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<p>Regarding the comment that Harvard & MIT should just "mate,"
I started a thread in the Harvard forum on how MIT & Harvard in fact almost merged 100 years ago...</p>

<p>I have never said, since I never insert myself personally into these discussions, as so many do, including yourself. Nor do I ever urge people to attend college X over college Y. You are projecting a bit.</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=761434&postcount=8%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=761434&postcount=8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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am I incorrect in recalling that your own B.A. was not from Harvard? (I believe it was from the University of Michigan.

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<p>byerly didnt do his undergrad from harvard?? :eek: <strong>shakes head</strong></p>

<p>so on what experiences are you framing the opinions that you have? SSP?? grad school??</p>

<p>The Princeton guy (Stan Katz) quoted in the article was my Harvard interviewer. Cool. I've even got his phone number.</p>

<p>Harvard has never awarded "B.A." degrees to anyone. If I ever said I had a Harvard B.A. degree, you would be right to challenge the claim immediately.</p>

<p>that is not the question. </p>

<p>The question is whether you did SSP, undergraduate or graduate school (or none of the above) at Harvard. It is just out of curiosity to put your comments in better perspective reflecting your experience over there.</p>

<p>Byerly,</p>

<p>You can really be obnoxiously obtuse sometimes.
Harvard offers A.B. degrees which are the EXACT same thing
as B.A. degrees. The former is the abbreviation of the Latin name of the degree, the latter is the abbreviation of the English name of the degree.</p>

<p>B.A. (English order) = A.B. (Latin order)
but the degree is obviously the same, and one can interchange them at will... in fact, on my resume, I often use B.A. instead of A.B.
to conform to general standards (and believe it or not, there have been some who have gotten confused and thought A.B. means Associates degree).</p>

<p>You're just so quick... NOTHING gets by you, does it? You musta gone-ta HAAAHvud!</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>Byerly,
why do i get the feeling that you are trying to avoid my question :confused:</p>

<p>I will repeat it again for you.</p>

<p>Did you attend Harvard for undergraduate studies or for graduate school or SSP?</p>

<p>Let me ask you THIS, Mr. District Attorney: let's say I am only a graduate of the lowly Harvard Summer School - how does that then influence your reaction to any post I have made? And if so, which posts?</p>

<p>Byerly--I freely admit that I went to Yale. (Some people call it the Prada of higher education, but we feel that bragging is tacky :rolleyes:.)</p>

<p>Do you have anything that you'd like to share with the group?</p>

<p>Prada - overpriced, ugly (the earlier models, anyway), doesn't do anything an ordinary handbag doesn't do (in fact sometimes does less), not particularly high quality (cf. LV or Hermes) and in up to its expensively manicured ears in debt. Now if you had said the Porsche of higher education, that would be a different story...</p>

<p>Well, I was poking fun at the whole idea--but if you want to take this nonsense seriously, let me be a good guest on this forum and say that Princeton is the Porsche of higher education....</p>

<p>As usual, another forum that started of as something valid but has moved into Byerly realm.</p>

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say I am only a graduate of the lowly Harvard Summer School - how does that then influence your reaction to any post I have made? And if so, which posts?

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<p>:D it influences my response going forward because then I exactly know where you are coming from. Most of the UNDERGRADUATE students/alumni of HYPSM (the target audience of these threads) truly know that these schools and the quality of the students are more similar than different. The reason I (and others) have been responding to your posts is because you thought otherwise.</p>

<p>The fact of the matter is unless one is an admitted/enrolled student or an alum of these undergraduate programs IMO he/she dont have ANY idea of what they are talking about and dont deserve anymore of my response than a " :) " to reflect my feeling of utter amusement (with some pity as well)</p>

<p>i think that i got the answer hidden somewhere in there so :) thank you</p>

<p>??? huh????</p>

<p>:)</p>

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why do i get the feeling that you are trying to avoid my question about YOUR college background

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:D</p>

<p>10 characters</p>

<p>I don't intend to be quizzed by you.</p>

<p>To Byerly:</p>

<p>I've been trying to find the old posts that talked about your background, but I give up--there is just too much acrimony that led to too many deleted threads. </p>

<p>The most common rumor I'm finding at this point is that you graduated from Harvard in 1962 and then went to Michigan Law School. If I misspoke about your undergraduate degree, please accept my apologies--but why not set the record straight yourself once and for all?</p>

<p>ivyqueen, that's correct, which I'm confirming simply because I think the argument is distracting and I'd like to get back to business.</p>