<p>^ Depends on person. No concrete answer for this. </p>
<p>imo, I feel the same though.</p>
<p>not to stereotype</p>
<p>but if you're the quite nerdy type Harvard may be better.</p>
<p>Yale is considerably more laid back and nearly infinitely more social. Our RC system owns, and the only way to have a social life in Harvard is to be in a finals club. Ask any Harvard student. I went to Cambridge for the Harvard-Yale football game, and Harvard parties are awful, absolutely awful. </p>
<p>So besides the social life, it really is just a much more relaxed and encouraging environment than Harvard.</p>
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True, but LACs seem like they don't have enough resources. I visited Amherst for example, and pretty much everyone mentioned having to take some courses at Umass Amherst because they were not offered. The horror lol! </p>
<p>Ehh not necessarily true for a lot of LAC's. For example, Williams and Pomona both have excellent resources, I hear. Williams: you can make your own course as long as you get approval/has excellent old documents library. Pomona: 5-College consortium offers lots of resources. </p>
<p>But back to topic, I think Yale truly offers a better undergraduate experience. I don't want to stereotype, but my brother (who lives in Cambridge but doesn't go to Harvard) says that Harvard kids DO tend to be really overly proud/at worst snobby about how they're at Harvard. I don't think that's as present at Yale. Of course- I can't speak for everyone, or even anyone, but I feel like Yale just has a little more relaxed, fun-loving environment.</p>
<p>I’d never advise anyone to go to Yale over Harvard or MIT, just saying.</p>
<p>I grew up in Harvard Square and loved it (too young for college -goingto Duke). I loved the whole scene along the river, and going to MIT and hanging out with the entrpreneurs doing the most outrageous things. Cambridge is a very special place with its concentration of talent, and there are endless restaurants in Cambridge, and endless colleges in Boston. </p>
<p>Yale is a great school but New Haven is a dive in comparison. You can’t go wrong at either. But I didn’t even apply -all this time in the Northeast I needed some sunshine. Anyway, Yale only takes recruited athletes from our school and most of them are b+ students. I know there are brilliant students at Yale, but trust me, there are many who are not, although I appreciate that recruited athletes work hard.</p>
<p>Yale offers a better undergraduate experience than virtually anywhere, including Harvard - it is much more social than just about any other campus in the country, mostly because the undergrad section of the campus is so dense, but also because of the overall layout of the campus, its housing system, and the fact that class sizes are significantly smaller and profs more accessible. Students at Yale are much happier, which probably encourages them to be more social too (i.e., it is a positive feedback loop). Also, New Haven is a much better college town than Cambridge. Obviously, you can’t go wrong with either though.</p>
<p>I don’t know for sure, since I was wl’d at H, but I put my money down on Yale because every single interaction I had with Yale reps, students, admissions, hell even a random professor I initiated contact with requesting to intern with him in his lab, just treated me really well. I just felt that Yale tries to PICK students who genuinely enjoy interacting with people. And Yale felt right for me because the attitude of the students and professors, the laidback nature of Yale life, etc translated into my mind as ‘potential for ‘free willed’ fun’. </p>
<p>I don’t know all that much about either school - I’m a class of '13 how could I? But I am perceptive and I felt that Yale offered a whole environment that <em>I</em> would find fun. And I know that how much FUN I have translates into how well I’m doing all around, because I’m a funseeker.</p>
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<p>You haven’t met enough Yalies…rofl.</p>
<p>Yeah man, I think you need to be specific.
Yale would be better for undergrad and a better environment. </p>
<p>If you want to work a lot (as in profs throwing work at you like crazy) then go to -the h-
Otherwise, if you want to work and interact with sharp minds like you, go to Yale
My interviewer told me this. She was pretty happy I applied to Yale, but I never told her that was one of two schools I applied to. IT WOULD SOUND TOO STUPID, LIKE IT IS.</p>
<p>Yale Yale Yale. Small school. Good ug experience. Best housing structure. Yale Yale Yale</p>
<p>Would people put Princeton out of the picture. If a school is so insecure about the number of “great minds” it wants to admit, it should not be in competition for academics. Increase the ug size a bit and get into the competition.
Crap</p>
<p>I agree. Keep in mind you will learn much more from your fellow students than from any of your classes. So pick the school where you will interact with the other students (as well as faculty and grad students) the most. Everything at Yale is designed to make sure that happens. Yale is more collegial and intimate than almost any small LAC. Unlike large schools like Penn or Harvard, it seems that students there run into virtually everyone they know every day. Walk around and everyone is saying hello to one another. And unlike a very small school like Swarthmore or Amherst, there is so much going on every minute of every day, so therefore more interactions. I am not affiliated with any of these schools but the differences between Yale and the others is incredibly striking.</p>
<p>Yes, think of them as colliding gas molecules if you want.</p>
<p>The Harvard undergrads on the Harvard forum say they love their undergrad experience and feel that there is actually more of an emphasis placed on the college than on the graduate schools.</p>
<p>Yale has more of a community feel than Harvard because it’s a bit more isolated than Harvard, not because it’s better. </p>
<p>Most of you guys can’t really compare though because you haven’t experienced; it’s just hearsay from a friend or from the Yale forum. Think about it… </p>
<p>Nevertheless, my opinion is that both cater to different needs and individuals, and no college is objectively better than the other.</p>
<p>Yale Undergrad is a much better experience than Harvard Undergrad. </p>
<p>Yale for undergrad, Harvard for grad. simple as that</p>