<p>20 out of last 22 in America's oldest intercollegiate athletic event - which begain in 1852.</p>
<p>Too bad Yale beats Harvard in undergraduate education =/</p>
<p>Not according to USNews.... or the overwhelming majority of common admits for the last two generations.</p>
<p>Oh Byerly. You make me smile with your unwavering defense for Harvard.</p>
<p>a battle between the ivies' second and sixth-best boats. whoopee.</p>
<p>Education, not perceived prestige, is what he's talking about, Byerly.</p>
<p>"Too bad Yale beats Harvard in undergraduate education =/" </p>
<p>Because I'm sure you have attended BOTH institutions and have an unbiased basis for judgement...</p>
<p>As a cross-admit to Harvard and Yale, I resent zephyr implying that people only choose H over Y for prestige, because I sure didn't.</p>
<p>I never said you did.</p>
<p>But removing prestige entirely, is Harvard that much better than Yale that it takes 80% of applicants? Outside of Cambridge, what makes Harvard a better college experience?</p>
<p>the people, the professors, the memories, the experiences, all from the people = it's all about the people. i'm not saying that yale is of lesser quality in applicants or anything. but, certainly the selected pools are different. (harvard had the most undergraduates/graduates become presidents right?? =D just thinking..)</p>
<p>[q] But removing prestige entirely, is Harvard that much better than Yale that it takes 80% of applicants? [/q]
???? do you mean cross-admits or something?</p>
<p>"But removing prestige entirely, is Harvard that much better than Yale that it takes 80% of applicants? Outside of Cambridge, what makes Harvard a better college experience?" </p>
<p>Well, you'll receive different reasons from everyone. For one, I don't want to be around a student body who constantly feels the need to bash another school to make themselves feel better. I don't think I could attend a school where 1/2 of the people focus more on Harvard than their own school.</p>
<p>I am absolutely devastated by this news, as a good friend of mine rows and assured us that Yale was indomitable this year. 6th place?! I was lied to!</p>
<p>This on top of the heartbreak that was The Game. I'm telling you, it's not easy being blue.</p>
<p>Also - many laughs at the poster who claimed that half the students focus on Harvard more than Yale ... WHAT, fine sir, are you talking about?</p>
<p>I certainly focus on Harvard when it comes to the major athletic rivalries (with respect to which they are decimating us!) I focused on Harvard last year as a senior trying to determine where to go to college. I focus on Harvard when I hear excellent news like their current stem-cell research initiatives.</p>
<p>But I don't go to Harvard, I go to Yale, and Yale gets a helluva lot more of my focus. Nobody I've met focused on Harvard beyond comical denigration of their name to uphold a friendly rivalry. </p>
<p>Also, it is impossible to make a judgment as to which school offers a better undergraduate education and I resent anybody who does so. That is a PURELY individual matter, and I challenge anybody to argue otherwise.</p>
<p>But you're still posting on the Harvard board...</p>
<p>...I've never been to the Yale board.</p>
<p>Just saying!</p>
<p>Yale has been more selective than Harvard for two of the past three years. It is much stronger for undergrad.</p>
<p>posterX...just stop!</p>
<p>sunglasses, I think the reason they're posting here is because this thread actually mentions Yale by name. If you'd visit the Yale board (which you're more than welcome to do!), you'd find that some posters from the harvard board make countless posts boasting about harvard and denigrating yale. Admittedly, some of this is spurred by PosterX's wild claims, but much of it goes way over what's necessary. Of course, it's something they'd never admit to, but regardless of what they admit, the reality is unchanged and easily observed by reading the threads.</p>
<p>PosterX, unless you can answer for "84.6% ocachoy" you can't say Yale is "more selective."</p>
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<p>We have previously noted that you are unable to show the work to prove that point. That, by the way, suggests that the quality of undergraduate education wherever you learned argumentation needs improvement.</p>
<p>Ya but Princeton beats all!!!!</p>
<p>Actually, the Princeton yield rate may slip, relatively, to #5 this year, behind not only Yale and Stanford, but also MIT, with Penn not far behind.</p>
<p>^^Perhaps he was referring to rowing instead of yield. Princeton did win the Ivy League title.</p>