Why Harvard over LACs

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@post#7 "Harvard College, where the undergrad experience is not a big priority to the university.</p>

<p>This statement seems to be made more often by those who have never attended Harvard as an undergrad.

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<p>Joshua Billings, a Harvard senior, says many undergraduates there “have little direct contact with professors, and are frustrated by poorly trained teaching fellows.” “You’d be stupid if you came to Harvard for the teaching,” said Mr. Billings, who will graduate this spring and then go to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. “You go to a liberal arts college for the teaching. You come to Harvard to be around some of the greatest minds on earth.”</p>

<p><a href=“Harvard Task Force Calls for New Focus on Teaching and Not Just Research - The New York Times”>Harvard Task Force Calls for New Focus on Teaching and Not Just Research - The New York Times;

<p>The sometimes wanting quality of undergrad instruction at H is no secret and the Crimson itself discusses it from time to time.</p>