<p>well, i just felt like asking. Thats really much it.</p>
<p>But, Harvard and Yale are so alike, that i believe that if you want the little bit more prestige, go for it. Granted you won’t commit suicide, what’s the worst? And Yale is really well known, soyou can’t go wrong that way either.</p>
<p>Right?</p>
<p>^ Go for it? If you’ve deduced that Harvard and Yale are identical in every single meaningful criterion, yes. It’s an incredibly sad reason to pick a school and is reflective of some self-esteem issues. You want to really impress that random guy you never see? Next time just walk up to him and tell him your SAT score. He might not react in awe as much as in surprise and maybe slight offense that you avoided social “tact” (AKA pretentious horse manure) but at least you’ll know that inside himself he recognized that you’re a smart dude.</p>
<p>With employers, grad schools, etc. There’s a handful of schools, H and Y included, that are perceived on an elite level to a point where any difference in perception between a degree from one school or another is truly negligible. It’s probably true that H has the most impressive student body in the world (and this is probably because it attracts noticeably more kids of the highest echelon of qualification, though this is in itself most likely something to ignore because you can probably count these kids with your fingers and toes and odds are you’re not one of them whether you’re at H or Y), but that’s not even close to the same as every H student invariably having a leg up on the Y student because the student bodies are in so many ways incredibly similar. Odds are, being the average student at H or Y, nothing’s going to be different for you.</p>
<p>Strangely, few people from my high school (in NC) apply to Yale. The top kids apply to Harvard and Princeton. No idea why, but hopefully this means I have less competition :).</p>