<p>I agree. He's not Harvard material. </p>
<p>I trust that during his whirlwind tour on a rainy June 28 some of those "uptight super serious studious kids" were still in Cambridge to "frankly look down on" him - causing him to lose faith in his ability to handle the greater challenge. </p>
<p>Yale has already taken enough of a cross-admit hit in being forced to take 56 off the waitlist this year. </p>
<p>I say throw this fish back!</p>
<p>I would have to agree that the OP's seems to be playing with the board.
HYP and some of the elite LAC's all come pretty close with their aid packages as they all use similar parameters in assessing need.</p>
<p>I would doubt that we will see any more posts from this possible "fake-phoney-fraud" (The words of Robert Gigante)</p>
<p>Yes. In the words of Sally Donahue, Harvard College's Director of Financial Aid, said that they do need analysis through federal formulas. The difference lies in the financial aid budget of each college and each college's policy for awarding financial aid for a certain income bracket. For example, my financial aid package for Harvard was much better than the package from Columbia.</p>
<p>Harvard has an "unlimited" financial aid budget (that is, the FAS unanimously agreed that the College can spend as much money as it needs for financial aid in order to sustain its need-blind admissions policies).</p>
<p>When it comes to fin-aid, Columbia while more generous then NYU will not compete with HYP, Amherst, Williams and other top LAC's.</p>
<p>My personal take on Harvard vs. Yale, not that anyone necessarily cares: Yale is smaller, probably has a better undergraduate focus, and is stronger in certain humanities. Harvard is bigger, better in hard sciences, has better international name recognition (if you're someone who cares about that) and, frankly, has a much much better location. Reasonable people can prefer either one.</p>
<p>Wow, I love how the Yalies have come to Harvard threads to discourage someone from picking Harvard over Yale. That doesn't seem...a little desperate? I sure hope that my classmates aren't posting in such a way on the Yale board. I wouldn't know though, because why would I ever go to it?</p>
<p>They're trying to stop the alleged defection of an SCEA admit, if the OP is to be believed.</p>
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<p>How can one person be representative of the extremely diverse student body of a university that's been around since 1636? </p>
<p>Give me a break.</p>