<p>zomg. Soon, I can claim a highly sought-after Harvard rejection for my own.
Tarry not, Aurora! Apollo, with speed take your chariot to the skies!!</p>
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<p>Well, the general characterization of one school as “better” is not something that I will comment on, but most world rankings put Harvard at number one and Oxford several places back. In this Wikipedia synthesis of three top world ranking lists - [File:Rankings.PNG</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rankings.PNG]File:Rankings.PNG”>File:Rankings.PNG - Wikipedia) - Harvard was number one; Oxford was number seven. Certainly, though, they are both excellent, and one’s decision (should they be in such a rare position) should probably not be based on that list.</p>
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<p>^^And it’s ranked under Cambridge! Hahahahah.</p>
<p>But Conditional Acceptances suck. I mean, you can’t really expect anything else from Oxbridge, but still.</p>
<p>^homesickness? you will get used to it…</p>
<p>speaking for myself, i occasionally craved my parent’s cooking when i joined the military…</p>
<p><em>drools</em></p>
<p>Actually, when I lived in Arizona, a student from a high school near my own was accepted to Harvard. However, he declined the offer in order to attend Northern Arizona University because – and I am not inventing this - he claimed that he would sorely miss his mother’s cookies at such a great distance. It actually made the headlines of the Arizona Republic newspaper. I suppose that it is nice to be family-oriented, but I believe that that validation for denying such a fantastic offer is a bit irrational.</p>
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<p>I thought I was “irrational” for picking Berkeley over Yale… lol</p>
<p>^^ I do feel bad, though, for someone who could have gotten into Harvard had he not applied at all.</p>
<p>Financial aid is a reasonable justification for not attending, but at his family’s income bracket, funding his Harvard education would not have been a concern and apparently did not influence his decision. He fully contended that his preference for remaining in close proximity to his family was based on his mother’s culinary expertise.</p>
<p>That’s hilarious. :D</p>
<p>He should’ve just learned how to bake from his mom. Problem solved.</p>
<p>hi everyone… quick question: does anyone know how the email works? as in, will it give away anything in the subject bar or is the subject just like, Admissions Decision and you have to actually open it to find out? thanks and GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you have to open it to find out, but gmail shows the initial words on the side, so watch out!</p>
<p>^you can disable showing snippets in the first tab of the settings panel. :)</p>
<p>^I purposely enabled my snippets. I know what it’s going to say already; what more surprise can there be?</p>
<p>ksarmand, Harvard (reject) 2014</p>
<p>Ha ha good thing I don’t have to worry about this.</p>
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<p>There are likely not very many opportunities to bake at Harvard. I would suspect that he became very successful academically where he attended, though.</p>
<p>Thanks to all your excellent advice, I’ve disabled snippets! (I was worried about them)</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>I disabled them as well.</p>
<p>Will I get an awesome Boston accent if I attend Hahvahd?</p>
<p>@Sci Fri - OMG! I GOT IN TOO!!! Please please please please please please please can we meet each other?</p>