“there’s a certain level of institutional indifference at Harvard to undergrads that’s more pronounced than elsewhere”
I think this is BS. My point of view is someone who transferred from an excellent small LAC to Harvard College and then became a Harvard grad student, so I have an unusual degree of personal experience to use for comparison’s sake. Frankly, it isn’t even logical, because there is exactly one employee at Harvard (the president) who shares responsibility for undergraduates and students in the professional schools. I don’t have time to respond more today except that I’m an example of an alum living an impossible dream outside of the corporate world, and some of us get here by way of law school.