Scenario: Harvard Has Accepted You.

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>This can apply to anyone.</p>

<p>You have applied to Harvard yet you know you have no chance of being accepted. You're just an average student, nothing really outstanding. </p>

<p>Would you attend Harvard if they accepted you? If you attend Harvard, you cannot drop out and "move on" to a different university because you do not have sufficient funds. </p>

<p>Would you just attend a university in which you believe you could graduate from or take your chances at Harvard? </p>

<p>Personally, if this happened to me, I'd just attend Harvard and work my ass off.</p>

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<p>Nope, they don’t have my major =P</p>

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<p>Yeah cause it’s really hard to graduate from Harvard :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>I’d go to Harvard…
I think you’re overestimating how difficult it is to take classes at Harvard. My response would be different if it were Caltech instead of Harvard.</p>

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<p>Hmm… maybe I should change the question from Harvard to a university you believe is the most difficult.</p>

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<p>I heard MIT is pretty difficult… ;o</p>

<p>My number 1 choice lol. So I’d definitely attend.</p>

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<p>I doubt many people here are afraid of going to a “harder” school</p>

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<p>ThisCouldBeHeavn, the catch is if you fail to graduate, you cannot attend a different school.</p>

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<p>Obviously…grade inflation baby!</p>

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<p>Never go.</p>

<p>Most students accepted there are destined to succeed. They don’t accept plain hardworking bubs. They accepted hardworking “geniuses.”</p>

<p>I would never graduate and it would be a waste of my young adulthood.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t go to any school that I wouldn’t be able to transfer out of if I failed.</p>

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<p>If i got accepted to Harvard, I would frame the acceptance letter. But I wouldn’t attend. I’d rather go to a small LAC</p>

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<p>Harvard is notorious for grade inflation so I don’t think many people here would have a problem with difficulty. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t even apply there to begin with because there are much better (and cheaper) engineering schools.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t want to go, not enough booze.</p>

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<p>I cannot transfer because I don’t have enough money? So do I get financial aid or something or do I have to pay 60K/year to go? If so I wouldn’t because I wouldn’t ever graduate due to lack of money.</p>

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<p>Truthfully I’d go to Harvard just because, and probably because I’d give into family pressure. I’d rather go to my first choices, though. Overall I don’t care about what college I go to, as long as it’s excellent and intellectually stimulating, and I’m sure Harvard fits that criteria.</p>

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<p>If I got accepted to Harvard, I would have free tuition anyway because they are a need-blind school. So, unless I got accepted into my dream school, I would totally go to Harvard. If I get accepted into my dream school, I would just say I got accepted to Harvard but decided to go to a different school.</p>

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<p>There’s no cause and effect relationship there</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t go because I don’t think it would be my personal best fit. But I agree with the arguments about grade inflation… this is rampant at a lot of top colleges because it looks bad for them if a bunch of their students aren’t doing well.</p>

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<p>Well if there wasn’t grade inflation then people who would normally go to Harvard and get a 3.5 (and now without grade inflation get more like a 3.0) would just go to a good public university and get a 4.0. I’d much rather have a 4.0 where I am (at a public university) than a 3.0 at Harvard.</p>