<p>This is why I am going to hate not getting into Harvard.</p>
<p>ME TOO Inaina..so many beautiful opportunities are going to be lost.</p>
<p>Wow...I am in total agreeance....if i don't get in...im gonna be furious....</p>
<p>nothing like Harvard it will always have the WOW factor whereas the others are behind.. no matter what they do.</p>
<p>WOW</p>
<p>I don't know how Harvard does it....</p>
<p>definate wow.</p>
<p>Screw those yalies!</p>
<p>I'll bet Harvard is way more optimistic about its worst students than any other school, too, thanks to Bill Gates. :)</p>
<p>Yeah...they basically cater to the students...</p>
<p>Lets face it.</p>
<p>Harvard kids are special.</p>
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<p>Screw those yalies!
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<p>Well, Harvard gets (the dropout) Bill Gates. Yale (last year ?) got the alumnus George W Bush. Go figure !</p>
<p>Too bad bush was a C student at yale and only really amounted to anything because he hung onto daddy's arm all his life and now he runs the country like it's a board game.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Screw those yalies!<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Now, now. Let's not sink to the same low level and indulge in the mindless name-calling that Harvard's envious critics so often do. We can be better than that.</p>
<p>Bill Gates: proof that you don't actually need a Harvard degree to be successful in life.
GWB: proof that maintaing a 4.0 isn't the only way to get ahead in life.</p>
<p>The conclusion: if you've got something special (brains, talent, money, connections) you'll probably be successful regardless of where/if you get your college degree.</p>
<p>GWB would never have become president if all he had was a high school diploma.</p>
<p>Bill Gates still had his Harvard contacts. In fact, the people that helped him start up Microsoft and eventually expand it and oversee it's technology were friends of his at Harvard, who did get their degree, one of which I know went on to get his doctorate.</p>
<p>Hm... I could literally run to Bill Gate's place... it's like three miles from mine... the only problem is how to get close enough to actually get inside... haha</p>
<p>"Bill Gates still had his Harvard contacts. In fact, the people that helped him start up Microsoft and eventually expand it and oversee it's technology were friends of his at Harvard, who did get their degree, one of which I know went on to get his doctorate."</p>
<p>I'm sure they've all done quite well in life, but I think it's safe to say that Gates has been the greatest success (from a business standpoint, of course). He is the world's richest nerd. </p>
<p>As for GWB, I agree that he wouldn't have gotten far without the college degree, but it's not like you need to graduate from a prestigious institution to be president these days. You need the contacts, but having famous relatives makes that a lot easier without going to an elite school.</p>
<p>Name one president who didn't go to a prestigious school.</p>
<p>Okay....take William McKinley (the 24th president). He went to Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Happy?</p>
<p>I got more:
LBJ Texas Teachers College
Truman - No college a couple of law school classes
Reagan - Eureka College (my personal favorite)</p>
<p>A prestigious degree is very important if a person wants to become president</p>
<p>What???? Not really... the VAST majority most of our nation's presidents and leaders, and for that matter businessmen, entrepreneurs, did not go to Ivy League schools.</p>