<p>We back Harvard to pre-frosh because we want them to come, and we know the choice between the two schools can be tough - to our mind, they should come because WE think Yale is awesome, whereas Harvard lures “our” pre-frosh away because they think everyone ELSE in wider society thinks Harvard is awesome.</p>
<p>It’s sad that our school sentiment should be negatively defined against Harvard, but I suppose we feel we need to counteract the idea that the only difference between Y and H is that the latter is of higher prestige - when you bash Harvard, you bash “stuffy” academia and try and differentiate Yale from traditional ivy stuffiness.</p>
<p>Obviously most of us have never gone to Harvard, and there is nothing to say that “our” pre-frosh won’t be equally or perhaps more happy there. Still, we feel posessive, and we feel sad that people don’t acknowledge just how great Yale is, not because, but DESPITE being in the same theoretical league as Harvard.</p>
<p>/Rambling over</p>