<p>After reading up on some of the posts, I've gotta say, every one of you are absolutely crazy, as in good crazy.
Have you been adoring Harvard ever since you were young, or was it a recent ambition?
Did you <em>feel</em> that "OMG THIS IS MY COLLEGE" when you visited Harvard?</p>
<p>I hope you all the best of luck!
ps. don't forget to enJOY the journey, don't just plow through your way through the present to get to the light at the end of the tunnel!
=)</p>
<p>a recent ambition.<br>
actually, i had heard some bad things about the school and was ready to ED princeton. when i visited i was prepared to hate it- but i loved it. and then we entered the harvard-yale saga of 2005, and after multipe viewbook viewings (and salivations) i finally settled on harvard.</p>
<p>we'll see.
and im out of my mind. in the best possible way.
or at least thats what all the voices in my head say ;)</p>
<p>Until about a year ago I had never imagined that it would be possible (maybe it still isn't) for me to get in and applying to/attending Harvard seemed like a completely different world.</p>
<p>It's hard to explain...I'm definitely not a "hah-vahd" baby either.</p>
<p>It is also recent for me. I wasn't even going to apply, but my parents sorta begged me too. And in the midst of my research i really fell in love with the school. I'm really glad my parents got me hooked on it though.</p>
<p>Along with the other posts, it's been a recent thing for me as well.
Yale was my obessions since middle school all the way up until this summer actually, (check some of my earlier posts for proof). But I volunteered near the Yale campus everyday this summer and I just realized it really didn't fit me.
Harvard first sparked my attention when they sent me their info packet and I saw that they taught Manchurian, which is basically a dead language and I've always wanted to learn it. I visited Harvard over the summer and spoke to many people who graduated from Harvard, attended info sessions, did plenty of research into their government/film department and was blown away. I just honestly felt so comfortable and it just became a very natural choice for me.
The name brand of Harvard wasn't a factor in my decision, and it had nothing to do with how it is the rival of Yale.
granted, I most probably won't get in, but to everyone who will, please take advantage of the resources and the environment at Harvard! it is incomparable IMO.</p>
<p>I visited Harvard when I happened to be in the Boston area with my father a few years ago, but I wasn't really thinking about college at that time. I thought to myself that it was a great school where I thought I'd fit in, but didn't give it much more thought than that.</p>
<p>For a while I really wanted to go to a LAC or a non-Ivy private university, but as I realized how competitive I'd probably be and started really getting in to the college search, it just naturally came back to Harvard as my best fit.</p>
<p>i didn't even consider applying till like a week before the deadline! It's weird how I started liking Harvard...right now I have this obsession with post wwii irish literature, theres this one book that i love called The Poor Mouth which was originally written in gaelic, a dying lanuage; anyway harvard has an entire gaelic department,the only one of its kind in the country, and that's what piqued my interest, then i did all this research and they really have an amazing creative writing dept and eng dept (what is harvard NOT strong in? lol)</p>
<p>Quote by dwerbowy:"Yale was my obessions since middle school all the way up until this summer actually, (check some of my earlier posts for proof). But I volunteered near the Yale campus everyday this summer and I just realized it really didn't fit me".</p>
<p>My son also spent a summer at Yale and loved it, but later came to the same conclusion as you did and applied to Harvard. But he never was able to put into words why he couldn't see himself at Yale...can you explain what your impressions were and why you felt that way?</p>