<p>As they say at the bank, "Past performance is no indicator of future results."</p>
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<p>I know quite a few Harvard grad students who had themselves completed their undergrad at Harvard who believe that the administration seems to be far more attentive to them now that they are grad students.</p>
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<p>What "administration"? The president and the Harvard Corporation are the only "administration" with authority over both the college and the professional schools. What kind of attention did these current grad students seek from that administration as undergrads, and what are they getting now that they didn't before?</p>
<p>Virtually every administrative office that students actually interact with -- libraries, registrars, deans -- is separated by school. If the Harvard med school registrar is nicer than the Harvard college registrar, so what? It's not like you have the choice to go to med school right out of college. The only meaningful comparison would be between Harvard College and other colleges.</p>
<p>Hanna definitely has a point. She went from Harvard College to HLS, so she definitely knows what she is talking about.</p>
<p>Again, I love how I can get close to professors here, but if I needed some space to breathe and do my own thing, I can do that too without feeling smothered by the small-campus feel.</p>
<p>Newedition - the problem is that if I asked you what the pinnacle of American educational institutions is, your clear and obvious answer would be: Harvard. It's not a case of students at LACs trying to make themselves feel better b/c they didn't make the ivy league, it is just a case of HYP being the most talked about universities in the world. There is a reason why you see such high concentrations of Asians at HYP tours. The truth is places like Amherst, Williams, Carleton, Swarthmore, and Grinnell can provide students as good of an education as the ivy league can. But since HYP maintain a better and more well known face value, parents of international students direct their offspring to 'the best America offers.' For the same reason that Asian parents send their kids to the most outstanding schools in the US, HYPS are the most talked about, praised, and slammed schools in the country.</p>
<p>If you asked me, "What institution is the pinnacle of the American education system?", I would tell you, "that's a terrible question."</p>
<p>I don't really understand the rest of your post. My point was that most of the people who say stuff like "Harvard doesn't provide enough attention to undergrads and only cares about grad students" are, in a word, best described as haters. What they should be focusing on is the fact that there are many other LACs where you can get just as good an education if you apply yourself. I really don't know what you were responding to.</p>
<p>the rest of my post incoherently supports my first contention that harvard is the pinnacle of American educational institutions (at least according to the general population). Basically random tangent. Who knows.</p>
<p>I was responding to your assertion that those people who argue that Harvard doesn't care about its undergrads are haters. Let me rephrase that jumble of words that was the 2nd part of my last post.</p>
<p>Harvard is</p>
<p>THE college every 1st grader wants to go to ==></p>
<p>(Probably) THE most talked about school in the U.S. ==></p>
<p>Since Harvard is probably the most talked about school in the US, Harvard also suffers from rumors that are passed around - one of them being that Harvard doesn't care about its undergrads. It's not that these people are 'haters,' they're just uninformed people who think they're informed about Harvard because what they think is what all their friends and their parents think - and all of those conceptions are based on (you guessed it) - 'rumors.' You're probably right though, those rumors had to start somewhere, and they were probably started by haters. But the majority of people espousing those sentiments are merely repeating what a friend of a friend of a friend told them.</p>
<p>So really, there was no point to that post. Awesome. I'm glad that I have to finish reading a book tonight, and I have procrastinated by arguing for something that doesn't involve me whatsoever. </p>
<p>AWESOME!!!!</p>
<p>167 pages to go. YES!!! </p>
<p>i love life.</p>