Why Harvard?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>I was just wondering, what are your reasons for applying to Harvard?
(besides the name of course)</p>

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<p>N. Gregory Mankiw teaches freshman econ, Harvard is in Boston, and of course, academics. In about that order.</p>

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<p>It is the most prestigious institution of higher education on the face of the earth.</p>

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<p>^^^^WOn't Harvard think that is too generic?</p>

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<p>we're not looking for approval from harvard here, i just wanted to know why you personally want to go there</p>

<p>i think it has something to do with the atmosphere there, i cant really describe it in words, but when youre on the campus you just feel different, like youve become empowered or entered the nexus of learning and idea exchange for the world</p>

<p>wow that sounds so cliche</p>

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<p>ha i doubt i can get into any elite; my guidence counsler says cornell is a strech. if i can get into any elite college im satisfied. i suppose if i had the choice of which elite i would go to, i would pick harvard-its the most prestigious. most of the elites have similer academic values, and atmospheres. so ceterus pairibus (all things equal) harvard simply has the most prestige (even though harvard prestige is only slightly nicer then yale or princton or stanford levels of prestige) in any case, take the one with the nicest financial aid package etc. good luck to all.</p>

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<p>Mankiw is a pimp.</p>

<p>Although, I turned down a dinner discussion with him tonight (in exchange for one with stephen pinker).</p>

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<p>boston baby!
that's about it.</p>

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<p>Because it's something new, and it isn't my undergrad institution.</p>

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<p>Someone said that you go to Harvard, then you're set for life. I think that is totally true.</p>

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<p>Because US NEWS is my bible.</p>

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<p>My reason is most valid because it applies to everyone and its the truth.</p>

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<p>Harvard is NOT in Boston! It is in Cambridge! That's a bad sign right there :) It is near though...</p>

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<p>Harvard's close enough to Boston for the statement to be nominally correct.</p>

<p>At least I thought so.</p>

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<p>harvard will hate it if you say they're in boston. just so you know, do not say that in an interview.</p>

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<p>Lucky for me, grad students in my program don't interview. ;-)</p>

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<p>More than half of Harvard's acreage, now, IS across the Charles River in Boston. Most of the athletic facilities are on the Boston side, as is the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Dental School.</p>

<p>Within perhaps 10 years, pehaps 20-25% of the undergrads will live in new houses that will be built along the banks of the Charles on the Boston side. The huge new engineering campus will rise there as well.</p>

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<p>Byerly-What do the various Harvard factions think about houses in the quad vs. houses in Allston? As a student, I think Allston housing would be a lot nicer.</p>

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<p>Oh please. I like Harvard as much as the next guy, but there is WAY more to life than where you went to college.</p>

<p>When you've got a terrific spouse and great kids all of whom love and respect you, and a fascinating job earning tons of money, with more money than you could possibly spend put away for retirement, and you are in perfect health, THEN you might begin to think that MAYBE, just maybe, you are set for life. </p>

<p>And pretty much all of those things are going to come along (if they do at all) well after you have left college.</p>

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<p>The Allston houses on the River are intended to replace the quad housing and then some. The quad bui;ldings will be altered to serve as grad student housing.</p>

<p>The intention is that after all the neww construction, the center of undergrad life will be the River rather than the Square. A "real student center" whatever the hell that is (I assume state-of-theart fashionable) will be built on the Allston side.</p>