grad school.</p>
<p>At Yale he noticed that reading lists were shorter and more focused, but that profs were more likely to expect that students actually did it all and mastered it. He thought it was a little more like high school where instructions like “the midterm will include only pages 38-92 of this book and will not cover Chapter 7 of this or this or that”. He found it a little weird at first.</p>
<p>Anyhow, not sure how fair this view is, but it does come from one fairly experienced person.</p>
<p>BTW, he did love Yale and actually preferred the undergraduate atmosphere at Yale over Harvard’s. He thought students were bright, kind, and less angst ridden.</p>