<p>Moviebuff you are my hero! :)</p>
<p>LOL just read dropitlikeitshot's post..</p>
<p>"Columbia over Harvard? One question...why? I mean, Columbia is a good school, but is it GREAT? Absolutely not."</p>
<p>BAHAHAHAHHAHA That is the poorest argument in favor of Harvard over Columbia that I have EVER seen. You stated in abominably vague terms about the calibre of the Columbia, failed to compare it to Harvard, and you think you just posed a rhetorical question?? baahahahahh The fact that you recognized it as a "good" school and then adding "great", shows your deep-rooted insecurity that maybe Columbia indeed IS better... Goodness knows.</p>
<p>OH and I loved your final comment: "Absolutely not" What a definitive answer!!! haahhaa You're not really going to Harvard are you? I wish you luck with ur argumentative essays and class discussions (that's if you continue talking in class whilst wondering why everyone is rolling their eyes or chuckling)</p>
<p>Let's have a minute of silence in your favor.</p>
<p>Ah. That's good.</p>
<p>I would turn down Harvard if I got into the London School of Economics</p>
<p>I've realized since I last posted in this thread that I have no idea which school I really want to go to. I need to visit them all. Harvard is amazing, but so are so many other schools...</p>
<p>For Yale. woooooooooo</p>
<p>M I T ! ! !</p>
<p>I would have turned down Harvard for Wharton and possibly Princeton.</p>
<p>Yale! Harvard's great and all, but i love yale. Bulldogs 2011!</p>
<p>See you at the game!</p>
<p>I'd turn down harvard for $850,000.</p>
<p>I would turn down HAravard for MIT and maybe even Princeton..</p>
<p>It took a while, but Mathson is turning down Harvard for SCS at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>World Peace.</p>
<p>ye, how about weapons of mass destruction to act like a real mature adult!</p>
<p>I turned down Harvard for Stanford! Go Cardinals!</p>
<p>I would turn down Harvard for Wellesley (with adequate financial aid).</p>
<p>dahliaandpearls: Did you apply to LSE? I would have thought it would be easier to get into than Harvard. I applied for LSE and Columbia (grad school, though) and was declined at Columbia, so I'm going to LSE next year; I didn't even bother with Harvard because I didn't think I'd get in.</p>
<p>^^ New Haven is a much better college town than Cambridge/Boston. Harvard's campus is dead because the city it is in is so spread out. You have to take a subway to get away, which takes an hour, and then the subway stops running around midnight so you need to take a $30 cab ride back. That totally divides the campus between people who can pay to party, and people who are stuck in their dormrooms staring at their computer screens. MIT has the same problem, which may be why Harvard & MIT have the nation's highest college suicide rates. Meanwhile, within a few blocks of Yale you have hundreds of great, some student-friendly and others very upscale, restaurants, shops, bars, clubs, 24 hour diners, cafes, theaters and the like, that can be taken advantage of every day. The area of Downtown New Haven around Yale used to be a little quiet, but in the past 5 or 10 years it has become a bustling center for nightlife and college life for all 50,000 students in the immediate area and there are now hundreds of places to go at all hours, and sometimes so many students that the narrower streets have to be shut to traffic. There used to be empty storefronts 5-10 years ago but the influx of the nightlife scene, as well as thousands of luxury apts & condos built, has totally changed that. Because downtown New Haven is a busier/later-night area, it is actually much safer than Harvard or the area around Harvard (yes, both New Haven and Cambridge/Boston also have "bad" areas away from the campuses, but Boston's "bad" areas are much worse because it is a larger city.. and Boston and Harvard Square in particular shut down earlier than downtown NH). </p>
<p>All in all, campus life at Yale isn't "sucked out," like it is at Harvard, and the campus is much denser, so it is hopping with activity 24/7, with students constantly running into their friends and classmates and going to various parties, theater events or lectures. In addition to Harvard being in a horrible college town, the campus itself is much more spread out than Yale's, so it is harder to get from your dorm room to every random party in every particular night. At Yale, all the dorms are within a 2 minute walk of each other. Furthermore, if that isn't enough, NYC is an easy day trip from Yale, and NYC is a much more interesting better place to visit than Boston--although NYC is also a horrible college town, even worse than Boston/Cambridge in terms of how it totally kills all campus life, it makes Boston look like a boring village in Canada by comparison. Also, it's easier to get involved in city government/nonprofits/businesses/city life at Yale, which is across a 400-year-old town green from the main City Hall and the city's financial district. They are much more receptive to students as citizens of the city. In Cambridge you would just be one student among millions of residents, far away from the city hall or anything of import, and there's no way you're going to get meaningfully involved in how the city or its institutions work.</p>
<p>excellent description of yale/new haven posterx. i LOVE new haven- cute little college town during the day, great party scene at night!</p>
<p>I would hardly call Boston/Cambridge a horrible college town. In fact, many people believe it's the best place to be because Boston is just full of students. Harvard might not have much cohesion within itself, but there are endless college friends to be made in a city whose main population is students. It's not as hard to get involved with the community as you make it out to be either...from my experience with the city. Of COURSE boston is receptive to students as citizens of the city...boston practically is all students! Having an .80$ t pass id say is very student friendly... I'd much rather be in Boston than New Haven. But I suppose I've got a very obvious bias. Just dont write off the city so easily.</p>
<p>What are you talking about posterX????? Everyone knows that New Haven is a complete pukehole once you leave Yale's (beautiful, I will admit) campus.</p>