<p>I attended both Harvard and Stanford. I found Harvard’s strength to be its research library, but the community was extremely unwelcoming, isolating, and socially exclusive. An intellectually driven young man with an outgoing personality, I was perceived as a social and intellectual threat on the Harvard campus and terrorized and rejected accordingly. Stanford’s library holdings are dwarfed by those of Harvard, but both the undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford are less obsessed with one’s personal pedigree. Stanford’s campus clearly has its advantages, though Harvard has a slight edge on campus-adjacent nightlife. I found the quality of instruction at both institutions to be excellent.</p>