<p>^ I wouldn't say it means nothing, but I would say that admission to Harvard doesn't mean you're necessarily better than your friends who are going to Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Amherst, or Williams.</p>
<p>[I didn't put Yale in there because of the whole 'yuck fale' thing, or princeton b/c of similar sentiments.]</p>
<p>Thank you so much, OP, for posting that thread here!</p>
<p>I couldn't agree more with the general sentiments of this thread (and I'm a Harvard alum myself). School pride and everything, yeah, but admissions officers are only human, and they make huge mistakes in both directions.</p>
<p>Yay, sense of perspective!</p>
<p>How can adcom forecast the future success of their applicants.</p>
<p>This thread is pointless and it proves nothing other than the fact that adcom is and will always be a fallible, human process.</p>