<p>Isn't Harvard the best university in the world?</p>
<p>I mean..I'm choosing college between HYPM(math), and nobody in this website recommend me the Great Harvard University. Actually, they say never go to Harvard..why?</p>
<p>Is Harvard really 'bad'? They say grade inflation, professors who don't care undergrad, and so on.</p>
<p>I want to hear from people who are attending Harvard now.</p>
<p>They're jealous bastards. Harvard is the best.</p>
<p>I will speak as a parent of a Harvard student. The students can't speak openly for fear of being denigrated by the drive by insulters. Similar to Dropping the "H-Bomb", you don't really have to say anything do you? Harvard is a good school... is there any question about that? Success sometimes requires one to bite his/her lip while smiling (OK smirking).</p>
<p>"the harvard syndrome":</p>
<p>Beat me to it, scottie!</p>
<p>Here is another instructive article on point:</p>
<p>"Working through the Harvard inferiority complex" - Yale Herald</p>
<p>Parent of Harvard math student here.</p>
<p>My S considered Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Yale and Stanford. </p>
<p>After going to the MIT admissions information session, he decided to rank MIT lower (it had been his # 1 choice because he had good friends going there). He felt that 1. he was not the engineering type and the Dean of Admissions had greatly emphasized MIT's hands-on culture; 2. he did not want to be surrounded by others with interests too close to his own. Did not apply (same reasoning about Caltech).</p>
<p>When he visited Yale, he felt the math and physics departments were not as good as others on his list. At the time, he was told of a slew of retirements in the math department. It would take a bit of time to replace those profs. Did not apply. He does know some very happy math students there.</p>
<p>He had a wonderful visit at Princeton; he was very impressed by both the quality of the math department and the friendliness of the faculty. In the end, though, it came down to location, he preferred Cambridge/Boston to Princeton. He was also ambivalent about Princeton's eating clubs. Did not apply.</p>
<p>He applied to Stanford because the due date for RD was the same day as Harvard SCEA notification. He was accepted, but decided not to go. Reason: he prefers Cambridge/Boston to Palo Alto, and NE weather to CA constant sunshine.</p>
<p>So now he is at Harvard and he is a pretty happy camper.</p>
<p>what ppl hate harvard? lol</p>
<p>NO WAY TUPAC POSTED !!!! EXCELLENT</p>
<p>yes i know</p>
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<p>"Working through the Harvard inferiority complex" - Yale Herald</p>
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<p>Byerly's Remorse?</p>
<p>The reason is simple: Harvard is the best university in the world and their petty jealosy give rise to considerable envy :rolleyes:</p>
<p>A recent Crimson column on the topic!</p>
<p>Yes, there is much validity in the possibility that because Harvard is the top dog, people feel the need to keep chipping away at it through jealously and indignation when they're rejected/not in the running in the first place.</p>
<p>It's a fantastic school.</p>
<p>I don't think many hate Harvard. What they do dislike is some of the students/graduates are pompus arrogant slobs who think that they are god's gift to this world. Many also dislike trolls who have habbit of tearing down other universities. They naively believe that pumping up their own school on internet chat boards may improve the # of applicants, yield or # of cross admits. Many people in real life have met or even have interviewed some of those slobs and some of them incorrectly attribute such behavior to their educational backgrounds.</p>
<p>Then they also read about Blair Hornstien or Kaavya Viswanathans and realize that everything that glitters is not gold.</p>
<p>Q.E.D. !!</p>
<p>I got accepted to Harvard and others so dont think i´m being openly offensive towards Harvard. Harvard's grad programs are arguably the best in the world, but at an undergrad level its just one of the many that are good. It actually suprised me to see far more bashing of other universities at Harvard (Yale, Dartmouth, and Williams) than Harvard bashing at any of the other universities. I would have to agree, though, that Harvard undergrads get this "lonely at the top" attitude that doesnt really fit reality.</p>
<p>Some people automatically hate Harvard for the same reason that some people automatically hate the NY Yankees, Microsoft, Starbucks, California, and the United States of America. People like success but not TOO much success.</p>
<p>I think the very people who hate Harvard force Harvard to be #1.</p>
<p>People in the United States (I say this because I haven't been to other countries in many years) seem to relish ranking all sorts of things, including sports teams, colleges, speed of airplanes, and even students. The masses (not specific persons) tend to set quality in terms of numbers; we cannot appreciate the fact that things are valuable in different ways.</p>
<p>In the same sense, colleges are valuable in different ways, just as people are valuable because of their unique natures. The people who hate Harvard for it being ranked #1 should realize that they are no different from the people who got admitted to Harvard and celebrate it for being #1. Both groups set colleges to numbers, not incalculable value, and both suffer from inane bias.</p>
<p>Personally, I don't care if people think one school is better than another; that's their opinion. For my part, I choose to believe that different schools have different things to offer. Needless to say, Harvard excels in almost all areas of post-secondary education and research, but I do not want to go out of my way to suppress its reputation to make myself feel better.</p>
<p>The syndrome piece was interesting.</p>
<p>are harvard people really people who wear glasses and study in the library all the time?! lol jk i know it's not true (right?!) but i was wondering, for all you lucky and talented and well-deserving harvard students out there, if life at harvard is largely revolved around book studying?</p>
<p>well people often have stereotypes about harvard as a collection of snobby, rich, and generally unfriendly bunch. although i think that it has no present basis , though i guess part of its history might have to do with it?</p>
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are harvard people really people who wear glasses and study in the library all the time?! lol jk i know it's not true (right?!) but i was wondering, for all you lucky and talented and well-deserving harvard students out there, if life at harvard is largely revolved around book studying?
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<p>I think this is far more of a Caltech or perhaps an MIT stereotype than it is a Harvard stereotype.</p>