<p>Haha, congrats to all Harvard class of 2013 admits!</p>
<p>yay us!</p>
<p>haha - indeed.</p>
<p>ahhhh, I will be attending the best university in the World!!!</p>
<p>everyone be extremely proud of yourselves</p>
<p>I’m excited!!</p>
<p>the joy did not sink in yet and i still cannot believe that this is real</p>
<p>Congrats all around!</p>
<p>this is crazay!</p>
<p>xD !!!</p>
<p>omg i can’t believe it! can’t wait to see you guys!!!</p>
<p>yuminemma - I feel exactly the same way, and keep expecting them to turn around and say, “well, actually, it was sort of an april fool’s…” It’s too big for my mind to grasp :)</p>
<p>For any of us choosing between H and Y, this might be helpful (credit given to a poster in the Yale forum):</p>
<p>Bad things about Yale:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Crime and Homelessness. New Haven is worse in this regard than many comparable institutions (maybe not as bad as Penn or Columbia, but definitely worse than Harvard, Princeton, Stanford).</p></li>
<li><p>Science hill. If you’re into sciences, you’ll be trekking. It’s only a few blocks, but it seems further to bitter science majors.</p></li>
<li><p>You’re stuck in a college. Too be honest, almost everyone seems happy in their respective college, but if you are unhappy, there’s little you can do about it besides transferring to a different one. You will have to live and interact with your college-mates for four years. (and there are many many upsides to residential college life)</p></li>
<li><p>If it’s your scene, drinking laws in CT have gotten really restrictive. Party on. Rah.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Bad Things about “Elite East Coast Schools” in general</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Yale is really politically liberal. The level of Obama-love hurts sometimes.</p></li>
<li><p>Yale is really effing liberal in other respects too. There is a weird fixation with sex and nudity.</p></li>
<li><p>Yalies have poor taste in music and generally eschew Hip-Hop, Pop, Punk, and Metal in favor of such genres as Indie Rock, Underground Hip-Hop, and Folk.</p></li>
<li><p>Yalies can be pretentious. They’re not always Harvard-level, perhaps, but pretension abounds nonetheless.</p></li>
<li><p>Yalies can be a sheltered lot. There are students who don’t recognize a washing machine upon arrival in New Haven. There are students who’ve never seen a homeless man before.</p></li>
<li><p>A glut of humanities majors.</p></li>
</ol>