I said no to Harvard!

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<p>lookbeyond - My issue is not the student’s “pride” in their school. I would hope that in the Yale chat room that students would have Yale pride, I would expect the same in the Harvard and UMich chat rooms. My issue only relates to the need to cross onto other school’s chat room and attempt to elevate themselves by putting down that chat room’s school and brag about their own. When you show me the UMich CCers doing that in the CC Harvard chat room, I will accept your analogy.</p>

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<p>Exactly when did I blame coreur for anything? I was simply correcting her misinterpretation.</p>

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<p>“So much better than Harvard.”</p>

<p>LOL. This implies lack of argument and “insecurity” that you have to say you’re better than someone else lol. Why didn’t Harvard go with the: “So much better than Yale”? o.O</p>

<p>And more importantly why did Yale go with it?</p>

<p>Interesting.</p>

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<p>oh my god you all are ridiculous. The Harvard posters condescendingly chastise the Yale kids for saying Yale’s better; does no one see the hypocrisy? Instead of doing the same, and showing some amount of pride in your school and partaking in the inevitable Harvard-Yale rivalry, you sit and write snide, underhanded remarks that just make you look like a tool. </p>

<p>Which is why I chose Yale over Harvard - a school with pride and good-natured fun v. a school where the only thing bigger than their arrogance is the stick up their butts.</p>

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<p>I’m rejecting Harvard as well :]</p>

<p>Maybe even for Michigan, now wouldn’t that be somethin’?</p>

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<p>Merk-you miss the point of what is being said here in response to OP’s statement. My child is still deciding among colleges, one of which is Harvard, and ,while he does not partake in the exchanges on CC, he and his parents will not be saying "I said no to Harvard, " should he pick one of his other prospective colleges. We all know that some admitted students do select universities other than Harvard. Hopefully the students make a well-reasoned decision and will be confident in their choice. Thus they would not feel compelled to term their selection of a university in terms of what college they did not go to.</p>

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<p>I think everyone is taing the OP’s thread a LITTLE too seriously. this is collegeconfidential.com - a place for neurotic kids to talk in anonymity about college. I think that you misunderstood MY comment. The responses to this haven’t just been - what is the point of this? Most of them have been - “well, Yale kids always trash harvard. WE do not do the same. Insecurity? What does this show about their school? har har i disguised a toolbag, smug comment into a response laced with pretension.” which just makes me completely confident I chose the right school.</p>

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<p>Again. Joke.</p>

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<p>Haha, I disagree. I think that people should be able to take pride in rejecting Harvard. Even moreso than going to Harvard.</p>

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<p>That’s just ridiculous. The reason why Harvard has a reputation nonpareil, why someone can put (false) pride even in rejecting it, is the excellence of the people who actually go there. That is a real reason to be proud.</p>

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<p>Agree with Tyler09; having enough confidence in yourself that you can and will succeed without going to Harvard is way more impressive. :)</p>

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<p>I said no to Harvard…well actually, they said no to me…I still feel a bit like crap :(</p>

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<p>It was a response to a complaint about the presence of rich people…calm down brah.</p>

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<p>“does no one see the hypocrisy?”</p>

<p>No. Hypocrisy would be if we were all secretly posting on the Yale board while rolling our eyes at the Yalies ■■■■■■■■ here. But we’re not.</p>

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<p>you say it’s just a joke, but it’s pretty clear that insecurity is setting in</p>

<p>the harvard acceptance, it calls out to you</p>

<p>you wantses to say yes to it</p>

<p>[you’re</a> imagining it right now](<a href=“http://images.killermovies.com/l/lotrthetwotowers/young_smeagol.jpg]you’re”>http://images.killermovies.com/l/lotrthetwotowers/young_smeagol.jpg)</p>

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<p>no, hypocrisy is condemning someone for “trashing” another school and then snidely and underhandedly doing the same in their haughty responses.</p>

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<p>It’s not condemning though, it’s just laughing at fail. We (or at least I) laughed at the OP’s fail and then at Yale’s fail in general.</p>

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<p>You can say whatever you want about Harvard on the Yale board. The thing we’re rolling our eyes about is that you’re doing it HERE. If you don’t like it here, go home.</p>

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<p>haha yeah go ahead and laugh at Yale…it’ll probably be the last time you smile in the next four years. </p>

<p>oh and - shalashaska, it’s failURE if you’re trying to use the noun form. No wonder you’re going to Harvard.</p>

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<p>Can’t we all just agree that its impossible to say any college is absolutely better than any other college in every way for every student? Especially if the 2 colleges in question are both world-class schools with just about everything going in their favor.</p>

<p>So there really is no point calling the rival school a failure. If it truly was a failure, this debate/rivalry wouldn’t exist, unless the name-caller is also a failure. :p</p>

<p>Competition is healthy, but not when it becomes bitter.</p>