<p>Would attending Yale instead of Harvard make a difference in graduate school admissions, for Harvard Business School or the Kennedy School of Government for example?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>And you can get into those places just fine without a Yale or Harvard degree. Harvard Business School is much more interested in the quality of your work experience (bare minimum of 2 years, but more is preferred) and in your letters of recommendation and your essays, than in where you got your undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>No. Both are at the very highest levels of US colleges. An appropriate degree with good grades from either school will take you anywhere you want to go.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m pretty much set at Yale right now, so I needed to hear that. :)</p>
<p>Come on now, Undergraduate, you know full well that no one has ever been disadvantaged by a Yale degree! (Well, maybe our last President, but he was just a legacy admit.) So go, follow your heart, be happy, get the Harvard t-shirt from Prefrosh weekend and display it in your Yale dorm room like a captured enemy flag. Reassurance can be nice, but you didn’t really need our blessing to know that it’s a fine thing to want to be at Yale.</p>
<p>So many people would kill for this choice. </p>
<p>Choose the place you would be most successful.</p>
<p>Pff, don’t listen to these fools. Any self-respecting Harvard adcom would go firebomb your house for even considering going to Yale. Hell, I’ve heard that they invite all the Yale students applying to Harvard grad schools to a weekend retreat, and then sacrifice the attendees at the feet of great overlord John Harvard. There is no such thing as innocent civilians in the great Harvard-Yale war.</p>
<p>Harvard Graduate Schools do not discriminate against Yale students, and vice-versa.</p>