<p>Thanks for keeping us updated. Good luck with Stanford, but how nice to have UVA as “Plan B”!</p>
<p>Thanks for the update and hopefully your S will hear more good news soon!</p>
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<p>Or a masochistic personality.</p>
<p>Re: college T-shirts. D said logo garb from other colleges was a popular fashion trend at her school.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed for your son, OP!</p>
<p>Any news? I am so hoping your son gets in!</p>
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<p>The WHOLE freshman class?!! Hard to believe that he couldn’t find one humble soul…</p>
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<p>we need one of those little eye-rolling emoticons.</p>
<p>i don’t think transferring from one ivy league school to another is going to change the number of huge egos this kid perceives.</p>
<p>^Here ya go. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>But I don’t think ONE is enough.</p>
<p>:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:</p>
<p>Yep, I went to school near Boston, sigh…</p>
<p>PS I fully support OP’s son - my son didn’t like Harvard either.</p>
<p>UVa and your son would be a great fit. It is a wonderful setting, and a great place to get a great education. Best of luck on the Stanford wait.</p>
<p>OP, you’ve got a win-win going here. Congratulations on great admissions management of a really tricky set of decisions.</p>
<p>More on college logo garb. Our junior high went to a very restrictive dress standard last year. The only “writing” allowed on clothing is college logos. No Abercrombie, GAP, etc. Suddenly college garb is coming out of the woodwork, truly raising awareness of all kinds of colleges. Some of our faculty and students have gone to great lengths to wear shirts from obscure colleges to spark conversations, and of course, also wear their alma maters, or that of their parents and siblings. </p>
<p>This was a great decision for our school!</p>
<p>riverrunner ^^^^Re college logo garb–I like that!</p>
<p>I hope the OP’s son visited Harvard more than just that one weekend. Our D didn’t like a particular school either during her 1st trip and thus put it further down her list. After visiting a 2nd time, something must have clicked, because it rose to the top of her list.</p>
<p>I couldn’t read all the posts in this tread to see if he had prior visits to Harvard, but if he didn’t, that was a huge step that was skipped. Water under the bridge now…</p>
<p>I think the OP’s son made a pre-app visit, an accepted students visit, and a “go back and triple check” visit.</p>
<p>What happened?</p>
<p>I also want to know what happened. It was very fun reading this thread. Its like a story. Did he get into Stanford?</p>
<p>Even though it has prestige through the roof, I’m kind of surprised so many people had a fit over the OP’s son turning down Harvard. From what I’ve seen of Harvard, it would be “just right” for an extremely narrow segment of the graduating high school seniors…the ones who are not only academically brilliant but sort of pushy and obnoxious enough to get the most out of a situation in which many of the world’s most pushy and obnoxious people are present as undergrads, grad students, and professors. Maybe I could throw in the word “pretentious,” too.</p>
<p>Even if I had the brains to go there (I didn’t/don’t), I can’t imagine going there, as dealing with the people there was like fingers on a chalkboard to me. UC-Berkeley struck me as being the same sort of people, but without the old money, and on the other coast.</p>
<p>The main reason, I’d advise someone not to go to Harvard is because you’ll spend a lifetime trying to dispel the preconception that you must be pushy and obnoxious since you attended. Oh and pretentious too. Grrrr. :rolleyes: again.</p>
<p>Oh these are nonsense prejudices. </p>
<p>One of my tenants, for example, a recent Harvard graduate, is a bubbly African-American woman from Louisiana who loves to cook. One of my best friends is a thoughtful, eccentric Harvard grad, prone to off-the-wall remarks. Personal anecdotes reflect your personal experiences and are not objective truth.</p>
<p>“The main reason, I’d advise someone not to go to Harvard is because you’ll spend a lifetime trying to dispel the preconception that you must be pushy and obnoxious since you attended. Oh and pretentious too. Grrrr. again.”</p>
<p>True, so very true. ;)</p>
<p>I know a lovely girl who goes to Harvard, she is smart, driven ,lovely girl. She is not obnoxious or pretentious. Harvard is not for everyonethough. I admire people who make choices based on what is right for them, not what people expect or how something is ranked.</p>