<p>Harvard DOES have the Museum of Comparative Biology, chaired by the late and great Ernst Mayr. Not to mention E.O. Wilson. To be steeped in the lore of field biology, I'd go with Harvard.</p>
<p>This is dumb. we're comparing two of the best schools in the country as if any difference in quality is anything more than the splitting of a hair and or nit picking. You can't go wrong either way.</p>
<p>DD was accepted to both and chose H. Had I been in her shoes, I would have chosen Stanford. The Stanford campus, IMHO, is much nicer than the Harvard campus and the dorms are nicer at Stanford. </p>
<p>In any case, there are no wrong doors for those who are accepted to both.</p>
<p>Stanford's better. If you're going to graduate school then do H ugrad and S grad, otherwise do S ugrad.</p>
<p>^^^^ this is what I hate. saying its better without giving any reason. even then I doubt this person is in a postion to compare the two. (Unless you've attended both undergrad programs and Stanford's grad program.)</p>
<p>What if I said I had a close friend at Stanford ugrad, Stanford grad, and I was the last one?</p>
<p>Anyway I was obviously joking. If weather is a factor in your decision I recommend Stanford, if costs are then I'd say Harvard.</p>
<p>Last week, it was -45 windchill where I live.</p>
<p>So I started looking at California schools, haha.</p>