<p>I’m curious…what do you harvard ppl like about it? Everything I hear about the undergraduate school is negative</p>
<p>Pretty much everything except the food ... The dorms are amazing, the people are some of the most interesting and most fun that you'll find anywhere ... hmmm most of my classes are great, especially (gasp) Expository Writing, and the professors are actually very nice, visting sections and begging us to come to office hours. LOL Also, there's an abundance of extracurriculars so there's always something going on, and there are so many other colleges around so it's easy to find parties if leaving campus is your thing. Plus Cambridge is my kinda town - not too big and scary for me like NY, but nice and urban so I don't need a car or anything and there's still plenty going on. I also love that my friends and I had a snowball fight in the middle of the street last Friday. :)</p>
<p>the fact that if i get in, it'll be FREE
<40 financial aid initiative!!</p>
<p>I like Harvard's undefeated Ivy record going into The Game this weekend.</p>
<p>i like the greek life</p>
<p>It has been said that political correctness is to publicly espouse that which you privately do not believe to be true, or in other words, to refuse to say what you really think.</p>
<p>I will dare to be politically incorrect and say that for a lot of Harvard people, the best thing about the place is the prestige/mystique. I know that may come off as uncouth, but let's face it. The truth is, a lot of students are at Harvard primarily because of the name. Not all students - I didn't say all. But a lot of them are. They may not want to tell you that that's what they like best about the school, but for many of them, it's the unspoken truth. After all, imagine a world where Harvard had everything it has today - all the academics, all the profs, all the money - all of it, except for the big name. I think we'd all have to agree that a lot less students would want to go there.</p>
<p>"<40 financial aid initiative!!"</p>
<p>Represent. That's what made me truly interested in the school at first, as well. </p>
<p>I agree with sakky, but I think everyone can accept that it's always been the truth in its own way. There was a time when I was really turned off by knowing the truth in that statement, and I decided not to apply, but I did a lot of thinking and now I'm back. It's not right to be put off by the mystique because it's a great place in every other regard, too. I think that even if a student chooses H for the wrong reasons, after he or she arrives it will be like they had the right reasons all along and there will be no better place for them to be. Most top schools are like that, as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>More tangibly, I love the housing system. If you really needed a reason.</p>
<p>EC's...so much South Asian stuff! The fact that everyone at the school cares about school and isn't just there for the heck of it (or they wouldn't have gotten in!)...competition and camaraderie (sorry, can't spell!) in one</p>
<p>i dunno, a big name is kinda a turnoff for me. </p>
<p>What i like most about it is 1) the drive and passion of the student body, 2) the emphasis on extracurricular life and 3)location location location -- I see myself liking it there. </p>
<p>Though I hear academics are pretty good to :)</p>
<p>I think it's funny- there was a poster that said "the profs are great, sometimes they even visit sections..." what are the profs there for if they don't even teach the classes?</p>
<p>I in no way mean to bash harvard, btw. I know it's a great school, I'm just wondering if classes with professors who don't come is actually that appealing.</p>
<p>Apppro-In a typical intro class, the prof lectures, but grad students lead groups of 15 or so in discussion sections after the lecture. For a prof to attend one of these sections is definitely going beyond his/her requirements.</p>
<p>"What do you like about Harvard?"</p>
<p>Nothing</p>
<p>harvard has the best professors in almost every field. take economics for instance. you have cooper and rogoff and sen at the same school, and they teach intro classes too. !! that's unbelievable and enough reason in and of itself. they might be busy people, but they have office hrs and anyone motivated enough can easily get a hold of them. you feel like you're a part of history rather than just learning about it when your professor was former IMF chief economist and publishes daily articles in the FT. </p>
<p>in my opinion no other school comes close to having such distinguished faculty in all of its fields.</p>
<p>I love the Boston-Cambridge combination.</p>
<p>Cambridge = nice little quiet town.</p>
<p>Boston = booming city.</p>
<p>And you can have either at the flash of a subway card.</p>
<p>Ubercollege-I wouldn't call Cambridge a nice little quiet town. To me, that describes Amherst or Williamstown... both of which bear little no no resemblence to Cambridge.</p>
<p>Well, I know, but it's all relative. I come from a similar background. My hometown is pretty much like Cambridge--busy, but not annoyingly busy or annoyingly quiet. And it's right next to a huge city (not as big as Boston, but big). I have never, ever lived in a genuinely quiet town even for more than a day.</p>
<p>That's just what I liked.</p>
<p>I guess it's just weird to me to see that professors lecture and that actually having them lead discussion groups is "going beyond what's required of them." My school doesn't use TA's except to sometimes grade papers in classes if they are large, so I'm very used to having the professors always available, and all of the discussion groups are run by the professors. Again, it's just a difference in schools. I don't mean to start a "Harvard is bad" discussion. It was merely an observation. I personally think Harvard is great and would love to go there for grad school. I was somewhat interested in the undergrad program, but chose not to apply as I learned more about it. It's the right fit for some people, and Cambridge is actually a very nice place...though not a "little quiet town."</p>
<p>I have somewhat of a random question. </p>
<p>I noticed, for example, in this topic someone said "I think that even if a student chooses H for the wrong reasons..." </p>
<p>In another forum, people say "My S had his interview..." or "My D is worried about this..."</p>
<p>Just wondering why people say "H", "S", and "D" instead of "Harvard," "Son," and "Daughter."</p>
<p>its groovy man</p>