<p>Here are links to an article from The Harvard Crimson from a few years ago: The Cult of Yale</p>
<p>The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: The Cult of Yale
The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: The Cult of Yale, Part II</p>
<p>This article confirms what I have been hearing from friends at both schools.</p>
<p>The links aren't working. Do you think you could try again? I'm interested in reading these.</p>
<p>OoOoO im interested too! =)</p>
<p>Ah, after a quick Google search, I found the links:</p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: The Cult of Yale</p>
<p>and </p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: The Cult of Yale, Part II</p>
<p>Thanks for fixing the problem, aethernaut.</p>
<p>Before you start forming an image of Harvard social life based on what you read, please look at the dates on those stories. They are from five years ago, and things change on campus very quickly. I just graduated from Harvard in June and I can assure you that neither I nor anyone I ever spoke to - EVER - expressed a wish that we'd gone to Yale. </p>
<p>There is no universal social life experience there that I could generalize about. Whatever you're looking for, you can find it. If people have specific questions, I'm happy to reply.</p>
<p>The short version of this two-part article is that there is more booze at Yale than at Harvard.</p>
<p>Harvard has a wonderful social life in my opinion, but I can't speak for Yale at all.</p>
<p>hey, i'm also class of 08! yale was actually my first choice, but i didn't get in. it only took until the first harvard-yale game for me to stop being sad about that though. first of all, the yale "prank" that year totally failed, but they made a website with photoshopped pictures and created a wikipedia entry claiming it had been a success. rather pathetic. the constant harvard-bashing got very annoying too. standard conversation between a yalie and someone at harvard:
Y: HARVARD SUCKSKFCHOHF!!!-1-1-1100110!!!
H: Well, I think both our schools are quite good.
My senior year I actually went to Yale for the game and their social scene didn't seem much different from what I was used to at Harvard. Parties suck at both schools. One good thing about Harvard though is that you don't pass any correctional facilities on the way to the stadium (not kidding).</p>
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<p>A question that I would love to have answered has to do with Harvard's housing. We actually live in MA and therefore did two separate visits to the campus. One formally, but it was a brutally cold that day last January, which ruined the visit. Than we visited again, in better weather, did the tour, and then wandered on our own. On both admissions tours, housing visits were limited to old campus which is just for the freshmen. In our wandering, we went over to the upperclassman housing (those down by the river). We were shocked by the distance they are from the main campus and all the academics. If I recall there was second cluster, that was equally far. What impact does the housing distance have on the experience at Harvard? Can you shed any light? Thanks</p>
<p>S is in one of the river houses. There is a shuttle which he never uses. He claims he can get to his classes, usually on the far end of campus, in about 5 minutes. Classes end on the hour and start at 7minutes past. The distance has never bothered him.</p>
<p>Somewhere, I am sure, there is a university of comparable size all of whose student housing is closer to its classrooms than Dunster House or Mather or whatever they call North now are to Harvard's classrooms. But I can't think of one off the top of my head. The places with significantly more convenient student housing are much smaller.</p>
<p>^cathcart</p>
<p>From everything I have read it feels like Yalies like to bash Harvard. As an applicant to both schools, I would find that very annoying if I went to Yale. It's almost like an inferiority complex. But before I stereotype, I want to hear a Yale student's opinion of this.</p>
<p>I am an EA admit to Yale but have kept my Harvard application active. Can Harvard students comment on living in one of the Radcliffe houses? Is it like being in Siberia? Yale has spent a lot of money improving their residential colleges; are there plans to do the same at Harvard?</p>
<p>The walk can be annoying, yes, but in the case of Currier House (the Radcliffe Quad dorm I'm most familiar with), its distance from most other residential houses is said to have created one of the strongest house communities on campus. Its small size and better food quality don't hurt either...</p>
<p>Everyone I know who lives in the Quad gushes about the room quality. They hate the walk/shuttle ride, but love their rooms. In fact, PoHo has really nice two-story rooms!</p>
<p>Re : the Yale bashing of Harvard - it seems to me like EVERYONE likes to bash Harvard. I'll never understand it; I kind of adore the place. :</p>
<p>hmmm</p>
<p>I stayed at Harvard with some of my friends for a few days during the EA/ED deadline of Novemeber 1. Everyone, being freshman, was well aware of the deadline and so many of the conversations we had over that weekend revolved around where my friends and I would be applying early. Since I did Yale EA, of course I replied "yale" to the many queries and the consistent responses that I received from dozens of people were "What? Yale? You mean the lesser university?", "New Haven sucks!", "uhhh why would you want to go there?", etc, etc.</p>
<p>Now after being admitted to Yale SCEA, whenever I talk to my Harvard friends (and their roommates/classmates or whatever) they say "Harvard is so much better", "I know that you'll be here next year despite getting in EA", "Yale sucks!"</p>
<p>Long story short, there's quite a bit of Yale bashing at Harvard.... but they're both all in good fun and I'm sure no one is genuinely trying to put down the people at the other school. There are people who get into Harvard and not Yale while there are people for whom the opposite holds true - thus, I'm sure there's no sort of inferiority complex issue going on. It's how rival schools interact with one another! It's part of the fun of going to either Harvard or Yale!</p>
<p>I, for one, will be doing my fair share of Harvard bashing (or perhaps Yale bashing) depending on where I end up next year... and I'm so excited!</p>
<p>I lived at both Dunster House and up at Radcliffe (South House then - I can't remember what it's called now). I never found either walk particularly onerous and Dunster had great river views.</p>
<p>@eating_food - Were you staying with freshmen? Just a hunch :-P</p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: College Prepares for $1 Billion Housing Renovation</p>