Worth going to MIT, Stanford or Harvard for undergrad?

cltdad
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:45:52 +0000

Harvard despite its reputation is not an especially welcoming destination for engineering or science majors.

I’d like to know where that assessment comes from. My daughter is a sophomore physics concentrator at Harvard and she has found it to be entirely welcoming and supportive. Is the work difficult? - without a doubt. Does engineering lose a lot of concentrators? - yes, but that is true at most/all universities. Decades ago when I was at Georgia Tech students that struggled with engineering either switched to management or transferred to another college. There weren’t as many interesting alternatives as there are at Harvard.