YALE - Harvard w/o the depression

agupps
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:56:37 +0000

I am an SCEA admit, and this is what i was thinking about. Harvard, to me, is a place where people are fiercly competitive, often depressed, and at times, disillusioned with their college experience. Yale is marketed to be the antithesis of this - a place where students are happy, down-to-earth, pretty chill, smart, intelligent people. thats the feeling i had when i visited the campus a couple times and what made me apply EA. but, the thing is, im sure that there is a lot of depression/competitive at yale as well? how is this - do any students feel completely overwhelmed/risk suicide? hows the competition? its just to me, yale and harvard are more similar than they are different, so i was wondering how similar they are in this respect.