Girl picked Harvard over Stanford, etc.

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<p>... even though the Stanford brochures were glossier, and the Stanford weather nicer.</p>

<p>"... Stanford’s rah-rah style tempted Kendrick, but ultimately Harvard pulled rank. Sometimes the best brand in the business just can’t be beat. Come September, Kendrick found herself moving into Canaday Hall on the northern tip of Harvard Yard, a newly minted member of the Class of 2009.</p>

<p>Kendrick’s choice makes perfect sense in the world of marketing expert Richard A. Hesel. To illustrate the influence of powerful brand names, Hesel points his clients to a certain ivory tower on the Charles.
“We put up ‘America’s Intellectual Powerhouse’ on the screen, and everybody says Harvard. Everybody,” says Hesel, a principal of the Art & Science Group, a consulting firm that specializes in marketing for higher education. “We put up ‘Free-Choice Curriculum,’ and most people guess Brown.”
Prestige, celebrity, presidential pedigree—you name it, “Harvard’s got it,” as Hesel says. And in a nation obsessed with image, the marketing power of a collegiate Cambridge setting—red bricks, ivy leaves, and Veritas—is second to none....."</p>

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<p>The weather is nicer at Stanford, but I'm not so sure that the brochures are glossier: Harvard puts out some very fancy brochures--all part of the branding process, I suppose.</p>

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<p>Heheh. Harvard sent me their brochure and application way early in July without any prompting. I don't know where it ended up - probably under a pile of old magazines in the bathroom. They just want to increase their selectivity by asking laughingstocks like me to apply.</p>

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<p>UPenn, I should say, has the nicest brochures by far...</p>

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<p>Upenn's brochures are goooorgeous, especially that blue little folder (if that's what you wanna call it)....!</p>

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<p>the quality of the brochure is inversely related to the caliber of the school</p>

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<p>In Harvard's brochure they directly attack the weather, so obviously its on their mind</p>

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<p>I don't think Harvard is all that great. Seriously. Its so...weird...so...serious? Honestly now. So one example of a person choosing Harvard over Stanford. What about the reversal, or better yet, the ppl who chose Berkeley over Harvard. Anyways I hope this thread dies here.</p>

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<p>"Girl picked Harvard over Stanford, etc."</p>

<p>Hooray! </p>

<p>Two people on my floor picked Stanford over Harvard. And they seem a lot more interesting than our prestige-obsessed friend in Canaday Hall. </p>

<p>Perhaps that same person will come to realize that she made a mistake, and attempt to transfer out west:
"And an internal Harvard memo from 2002 revealed that Harvard students rate their campus’s social life below many of their peers at other elite schools. The memo, first reported in The Boston Globe, ranked Harvard 26th out of a survey of 31 colleges in student satisfaction with social life. </p>

<p>Even Fitzsimmons admits that Harvard isn’t the warmest of places."</p>

<p>Byerly, even you should know that glossier brochures don't mean much.</p>

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<p>I know someone who picked Berkeley over Harvard..it had nothing to do with weather / money either.</p>

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<p>did you guys see MITs brochure... hehe i mean its not very shiny , but the sheer size of it makes up for what it lacks in glosiness.</p>

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<p>What was the point of this thread, Byerly. It seems like the flaming spam you claim to hate so much</p>

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<p>No need to be so harsh...</p>

<p>I think Princeton's brochure is pretty awesome too, but certainly not the best.</p>

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<p>i dunno what turns me off about harvard...i think maybe it's the seriousness. when i think of harvard, i think of really serious people. i'd like to study hard, but i def wanna be social too. college is supposed to be fun!</p>

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<p>When I think of Harvard, it’s always diversity, diversity, diversity.</p>

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<p>When it comes to HYPS who can judge the "best" anymore...all are so far at the top that the difference is statistically insignificant.</p>

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<p>Diversity how? Lots of legacies? Lots of Mass. kids? Lots of prestige-obsessed overachievers?</p>

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<p>. </p>

<p>The best measure, IMHO, is not the acceptance rate, but, rather, the RD yield rate - the fraction of admits who choose a school when they have a choice.</p>

<p>There are only four elites with an RD yield rate over 50%:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard - 70%</li>
<li>Yale - 57.5%</li>
<li>Stanford - 55.5%</li>
<li>Princeton - 52%</li>
</ol>

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<p>Byerly, those cant be the only schools with yield rates higher than 50%! are they?</p>

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<p>harvard is garbage compared to stanford
harvard has the most unhappy undergraduates</p>