<p>I don’t plan to apply to any of these schools, but I don’t understand the “hate” between the two. Now i say this because, I have had conversations with Harvard alumni and students who plan to apply to Yale, both seem to judge each other harshly, but why? Is it a heated rivalry for the Rhodes scholarship or is it just me? and how dose it affect your school work?
Similar schools …
Penn vs Princeton
Mit vs caltech</p>
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<p>wat? No… it’s just a friendly rivalry. Yale, like it or not, is compared to Harvard in everything from academics to their lousy football teams. There are close historical ties between the two schools and there is much more cooperation and collaboration than there is “hate”.</p>
<p>There is barely a rivalry. Princeton is a rival to Penn as much as Harvard is a rival to Brown, and people at MIT talk about Harvard more than they talk about Caltech(which they rarely do)</p>
<p>Yale likes to pull elaborate stunts at Harvard’s expense associated with the football game, and Harvard likes to glory in winning the actual game - which they do most years these days. But for all the trash talk and and rude t-shirts, it’s a respectful rivalry at heart. When Harvard students travel to the football game in New Haven, it’s common for Yale students to graciously host them in their dorm rooms so they have a place to stay, and vice versa when the Yalies travel to Cambridge. You wouldn’t see that if they really hated each other.</p>
<p>well… there you have it folks, Yale & Harvard are at peace. for now!</p>
<p>Yeah? Well if Harvard’s intensions are so “peaceful” why did it require all undergraduates to go through 8 weeks of intensive military training this summer? Why have they been instructed to report to the Massachusetts/Connecticut border on September 1st? Gilpin’s pronouncements that they are “just going to see friends at Wesleyan” sounds suspicious to us in New Haven, especially since Wesleyan’s fall semester doesn’t begin until September 9th.</p>
<p>^^^lol…</p>
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<p>It was simply a prudent deterrent to discourage Yalist terror cells from going through with their plans to avenge their school’s miserable football performance against Harvard over the past decade by terrorizing Harvard Square by sending in teams of suicide bomb dogs - toothless bulldogs with frightening signs strapped to their backs that read “Bang! You’re dead! So there!”</p>
<p>Remember, Coureur, one person’s “terror bulldog” is another person’s “freedom puppy.”</p>
<p>I think that one reason that Harvard and Yale have such fun with their faux rivalry is that it’s a way of rubbing it in to Princeton that they aren’t invited to the party.</p>
<p>From last year, I have gotten the impression that student’s from the non-home team are host by students of the home team school. D and all her friends her put up in rooms of Yale students last year. There were social mixers planned. It was a fun, memorable weekend for my daughter. I’m assuming she will be hosting Yalies this year.</p>
<p>Ooh, this is definitely something amusing! Nope, sorry to disappoint, but I have not seen any real tension among Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. I guess what you’ve heard is because people just like to see the tension, but I am personally not a fan of it. The only difference worth contending is that Harvard is on the slightly liberally end and Yale and Princeton are on the slightly conservative end. This is not to say of course that there are zero liberals at Yale or Princeton or conservatives at Harvard.</p>
<p>Really, Seeker? My impression was that Yale was noticeably more liberal than Harvard, and Harvard was maybe a bit more liberal than Princeton.</p>
<p>Also, I know several Yalies (2-3) with big chips on their shoulders. My roommate is from a Boston suburb and amusingly preppy, so that’s my gmail status? Lol, look at the preppy thing my roommate just did? That’s not a reason to start talking to me when we haven’t talked for a year and a half just to prove that therefore, since my roommate is a prep from Boston, Yale is better! You don’t need to tell me three THOUSAND times that you got waitlisted by Harvard but CLEARLY Yale is much better so you wouldn’t go to Harvard even if you got in! You don’t need to continue pressuring me to apply to Yale because it’s better than Harvard /three/ /whole/ /months/ after the application deadline has passed! (and you’re already a freshman at Yale) Shuuuut upppppppp. - . - On the other hand, I do know several Yale grads/current Yale students who are lovely, lovely, non-school-comparing people. I feel like they’re actually the large majority, and it’s just bad luck that they’re only about half the Yale people I know. Thank you for listening to my little rant about Certain People Who Would Probably Be Frustrating No Matter What Undergraduate Institution They Had Chosen To Attend.</p>
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Very Funny, but I guess it just shows that in every case, it is the person, not the institution. </p>
<p>As for the whole liberal-conservative thing, I would say that everyone probably gets a different impression depending on the actual students they meet, etc.</p>
<p>mit>H>P>Y get it right!</p>
<p>gosh, i’d put caltech above mit better SATs according to US News.</p>
<p>no, nop, mit> caltech
PS this is a harvard forum</p>
<p>harvard has more war vetran students! i think yale and Princeton dont stand a chance!!! and people that go to harvard are smarter and people who get rejected go to yale. yale is a good school but is not as good as harvard! no matter what you say mit is only better in nasa relations thats it. it is not better than harvard.</p>
<p>Anyway, on December of 2012 Harvard and Yale will engage in a heavy fight that will leave both destroyed making Princeton number 1 and creating a wwVI…. Penn vs Princeton. May god save us all!
the end</p>
<p>LOL, I bet this rivalry is nothing as big as UCLA vs USC.</p>