<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”</p>
<p>No, they weren’t surprised. If there were an “HYP” for med schools, UCSF would be part of the trio. Members of the trio lost admits to one another all the time. </p>
<p>Anyway, for internship & residency, there’s no such thing as “they all admitted him.” You match at one program, period. If it’s your first choice program, you don’t know where your lower choices ranked you. My sister ranked UCSF first and Harvard second for her residency and got UCSF, where she is now teaching. But she wouldn’t say “I turned down Harvard.” She can’t know for certain that she was first on their list.</p>
<p>Mustangdad: I actually would rather live in New Haven than Cambridge. While I LOVE to visit Cambridge, I absolutely cannot imagine myself living there. Too many rich people. Yuck.</p>
<p>What I find bizarre is that the Ivies or Stanford would be surprised by the choice of UCSF over them. UCSF is widely considered to be the best med. school on the West Coast and outperforming or equaling most Ivy med schools with the possible exception of Harvard. In fact, some would call it Berkeley’s de facto med school because of joint programs and shared research and the fact that Berkeley didn’t develop a med school because it “had” UCSF, and a few decades ago Stanford lost half its med school faculty to UCSF professors/doctors who didn’t want to move out of San Francisco when Stanford moved its med. school. Many of the top med. schools aren’t Ivies, by the way.</p>
<p>Wow, I’m surprised at the reaction here. My thread was mostly just a joke, but I do feel like Harvard feels entitled to its students and I’m sick of people asking me “Why wouldn’t you go to Harvard?” as though it’s such an obvious choice.</p>
<p>People who post “I chose Yale over Harvard, haha!” convey an obvious statement. If they need to rub it in your face that Harvard was the latter then it should imply that the general motto is to choose Harvard, the “better” one.</p>
<p>But some schools got to win the hearts of some students, and you happend to be one of them :)</p>
<p>And me as a waitlistee can’t complain about you choosing Yale over Harvard: I pray more like you exist :D</p>
<p>southeasttitan - Sorry that your post was the one that finally caused me to react. It is very unfortunate that people make such ignorant statements to you. As I stated above, I went through that with my son when he chose Tufts over UPenn and risk that possibility with my daughter w/ regard to Harvard. But be grateful that you should have such a wonderful problem. Many would love to have to explain why they chose Yale over Harvard. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hanna - I think you misread Cato’s post like I did the first time I read it. He said that he said no to YALE not HARVARD. Cato did post it in the right forum - Harvard’s. :)</p>
<p>YAY! No Harvard for me either! People on this thread are ridiculous. The purpose was to show that not everyone actually goes to Harvard like some silly people expect them to.</p>
<p>The point, coreur, was to say that Harvard is not the best for every student.</p>
<p>Eating Food - Shame on you! Your post on the Yale thread, about the characteristics of HPY and why you chose Yale, was well thought out and wonderful. I commented about it’s quality there. </p>
<p>Here OP’s statement was:
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<p>That does not convey “that Harvard is not the best for every student”. If that was the intent, like Southeasttitan has more recently stated, then it was done poorly. You cannot blame people for reacting to what was actually posted.</p>
<p>Yes, Harvard is not for everyone. It is good that no single school is good for everyone, regardless of the school. The fact that “not everyone actually goes to Harvard like some silly people expect them to” is true but is that Harvard’s fault? Why direct the nose thumbing to posters in the Harvard CC room. I rarely see CCers posting the reverse in the Yale room. If they did, then I would say that a tit for tat is logical.</p>
<p>I think Hanna understood cato’s post properly. I think she was responding with irony - gently poking fun at those who apparently feel that the true mark of loving your school is gloating and bashing rival schools on the rival schools’ forums.</p>
<p>I have a college guide at home, written by students, in which the students are challenged to to describe their school in exactly five words. The Harvard students came up with “This ain’t college - it’s Harvard.” OK, pretty good. The Yale students came up with “So much better than Harvard.” Interesting - both groups judged their school in relation to the Harvard brand. I think that may explain why this thread exists, though no opposite thread exists on the Yale board.</p>
<p>Yes, gadad: the Harvard brand is the general standard that prestigious colleges are held to in the public mind. Does anyone say that UMich students have an inferiority complex when they call Harvard “The Michigan of the East”? Of course not, because it’s ridiculous. As is saying that Yale students have an inferiority complex because they beat on Harvard.</p>
<p>@ Shalashaska64: Fortunately for you, I’ll be taking my poor ass to Yale next year. I won’t be polluting the streets of Cambridge with my lesser family background.</p>
Many would love to have to explain why they chose Yale over Harvard. Good luck!</p>