What IS GREAT about Harvard

exultationsy
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:36:16 +0000

I didn’t think the prompt also required that those things be entirely unique to Harvard. I’d have trouble doing that for Harvard and Yale: I don’t think there are any objective things that substantially differentiate Harvard from Yale at a whole-school level. (Yale is stronger on the medieval philosophy front. Harvard has dedicated folklorists. Neither of these affect very many students.) I–and 70-80% of those who are admitted to both–got better subjective “vibes” from Harvard than from Yale, but that’s not very helpful for future applicants.

There are more substantive differences between us and SPM etc., but one doesn’t usually cast Harvard (or almost any school) in terms of “why not X other college”. Yale might be the one school I can think of that has to deal with that question ;)