<p>If you are looking for undergrads to engage in conversation when you visit Harvard, there are many working for PBHA's Summer Urban Program at Phillips Brooks House. Training was last week and this week and then camp begins in the community next week. PBH is in the northwest corner of the Yard (see <a href="http://www.pbha.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.pbha.org</a> )</p>
<p>hi everyone, well we are suppose to go there tomorrow so we can make a decision! i am both excited, nervous and sitting on the edge of my seat. They are not coming through with the kind of money that Yale did, but my parents said for that to not have an bearing on my decision, so I will surely let you know! Do you think there will still be a good number of kids hanging around school or is it going to be empty? Thank you!</p>
<p>You have awesome parents. Good luck :) I can't help but hope you'll choose Harvard lol but I hope you have a great experience, either way.</p>
<p>It is too bad that your visit is taking place when the campus will be nothing like it is during the year. My son is currently up there, doing research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, but living in an MIT frat for the summer (he was in Grays Hall as a freshman, which is considered to be one of the nicer dorms). My best advice is to talk to as many Harvard students as you can. Pm me if you'd like to speak to my son. He had a great year. Best of luck in making your decision.</p>
<p>to me it sounds like you really really want to go to Harvard, and also because your parents said not to worry about the money, I think you should go to Harvard, and I think you'd go with no regrets. I was in the same position with Stanford, (Yale offered nothing), and I gave up a buttload of money to go to Harvard, but since I've wanted to go there for a long time, it was a worthwhile decision.</p>
<p>come to harvard!! my friends and i going are totally normal; don't worry about that at all! i choose going to a football game over studying for a test anyday. there are 27 of us from my school entering this fall too, so hey you can always hang out with our crew! sorry if i'm biased, haha. where are you from?</p>
<p>Wow, I don't think I ever heard of a school getting 27 of it's students into Harvard in one year!</p>
<p>Donemom: It's Boston Latin, a feeder for Harvard.</p>
<p>haha yeah, it's pretty cool. (there were actually 30 of us, but 3 chose to be 'different' and pick other schools lol.)</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, now I recall hearing about it. Must have some extremely high-powered students!</p>
<p>Of course it is...it's the school that produced the sorts of people like Leonard Bernstein...who went to Harvard afterwards. The Boston Latin has a great track record.</p>
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<p>30 admitted and 27 enrolling -- that's a pretty good yield rate.</p>
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<p>There isn't any honors program with distinction offered to freshmen, or to anyone. </p>
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<p>So they accepted you into a nonexistent honors program but you can't even remember what it is? You've been expecting to attend Yale since April or May, but you can't even remember the program you're into?<br>
Sorry, eastcoaster, but I don't find you credible.</p>
<p>I have to agree with ASAP. There is no honors program nor any sort of distinction given to any group of freshmen at Yale eastcoaster. Are you talking about directed studies?</p>
<p>... may be the "honors program" he is referring to. It is by invitation with a likely letter or by separate application with an EA or regular acceptance letter.</p>
<p>Students who get the invitation with a likely letter do not have to go through the additional separate application process to join the program.</p>
<p>Students who are in the program during their freshman year get a guaranteed paid summer research internship at the end of freshman year.</p>
<p>Question: You said you paid a deposit at Yale?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure there was no deposit needed...</p>
<p>I may be wrong, but I didn't pay one</p>
<p>A lot of this doesn't ring true if the "other school" is supposed to be Yale. In addition to points others have picked up on, I am skeptical that Harvard is allegedly offering no money while Yale is offering "a nice scholarship." </p>
<p>Within the Ivies where all financial awards are need based, it is certainly possible for aid packages to differ, but given Harvard's latest policy revisions it seems extremely unlikely that it would be offering nada while Yale is offering "a nice scholarship."</p>
<p>The OP declares that the only people "I know who went to Harvard or are still there, just are really uptight super serious studious kids who frankly look down on anyone else who is not. I do think the myth of the typical harvard student is changing for the better ... I know you can be pretty, cool, social and have brains to boot but I just don't know how accepted that particular demographic is at Harvard."</p>
<p>I note that the OP has never posted (under this screen name) before creating this thread.
Sounds like a bad psychological fit to me; the hardest thing to understand is why, given his predisposition, he applied to Harvard in the first place.</p>
<p>...choose Harvard over Yale. </p>
<p>Harvard tends to be more graduate student oriented. The only school with a better undergrad program than Yale's is Princeton.</p>
<p>at this level of study + scholarship, the differences between universities are so negligible that it really comes down to personal preference.</p>
<p>Come to Yale! Byerly is a good representative of Harvard.</p>