<p>What are the majors differences between Harvard and Yale?</p>
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<p>Silly question. Harvard is a second rate school that can’t come close to matching Yale in any way, shape or form.</p>
<p>I have got to agree with Gryffon, Yale simply is #1 when it
comes to crime.</p>
<p>We are trying our best to catch up ;)</p>
<p>One difference I have noticed: This type of question is more likely get responses from Yale loyalists than from Harvard loyalists, even on the Harvard board. You could say Yale has more school spirit, or you could say that Yale students are obsessed with being better than Harvard and Harvard students have better things to do.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as a “Harvard loyalist”</p>
<p>^^^ but there could be Yale dissers ;)</p>
<p>No doubt .</p>
<p>what do you want to study? general rule of thumb is Harvard for the sciences and Yale for the humanities.</p>
<p>^ Where is the evidence to back up that “rule?” Both schools are exceptional in both sciences and humanities.</p>
<p>They may be the two most similar undergraduate colleges in America.</p>
<p>I agree with vicariousparents, it seems that Yale students are much more likely to respond to a question like this.</p>
<p>It actually bothered me a bit during my campus visit how ready Yale students were to say something negative about Harvard, whereas in Cambridge students were just like, “Oh Yale’s a really good school too! Good luck with your decision!..Pick us!”</p>
<p>Make of that what you will. </p>
<p>For the record, I got into Yale and Harvard. I’m going to Harvard.</p>
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<p>Sure. Yale students think that you ought to have reasons for your decisions, and that the differences between the colleges have significance and deserve argument and analysis. They care about why they chose Yale. Harvard students, on the whole, are much more likely to think that a magic word resolves all issues – the magic word being, of course, “Harvard”. Why not? It worked on them!</p>
<p>LOL, JHS. I could make a list of the reasons why did NOT choose YPSM. :)</p>
<p>“Harvard is a second rate school that can’t come close to matching Yale in any way, shape or form.” </p>
<p>Sounds like a really intelligent, well crafted argument 
Guess I should have picked Yale…</p>
<p>Haha in all seriousness, I pro/con listed like crazy and did my due diligence–at the end of the day I just felt more at home at Harvard. What’s funny is that during high school, particularly my sophomore and junior years, I was obsessed with Yale and hadn’t considered applying to Harvard.</p>
<p>Harvard vs Yale, this war will never end.</p>
<p>^^^ yes, you have to show some respect to people who keep coming back to the
fight after losing every single one. After almost a 100 years of being #2, it must
be terribly depressing to be Yale</p>
<p>Haha Synth, really in the big scheme of things: Harvard, Yale, either school has great opportunities and graduates are often successful in the future. Even though I am heading to New Haven in the fall after being accepted to both, I have a lot of respect for Harvard and the education/opportnities one gets there. Really, it is all up to personal preference.</p>
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<p>Yale “exceptional” in sciences? I wouldn’t put money on that.</p>
<p>I turned down Yale because (1) my host complained about engineering my entire visit (even tho im not into that, it shed light on Y sciences as a whole) and (2) the prof I met on my visit admitted that yale didnt quite have the facilities (and therefore the opportunities) that its peers had. Ok fine, that knocks out Y for me. That’s not to say you won’t still get good scientific exposure there. But if you’re like me and want the best a uni can offer, it was a no-brainer. Besides, think about how much you (your parents really lol) are spending for these 4 years!!!</p>
<p>P.S also that inferiority complex that yale kids got really annoying. you dont need to screech on and on and on about how yale compares to harvard. i swear…at your orientation, you must get handbooks of how to respond when harvard beats you at something (“their football players were bought” “their sciences are just borrowed from MIT” “i heard people get shot in boston”)</p>