<p>I'm going to Yale, and sooo happy about it. Anybody else deny the school that cannot be denied?</p>
<p>Go and stay in the Yale forum :D</p>
<p>Haha! :P</p>
<p>Well you have proven it’s in fact deniable, and 35% of Yale-Harvard crossadmits do the same :)</p>
<p>Sure - 21% of Harvard admits always go elsewhere. It’s great that you had terrific options from which to choose!</p>
<p>Is it me, or does anyone else not understand the purpose of this thread??? :)</p>
<p>Love it! What a great choice.</p>
<p>Can you share your stats?</p>
<p>YES! THERE SHOULD BE MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU! (I’m on the waitlist)</p>
<p>Ya, I agree with the person who mentioned that it’s kinda pointless. Congrats, you’re going to an amazing school. No one who really knows what they’re talking about cares when someone chooses Yale over Harvard.</p>
<p>I have to comment on my observation. There is a percentage of CCers who are cross admitted to Yale and Harvard and logically a portion of these admittees will choose Yale and a portion will choose Harvard (and even possibly neither). What I have been noticing is that is seems to me like those that reject Harvard for Yale are much more in-your-face about their choice than those that reject Yale for Harvard. It is making me wonder about students who ultimately choose to attend Yale. Is this representative of Yale students in general?</p>
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<p>Just a little mindless Yalie gloating I guess.</p>
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<p>There is a certain amount of man-bites-dog unexpectedness to their decision, and they are perhaps a little excessively proud of their slightly unexpected choice. But hey, we NEED these guys. Harvard plans for a 75-80% yield and admits accordingly. So if for some strange reason all 2000 admitees picked Harvard one year, it would be a disaster on campus - no place to put 'em all. </p>
<p>That’s why I don’t try too hard to talk people into choosing Harvard. I don’t let outiright lies about Harvard go unchallenged, but if someone comes on CC and says they prefer Yale, I say great, let them go to Yale. Harvard will get along just fine without them, thank you very much.</p>
<p>For med school, residency & internship, my brother turned down all the ivies (they all admitted him) and chose to go to UCSF, where he spent less than if he had attended our in-state flagship U! Those schools were surprised but he graduated with very low, manageable debt & has been able to do a lot that huge debt would have made much tougher.</p>
<p>^UCSF is supposed to be HMS-level in terms of quality.</p>
<p>wow… guess the OP feels like a badas/s huh? Typical humanities fangirls, lulz.</p>
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<p>agreed ;(</p>
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<p>I’m with you, southeasttitan! I think Harvardians are just upset that they have no school spirit. XD</p>
<p>^ Um, no Yalies are just insecure about their college’s worth such that they perpetually need to define themselves in relation to Harvard.</p>
<p>For me “school spirit” would be posting about your excitement in the Yale chat room. </p>
<p>I think LastStopForMe described well how these “I’m going to Yale cause it’s better than Harvard” comments posted in the Harvard chat room come across. </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong. I am thrilled that these posters are happy about their decision. I wish that for every student attending every school. I just think CCers can express themselves better ways.</p>
<p>“What I have been noticing is that is seems to me like those that reject Harvard for Yale are much more in-your-face about their choice than those that reject Yale for Harvard.”</p>
<p>Hm, yeah, you’re probably right.</p>
<p>But you forgot to mention that Harvard kids are more likely to disguise snide comments and covert Yale-bashing by enveloping them within supposedly well-intentioned comments. As opposed to Yalies who don’t try to hide their Harvard-bashing and tend to avoid the muttered-under-one’s-breath tone that Harvard people always seem to employ. Then they equate the openness with which Yalies profess their superiority as evidence that Yalies profess it MORE, when in reality it’s done to the same degree but by different means. ;)</p>
<p>For a prime example, check out coureur’s comment. Cheers!</p>
<p>Yale over Harvard? That means you have to live in New Haven rather than Cambridge. Bad choice.</p>
<p>Go Yale!!!</p>
<p>Yeah?</p>
<p>Well Harvard said no to me.</p>
<p>So ha.</p>
<p>HA.</p>
<p>Wait a minute…</p>
<p>Pink - Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I am not sure that I agree with your conclusion about Coureur’s comment that it was covert bashing or muttered-under-the-breath bashing. My interpretation of the post was that it was an attempt at explaining the behavior I have observed on CC. Had Coureur’s comment come unsolicited like the OP’s, I would agree with you. Coureur’s was a response to my post and I think that you may have read too much hidden meanings into his response. Coureur’s comment about the “unexpectedness” of a decision to attend one school or another and the public reaction is an unfortunate reality. That is not Harvard’s fault but the publics bad manners. The public’s behavior is something that a person, any person, has to get used to and how the person responds is a measure of that person.</p>
<p>I dealt with public reaction 4 years ago when my son opted to not attend his first choice school UPenn (for CS in engineering) for Tufts. We received a lot of odd looks and questions and explanations had to be offered. BUT never once did I, or my son, begin a conversation with “I dumped UPenn for Tufts”. He had concrete reasons for his decision but never once did he put down UPenn in order to feel better about his own decision.</p>
<p>Now my daughter has been accepted to Harvard, she has yet to conclude that this is where she will attend (though very likely). Again, we get the weird looks, the “you got to be kidding”, etc but again we respond politely and there is never the in-your-face “I got into Harvard” stuff". Should my daughter ultimately turn Harvard down, she will not be putting up “I rejected ******* for *********” thread/posts (yes, she has her own CC account). Doing so to any school is immature and disrespectful of the honor that that school has extended by accepting the applicant.</p>
<p>Be certain that the students of the school that my daughter decides to attend, will not find bashing of any other school an entertaining activity.</p>
<p>PS Armadeuic - I love your sense of humor!</p>