Harvard is not pretentious or stuffy!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>In reading many of the posts on this board (and articles about Harvard in general), the school is described as stuffy and its students as pretentious. They are also frequently described as blue-blooded white people. Nothing could be further from the truth!</p>

<p>I went to law school there. It's been a while, but when I was there, which wasn't that long ago, the students were:</p>

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<li> Very ethnically diverse.</li>
<li> From a variety of backgrounds. There was a disproportionately large number of affluent people there, but the same would be true at any private college.</li>
<li> Not snobby. People made every effort not to "drop the H-bomb" by revealing where they went to school when they were off-campus.</li>
<li> Pretty well-rounded and accomplished, and there were many wonderfully caring people there. (Within the first weeks there, one wonderful classmate of mine baked cookies for me and left them in front of my dorm room door.)</li>
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<p>So all of this Harvard-bashing by people who didn't get in: at least make criticism of Harvard truthful!</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>Entrepreneur, it’s a lost cause. </p>

<p>If people want to believe everyone at Harvard is Thurston Howell III, they’re going to believe it, no matter what we say or do.</p>

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<p>Sikorsky - kind of hard to dispel the stereotype when people find out that the admission package includes a reservation form for a slip at the Boathouse for the student’s yacht.</p>

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<p>Oh. A “Harvard people are rich snobs” joke.</p>

<p>How novel.</p>

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<p>Disappointing response, Sikorsky. I thought Harvard people had a more highly attuned sarcasm detector than that. They certainly did in my day.</p>