<p>To be honest, I don't have a very specific reason for liking Harvard, since everything I've read about it is pretty standard: great faculty, great rep, great students, great activities, great program, great, great, great. Nothing seems to stand out...so why do YOU want to go to Harvard?</p>
<p>Isn't being great, great, great at everything reason enough?</p>
<p>Yea...I like to go to schools that suck personally</p>
<p>Strong film program/ matched with interesting core.</p>
<p>Not the only reason, but no tuition at all for families below 40K.</p>
<p>Well i think for most people the reason for why they want to go to harvard is so that they can say they went to harvard...even if they don't admit it.</p>
<p>That's pretty much why I applied. That and I was having a moment of doubt about Yale, so I sent off my Harvard application before I got my acceptance to Yale. But there's a reason why people want to say they go to Harvard and that Harvard is at or near the top of all college ranking lists. It's simply a great school.</p>
<p>Personally, up until spring break of last year, I wanted badly to go to Harvard just because it was Harvard, but when I visited, there was nothing that made me go, "Wow! This is definitely where I want to spend the next four years of my life." Yale did that for me. </p>
<p>I have nothing against Harvard, except maybe Byerly (Just kidding. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I would be frightened if the world thought the same way I do.), though I suspect my neutrality will be violated the moment I matriculate at Yale.</p>
<p>So the moral of my story is, if you have the opportunity, visit different schools and search for the one that just feels right.</p>
<p>I'll be frankly honest with y'all. I never once thought of applying to Harvard until about a month before December. I really didn't think Harvard fit me until I realized what Harvard offered me and what I was expecting out of a university.</p>
<p>I want to attend a university where I can find cultured, literate, intelligent, outgoing, and social people. I want to able to have academic debates about any variety of subjects with any person. I want to be able to find new people everyday from all parts of the world- from Alaska to Kenya to Thailand to Germany to Massachusetts. I also want to take classes at the Kennedy School of Government.</p>
<p>"great, great, great, great"--well, so are Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Chicago, Brown, and oodles of top 25 colleges</p>
<p>"academic debates" can be found at reed, chicago, st. john's, yale, etc.</p>
<p>"cultured, literate, intelligent, outgoing, and social people" are found at most colleges with perhaps the exception of UMiami (actually i don't know, just making a judgment)</p>
<p>Kennedy is the only reason I can think of!<br>
each school I am applying to is for a specific reason EXCEPT harvard and I need a good answer for my interview!!!</p>
<p>is this thread meant to be criticized for selecting Harvard or for posting why one would like to attend Harvard?</p>
<p>Just my guess.</p>
<p>Best law school in the country!</p>
<p>no; it's not reallly trying to be critical. i genuinely want to know why people want to go to Harvard a) so i have an answer for my interview and b) curiosity.</p>
<p>so then why did you just criticize my reasons for wanting to go to Harvard? The question they ask you is meant to elicit a genuine reason not some uber specific only Harvard answer. Its the honest truth. Dont try and fool the alumni interviewer and say well Harvard only offers x,y,and z and bc of x,y,and z I want to go to Harvard. They can clearly see through that.</p>
<p>harvard is one of my top choices. an urban location tops my list of priorities, and cambridge and boston would be great places to spend four years. </p>
<p>their english department inspires me (as do other schools' english departments, but still). their VES faculty are pretty amazing. </p>
<p>need-based financial aid rocks my world. </p>
<p>those are some of my reasons. </p>
<p>like Seven Nights, they probably would apply to other institutions as well, but having harvard fit into my overall college preferences was why i applied.</p>
<p>VES= Visual and Environmental Studies?</p>
<p>NavGirl: No, Yale has the best law school in the country.</p>
<p>Harvard's the best for medicine, though. And business school.</p>
<p>tallyrand--it's all pretty subjective.</p>
<p>Harvard is Harvard is Harvard.</p>
<p>Even though I've heard from everyone that Yale is better, I'd go to Harvard because it's carries more prestige, except on the East and West coasts,</p>