<p>I am duplicating a similar thread on the Harvard board. Those cross-admits who chose Yale over Harvard please post here and give us your reasons.</p>
<p>The P R stats site shows that of 28 Yale admits, 6 were also admitted to Harvard. Of those 6, 4 chose Harvard and there is no indication of a choice having been made by the other two.</p>
<p>Someone in my school did. He is really into drama and felt that Yale had a better program. He didnt even really consider Harvard.</p>
<p>I chose Yale over Harvard (as well as Princeton) for a variety of reasons. Although I agree that in-general Cambridge > New Haven > Princeton, Yale's academic (in terms of majors, courses, and professors) and social aspects (those beyond its location) were a much better fit; ultimately, they won me over. Even so, it's difficult to specify further, because at nearly every level of comparison, I prefer Yale. Ask, and I'll clarify.</p>
<p>I chose Yale over Harvard, but I already answered this on another thread.</p>
<p>for me it was about fit. The Yale aesthetic fit me better, though I will always think Cambridge is an awesme town.</p>
<p>I chose Yale over Harvard and MIT. Felt more comfortable with the kids at Yale. Harvard snobs turned me off and MIT spaceness really scared me. Besides I liked the athletic coach who recruited me more at Yale than the others.</p>
<p>"Harvard snobs turned me off"</p>
<p>It seems to me that every person that has had to choose among HYPSM feels the need to spout off negative stereotypes of the schools that they didn't choose just to justify his/her choice.</p>
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It seems to me that every person that has had to choose among HYPSM feels the need to spout off negative stereotypes of the schools that they didn't choose just to justify his/her choice.
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<p>I agree, and I find the practice quite ugly. </p>
<p>I ended up choosing Harvard over Yale, but I still think that Yale is an EXCELLENT school (and may be even a better 'fit' in some cases). No need for hostilities.</p>
<p>EDIT: From my observations, Harvard* seems to be the greatest victim of post-admittance backlash. Many posters have expressed that rejecting Harvard creates an akwardness in which they feel they must justify their choice to those around them (who presumably expected them to choose the most prestigious option). The negative stereotypes that we hear so often from Harvard-decliners may be a reflection of that.</p>
<p>(*followed by Yale and Princeton, in relation to schools like Duke, Stanford, and MIT)</p>
<p>I chose Yale over Harvard. While I was at Harvard, I did not encounter any sort of snobbishness at all, which I found both surprising and refreshing. (The same thing, that is, the lack of snobbishness, also occurred at Yale.) For me, it came down to mostly non-academic issues. A major factor for me in choosing Yale over Harvard was the campus; I liked Yale's campus much more than Harvard's. Although Harvard has the much better location, I felt that New Haven was in reality not as bad as everyone made it out to be. Plus, New Haven is not that far from New York.</p>
<p>im the only one out of 3 HYP cross-admits at my h.s. to accept Harvard. The other two decided on Yale. Traditionally, my H.s. is much more of a Yale school than a Harvard school. I thought I would be headed to Yale, until I visited New Haven and realized i'd hate to be there for 4 years.</p>
<p>Ok, i'm an international from australia so i don't have the opportunity to visit cambridge or new haven b4 i decide (if i get in :P). What are some good things and bad things about each town?</p>
<p>Cambridge is a lot more developed than New Haven, and has myriad stores (yes! I correctly used myriad) and restaurants to choose from. New Haven also has these selections, albeit in a slightly more gritty neighborhood. Truly, New Haven isn't that bad a neighborhood, but some people who come from smaller or more sheltered neighborhoods may opt out. Cambridge is also seen as a lot more spohisticated, because, lets face it, Boston has a lot more opportunities.
Now I'll tell you one neighborhood that gave me pause; Middleton Conn. To get directions to Wesleyan I accidently stopped into some creepy homeless men's workforce and spent the entire time feeling them eyeing my dior bag LOL. But being a New Yorker, I am used to all this, and I could basically live anywhere.</p>
<p>The thing about Yale v Harvard in terms of location though is that Yale students stay on campus more than Harvard students (Harvard students have more places to go and the 'T' to get there) This leads to a more campus centered social life at Yale. That may be a good or bad thing for you.</p>
<p>I chose to be recruited by Yale over Harvard. Why? Thats a good question really. I actually think Harvard offered better athletic facilities, and academically they are second to none. But in the end it came down to a gut feeling i suppose. Even though the people at Harvard where great, I just believed Yale was a better fit. After visiting it was my impression that everything at Harvard was about being the best. They try really hard, and maybe a bit too hard, to be the best at all imaginable things. And most often they succeed. This doesnt make the Harvard people I met snobby however at least not to my eyes. In fact, they where extremely friendly and welcoming, they all just seemed so busy being good at everything all the time, that they seemed to forget to just be human once in a while.</p>
<p>I can never really understand why people lie on anonymous chat boards. For example, spoungemop, who claims in this thread to have chosen Yale over Harvard because the "Harvard snobs" turned him off. But on April 2, he posted that he had been waitlisted at Harvard. Then on April 3, he changed his mind and posted that he had been accepted at Harvard. On April 3, he also posted that he had been rejected at Dartmouth. Then on April 30, he posted that he "blew off" Dartmouth (and other schools including Harvard) to be a "Bulldawg". I guess at least the "bull" part is right. But what's the point?</p>
<p>flimxoxo-Don't want to be pedantic (okay, I do want to be pedantic), but I usually see "myriad" used as "myriad of stores" rather than "myriad stores." Not sure if that's a hard + fast rule, or just a typical vs. atypical construction. I am a horrible grammar nerd. The end.</p>
<p>lol
just<em>forget</em>me - I was going to point out that same mistake.</p>
<p>you rock ice</p>
<p>are you on myspace?</p>
<p>Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Myriad myriads of lives. This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word mrias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun mrias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective mrias was used only in poetry.</p>
<p>another horrible grammar nerd :)</p>
<p>boo ya! i knew i was right.
to verify, both the harvard and yale viewbooks use myriad as an adjective. i remmeber thinking to myself "wow, they're saying the exact same thing..."</p>
<p>about harvard and yale again, wat ur saying is yale people are friendlier and/or they don't spend as much time doing extra work or wateva...are most harvard people bookworms?</p>