<p>Just that, I'd like to you, Harvard's students to tell me why Harvard's the best college for future leaders</p>
<p>please ^^</p>
<p>Did you post one of these on every Ivy thread?</p>
<p>he left out dartmouth and cornell</p>
<p>Hmm...Dartmouth and Cornell boards are so lucky.</p>
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<p>International reputation.</p>
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<p>Ouch. They can't even get caught in a catchall...</p>
<p>Dude... we have like the same name.</p>
<p>"International reputation"</p>
<p>...is that the only reason why?</p>
<p>I choose happiness and an EXPERIENCE over slightly more prestige any time. Observe article:</p>
<p>It's funny, how you, apfreak, was extremely pedantic about Harvard this time last year. In the end, it is a very personal decision. International reputation is a reason why students do choose Harvard and does attribute to the fact that we have an approximately 80% yield rate, a rate unmatched by any other highly selective college in the nation. </p>
<p>For me, it was the financial aid package, the city of Cambridge/Boston, and the multitude of opportunities available on campus that attracted me to Harvard. </p>
<p>Even as a humanities (History and Science) major, I was able to get a job as a research assistant in a major science research lab (and have been learning so much), something I tried to do during high school, but failed - three times. I was able to join a major acappella group, something I have not done before (I have always been a violinist). I was able to get involved in sports through intramurals, which, for a non-sports guy like me, was a significant leap in faith. I am now volunteering at a hospital through Children's Hospital Boston, and for my thesis for History of Science, I am planning on applying for the tons of grants out there so that I can pursue an international experience and do some interviews and first-hand research. This is all in my first-year, and I can't wait for the next three years here.</p>
<p>Again, Harvard may not be for you! 20% of admits still choose to go elsewhere - it is really a very personal decision, one that your parents nor me can tell you what to do.</p>
<p>xjayz, you are correct about that. However, realize during the application season I was on an Ivy league craze. I wanted to get into an ivy league school badly and as many applicants choose the highest ranking one, so did I. I needed to chose one school to be crazy about in order to have the determination during the application process. The craze can blind you to everything except prestige --and the prospect of acceptance. Now that I have actually reviewed and discovered ach school (in order to decide where to enroll) I better understand that Yale is a better place for me. (I would have died with all the Red Sox fans anyway, LOL). As you so correctly put it...it is a matter of "personal decision".....one that is hopefully well informed.</p>
<p>Reasons for doing so can be many and varied for the academically strongest:</p>
<p>"...There isn't any doubt that brand matters and that Harvard is the prestige brand," says Stanley Katz, director of Princeton University's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. "It's the Gucci of higher education, the most selective place."</p>
<p>Never mind the price tag (upward of $40,000 per year for tuition, room and board), or the fact that guides such as the U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges and universities say the differences between Harvard and other top-ranked schools are microscopically small. The gulf that separates Harvard from the rest in terms of reputation remains enormous.</p>
<p>"It used to be the case that of students who were admitted to Harvard and Princeton or Harvard and Yale, seven of 10 would choose to go to Harvard," Katz says. "It may be more now. There is a tendency for the academically best to skew even more to Harvard. We just get our socks beat off in those cases...."</p>
<p>There is no doubt that Harvard ends up being the first choice of the vast majority of people who are admitted. However, a few more quotes from the same article cited by Byerly:</p>
<p>"Harvard no longer owns the No. 1 ranking as the university attended by the most CEOs of Standard & Poor's 500 companies (just under 4%). The school that caught up to it: the University of Wisconsin."</p>
<p>"Parents who expect the Ivies to ensure their kids' success are going to be disappointed. The old-boy network isn't much good in an economy like this; it's competence that counts."</p>
<p>. . . must we have this argument every 3 minutes?</p>
<p>You shouldn't choose Harvard just because it's Harvard. I found that, after much research, Harvard was the place for me for every reason except prestige. Those just looking for 7 letters on a resume need to re-evaluate what they are seeking in a collegiate experience.</p>
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<p>Well then, you'll HAVE to go to Harvard because Penn ain't big enough for the both of us ;)</p>