<p>'If you guys want to get the best out of harvard, go to it's graduate schools."</p>
<p>Boy, this comes up over and over again.</p>
<p>I went to Harvard for both college and grad school. I know, conservatively, 100 people who did both (there were over 80 Harvard College grads in my law school class alone, and I had many college friends who did PhDs or went to the Med, Dental, Business, and Kennedy Schools at Harvard as well).</p>
<p>NO ONE out of those 100+ people who actually went to both said they thought that the best of Harvard is its grad schools. None. The college is the heart and soul of the university. If I could only attend Harvard for one of the two, I'd pick undergrad, hands down, and the vast majority of my double-degree friends would tell you the same (I know exactly one, a law school student, who valued his grad experience more than his undergrad, and there's a long story there). If you know even one double-degree person who disagrees, I'd like to hear about it; otherwise, you're just parroting stereotypes.</p>
<p>Comments taken out of context. It's obviously a great school, but not that much better (if better) than other ivy's. I mean i dont think it's very mature to blindly choose harvard over other schools. if you guys love harvard for whatever reason, then go right ahead and I would encourage you guys to enroll without a doubt. I'm just saying, if you guys really want to go to columbia, or penn, or stanford, but you just can't turn down harvard because it's Harvard, then it's immature.</p>
<p>Also, in terms of employment and career, there's as much recruiting (or even more) in other ivy's and elite schools. So although harvard wil give you amazing career opportunities, don't think that these schools are behind in those opportunities.</p>
<p>I'm deadlocked between Harvard and Duke right now. Seems like an easy choice, but it's really not. I won the AB Duke (not quite sure how recognized that is, though...), and I've probably loved that school since I was ten years old. It's home, it's comfortable, and I know without a doubt that I would have a great time there.</p>
<p>On the other hand, prestige and money disregarded, Harvard seems like somewhere I would love. It would take me out of my comfort zone and force me to grow, and I'd be forced to take a risk and try on something new. On the other hand, I've heard negative things about student-professor relationships, the social life there, and I would be just one of the pack there. At Duke, professors would single me out, I'd be identified as a top scholar, and I'd have so many opportunities.</p>
<p>I don't want to choose Harvard and regret not going to Duke, but I don't want to choose Duke and regret not going to Harvard. Any thoughts/advice?</p>
<p>If you love Duke, then go there. It seems like a sure thing for you, emotionally. But if you fall in love with Harvard more, that's a different story. Both are very prestigious schools.</p>
<p>tinam233, Duke is the much more practical choice in my opinon. You can graduate debt free and go to Oxford with a research stipend and be a member of a small network of amazing people who will go on to do great things. Plus, as a member of a tiny program you get excellent individualized advising and great access to resources. I don't think it's a question of atmosphere or school spirit, but rather do you want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars paying for college, or do you want to get paid to go to college? And the choice between Duke and Harvard isn't so obvious. Plus, if you want to do something like economics, public policy, environmental science, or biomedical engineering, Duke is the more obvious choice.</p>
<p>Well, it just goes to show...Harvard EA, has been turned down for Brown RD...by me !! Yeahh!!! It is just a matter of "Feelings, nothing more than feelings, trying to ..... " Has anyone ever heard that song??</p>