Yale -- Inferiority Complex Toward Harvard?

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<p>I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that we are talking about Hahrvard here…I am sure you have heard of the “H” Bomb. Most kids going to Harvard probably feel that being “rah rah” Harvard would be a little much, sort of like bragging about being rich in front of poor and middleclass folks fighting to feed their families (ie., an embarrassment of riches). In other words, something that would be frowned upon by most people. </p>

<p>Anyway, it looks like Harvard sold out its allotment to the Princeton b-ball game, so I wouldn’t say that there is no school spirit and enthusiasm…</p>

<p>BTW, a prospective is already dealing with this level of insecurity and he or she hasn’t even gotten to campus yet….
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1098791-pton-yale-caltech-rice-duke-harvard-upenn-columbia-brown-dmouth.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1098791-pton-yale-caltech-rice-duke-harvard-upenn-columbia-brown-dmouth.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You phrased that wrong. Most people think of yale as a worse version of harvard.</p>

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<p>Most people don’t think about it at all.</p>

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<p>The infatuation continues. Haha (Why not rename the column “Harvard Yard”?) lol</p>

<p>“Harvard administrators have banned hard alcohol from off-campus formals, the Harvard Crimson reported Friday.”</p>

<p>[Cross</a> Campus: 4.04.11 | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/04/cross-campus-40411/]Cross”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/04/cross-campus-40411/)</p>

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<p>In fairness, we should note that it’s not a one-way street. Consider a few quotes from the Crimson’s recent “Visitas Revisited” @ <a href=“http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2011/3/30/students-current-more-events/:[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2011/3/30/students-current-more-events/:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Though unaware of the syntactic disarray in that last sentence, the Crimson editors were still able to summon a straightforward and magisterial conclusion:</p>

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<p>■■■■■: I don’t see why a news blurb about a Harvard college life policy is indication of some great “infatuation”. Given the similarities, wouldn’t you agree that policies changes at Harvard or other Ivies or private Eastern schools would have parellels for the average Yale student? If I was a part of an org that hosted off-campus formals at Yale or attended them, it might be very relevant to me.</p>

<p>If I work at Ford, wanting to hear news about the goings on at Toyota or GM shouldn’t be viewed as any infatuation or obsession, should it?</p>

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<p>Here are two things I learned as soon as I got to Yale (chose it over Harvard):

  1. Reading the YDN gives you absolutely no sense of the pulse of campus culture at all.
  2. Once you get to your college of choice, you barely think about the places you didn’t get in to/chose not to go to at all, except at football games</p>

<p>Less important other things:
Most of my acquaintances (sample size n=3) who go to Harvard did not get into Yale. (One waitlist, two rejections.)</p>

<p>Harvard bashing on Yale is often more cruel than Yale bashing on Harvard. [see:the Harvard video was released that made fun of the murder of a Yale graduate student]</p>

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<p>That Yale song was fantastic lol. It’s all false, but funny none the less.</p>

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<p>For all the people who are “concerned” about said “inferiority complex” or “obsession with harvard,” please refer to the post here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1126178-any-one-else-turning-down-yale-5.html#post12434831[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1126178-any-one-else-turning-down-yale-5.html#post12434831&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Another example of Yale bashing from Harvard: safetyschool.org</p>

<p>Two way street, folks. Two way street. But joking about Yale being a safety school comes off as incredibly pretentious to me.</p>

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<p>I’m currently a freshman here at Yale, and I believe that although fierce rivalry between Harvard and Yale exists, it does not reflect an “inferiority complex” Yalies may have. In fact, I feel like the rivalry is slightly exaggerated… Yalies definitely have a tendency to take a jab at Harvard whenever the opportunity arises, but it’s more of a humorous tradition than blatant insulting.</p>

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<p>I know many people who attended Yale and Harvard. None of them cheer for Harvard during the Yale-Harvard game.</p>

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<p>I’ve attended the Harvard-Yale game for the past two years. This year I sat in the Harvard section and there were thousands of fans cheering for Harvard.</p>

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<p>^ I think he might have meant that he knows many people who have attended BOTH Yale and Harvard and all of them cheer for Yale.</p>

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<p>I wonder how many the “many” people jmilton knows who have attended BOTH Yale and Harvard. Were they all Harvard undergrads? Most alums cheer for their undergrad at a head-to-head matchup, but that is not necessarily always the case. There would be nothing unusual about rooting for your grad school college at other games.</p>

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<p>Bay,</p>

<p>Of the “many” Yale-Harvard graduates I know, some attended Harvard as undergraduates. All of the “many” Yale-Harvard graduates I know cheer for Yale at the Game. However, as I doubt the Gallup Poll will be contacting me any time soon, please accept my good-natured teasing with at least one grain of salt.</p>

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<p>I only know one person who was an undergraduate at Harvard who cheered for Yale at The Game–but his son was on the Yale football team.</p>

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<p>Hunt,</p>

<p>Thanks for your post. </p>

<p>It is great to hear that your friend matured into a sensible adult.</p>

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<p>I saw a Yale student wearing a T-shirt that said something like:</p>

<p>“My hatred for Harvard outweighs my apathy about Football”. </p>

<p>Is that a sign of an inferiority complex?</p>

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<p>^That was a shirt for the Harvard-Yale football game, so not really.</p>