<p>Well, how do you know that he will not regret. To him, it seems that Harvard carries more weight than Stanford only because of Harvard's social prestige. </p>
<p>Among HYPS for undergraduate education (sorry for not talking about MS), Yale is the best-- I may offend a lot of people again, even that is the case, what do you want to study over there. It took me four months to make the decision to let my son go to Stanford.</p>
<p>You may also want to find out if those elite firms actually recruit Harvard "MS" students, not just undergrads or MBA students. It seems to good to be true that you can enjoy the benefit of H-bomb through such backdoor.</p>
<p>I have a hard copy of 2004 S&P 500 CEO profiles. None of them got "MS" at Harvard; the ones that were Harvard alums went there for college, law school, or business school. There are a few that went to Stanford for MS however.</p>
<p>Ok, this harvard program isn't a backdoor jesus. It has a 13% acceptance rate, that is hardly a backdoor by any means....an MS from Harvard is rear because the only department that tend to offer them are in science, which not many people tend to do...</p>
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<p>Well, believe it. Trust me, it works. Employers don't really care what degree you get: that's why you can have Harvard undergrads with humanities degrees getting jobs in private equity and hedge funds. Couple that with the fact that much (probably most) hiring is done through social networks, which means that what really matters is not what degree you get, but the people that you meet. You know what they say: it's not what you know, it's who you know. </p>
<p>I also have to disagree about this notion of the Harvard MS being a 'backdoor'. Frankly, it's no more of a backdoor than a Stanford master's is. After all, the Stanford's master's programs are notably easier to get into than the Stanford undergrad or the MBA program.</p>