<p>This is what turned me off Harvard: A family friend’s son, a bio major there, criticized a professor there, and got into some controversy that snowballed. He ended up being forced to leave Harvard for a year, get a job without any recs from Harvard, then go back with recs from his employer, and repeat a year. After that, no professor would write recs for him for a job or for law school. He finally got accepted into Yale Law this year.</p>