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<p>Agree with those that are saying this thread has devolved into something rather ugly (at least pointless)<<
It is pointless. No matter where you go, undergraduate will not teach you much and the professors really don’t care about MOST of you no matter what they say. You either need to learn a lot more on the job or in a graduate school. If you really like Harvard, go to Princeton, MIT, Caltech or Stanford (Yale if you can’t get in those) for undergraduate and Harvard for graduate school. You will get the name brands and connections from two elite schools instead of one.</p>
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