<p>i mean that question in two different ways. first, is anybody attending harvard over a school they would have rather attended for reasons relating to others' pressure, prestige, cost, etc.? second, is anybody attending harvard who would have rather gone to another school by which they were rejected? in my case, yale had always been my dream school since i first started getting college mail. i was subsequently deferred and rejected, and now i'll be going to harvard. although they were very close for me, i believe that i would have chosen yale given that choice. if i look at it objectively, i think harvard is clearly the way to go because of financial aid and resources, location, and reputation, but yale just felt like home and harvard didn't. anybody in a similar situation?</p>
<p>My friend at SSP chose Harvard over Columbia because H offers credit for its courses while C doesn't. She was just telling me yesterday that she now would rather go to C even if she doesn't get any credit. </p>
<p>Her reasons include:
1. Harvard's not exciting (Compare to C anyway, which is in NY)
2. She doesn't like the people here (Although I don't agree with her)
3. She hates H's lame curfew system (This I agree with. They make us go down stairs to comfirm that we're upstairs! That is just dumb)
4. She got her ID taken away yesterday because she was 2 minutes late for curfew. For a dumb reason too -- she was upstairs talking to her mom on the phone</p>
<p>It really depends on what your preferences are really. I happens to like Harvard a lot.</p>
<p>Wait...WHAT!? </p>
<p>Harvard has a CURFEW?</p>
<p>That's just for SSP with high school sophs...I'm at Harvard SSP and am gonna be a high school senior..NO CURFEW FOR ME :D</p>
<p>HARVARD ROCKS! THE WIDENER LIBRARY IS LIKE AN AWESOME PALACE OR MUSEUM WHOAAA!!!!!!! I AM TOTALLY DESPERATE TO GO UNDERGRAD AND HOPEFULLY GRAD HERE...</p>
<p>harvard does rock.</p>
<p>i went to SSP not even with plans to apply there.</p>
<p>now i am applying EA in the fall :)</p>
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<p>My daughter was much like you. When she applied she ranked Yale number 1 and Harvard number 1A. She didn't get into Yale and so went off to Harvard. After a few days of the excitement and thrill of being a freshman at Harvard, she had forgotten all about Yale. Now it's "Yale? Who? You mean that school we crushed in the big football game?"</p>
<p>She loves Harvard and is very glad she is there. Chances are you will soon feel the same way.</p>
<p>No school is perfect for everyone. Harvard IS many student's first choice, but it's certainly not everyones'. <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>My D was accepted to H and Y. Y was her EA school, but after deferral, she started opening her eyes to other possibilities. When the acceptances started rolling in, it came down to HYP. H felt right, Y didn't. P was not in the running.</p>
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<ol> <li>Harvard's not exciting (Compare to C anyway, which is in NY)</li> <li>She doesn't like the people here (Although I don't agree with her)</li> </ol>
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<p>Does your friend realize that SSP has almost nothing to do with what Harvard College is actually like? The campus life is completely dead in the summer and the student population is 95% different.</p>
<p>thanks, coureur. it's nice to hear good things about the harvard experience because it seems like the majority of what people say is negative and it's kind of bringing me down. i used to be ridiculously excited to go to college and now, not so much.</p>
<p>You think Harvard is going to allow a bunch of 10th grade sprats to run around cambridge at all times of the night??? I mean Harvard does need a fun czar to make things exciting on campus, but they are not lame enough to have a curfew for actual college students. Most high school summer programs have a curfew...</p>
<p>Did you ever find that XXXL Princeton T-shirt?</p>
<p>For some reason, Byerly's amazingly good memory for these random things (the XXXL shirt in this instance) amuses me a great deal.</p>
<p>thinkjose1: I'm pretty sure Byerly just uses the handy-dandy "Find Other Posts" tool.</p>
<p>I mean, come on--think, jose, think! Haha ;)</p>
<p>Probably, but not in this case. He and King previously had a mini-conversation about XXXL Princeton shirts.</p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>I have been searching online, w/o success, for a XXXL shirt, but haven't found one. I wondered if he found an acceptable T on his campus visit.</p>
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<p>oh, guess what? around a dozen of students from my dorm got called to see Brad (assistent dean) 2 days ago because a ton of people broke the curfew rule of having to be in bed (and in our own rooms) between 6am-7am. now my dorm is under high inspection and has a 'enhanced curfew system'.... very exciting</p>
<p>wow you guys scared me when u said harvard had a curfew.... its only right that the SSP has a curfew since you have tons of 16 and 17 year olds running around and Harvard is probably liable for their welfare... anyways, all the current students i have talked to has told me that they LOVE Harvard. I'm not worried about having a bad time at all. I think its going to be sooo much fun. Go in there with a positive attitude, and you will get so much more out of harvard.</p>
<p>No, Harvard doesn't have a curfew. Interestingly, some colleges do. Or, there is a time after which non-residents cannot be in your dorm room, for example-- Boston University. I have to give the guard a photo ID to get in, and I can't be in a friend's (even of the same sex) after 2 AM. Anyway, I am a senior at Harvard, and I really love it. Can't believe that 3 yrs have already gone by. Of course, freshman yr the freshmen from CA and other warm climes are often heard chanting "I wish we'd gone to Stanford" during the winter, but they don't really mean it. You get used to the weather.</p>
<p>I've never went to any of the events that the so-called "fun czar" assisted in organizing, eg, pub nights with cheap beer, pop, and live music in Loker Commons...yet I've really had a blast.</p>