<p>I don't currently attend any of these schools but are they generally looked down upon at Harvard?</p>
<p>Why should they be? They are universities, after all. </p>
<p>And for people unfamiliar with the discussion, here is the original conversation over at the Boston College board:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/737566-true-harvard-mit-students-look-down-upon-boston-college-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/737566-true-harvard-mit-students-look-down-upon-boston-college-students.html</a></p>
<p>Harvard/MIT are in the top echelon of US universities. HYPMS. BU, BC and NE arent. As to who looks down on whom, eh.</p>
<p>Plenty of smart people go to college in the Boston-area, and not all of them go to MIT or Harvard.</p>
<p>All 3 are fantastic schools.</p>
<p>A university is a university. Only 1% of the entire world goes to get a university degree. Even if one is going to a less selective/lower ranked university, that person should be very happy that they are joining this elite group regardless.</p>
<p>But I guess it is all relative, isn’t it? As we move into the United States, a higher percentage of the population goes to get a university degree, and by intuition alone, we begin “ranking” universities and comparing them on a quantitative level, in order to stratify those university degree seeking people into various groups of “eliteness”, even though it’s barely possible to do so.</p>
<p>But I guess I am just rambling here. Why should a student at Harvard “look down” on another person attending a “lower ranked” school? It just demonstrates a degree of immaturity and haughtiness on that student’s part.</p>
<p>All three of those schools are wonderful schools with their own strengths. There are concrete reasons why a person could choose to attend each one of them instead of Harvard. </p>
<p>As for Harvard students “looking down” on students attending these other institutions, I certainly hope that is not the case since my daughter will be attending H next year and that is not her personality.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure Havard can see any of these schools, especially BC and NEU. Also, was it Nice Carraway’s father who gave the advice to never think anyone is better than you, and never think you’re better than anyone? Good advice.</p>
<p>^ hey Morandi, I owe you an e-mail. :)</p>
<p>When I went to the visiting program in April, some of the Harvard students I was hanging with were with their friends from NE and BU. Just so you know</p>
<p>OP: That’s certainly not the case, for reasons outlined by many posters above. I’ve never met a Harvard student who actively “looked down” on other schools, especially not top-notch schools like the ones listed. (Incidentally, my girlfriend goes to BU).</p>
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<p>BC, BU and NEU are barely on the radar for most Harvard undergrads. </p>
<p>Students from those schools don’t usually come to Harvard Square to socialize, and Harvard students don’t leave Cambridge all that much. What is more common is for BU, BC and (most especially) Wellesley girls to come to Harvard finals clubs parties, and for Harvard students to have some high school friends who attend other schools in Boston. The sports, rich-kid, Massachusetts-raised, and conservative Catholic populations at Harvard may have more of a connection to BC or BU, but it is not very visible. </p>
<p>MIT and Wellesley are by far the top two local schools in their degree of connection to the Harvard undergrads, then BC / BU (maybe add Brandeis and Tufts) as a distant tie for third, then everything else.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is Harvard students who look down at them, it is the people who favor Ivies and equivalent way more than any other school.</p>