<p>What are the major differences between Yale and Harvard?</p>
<p>There are many threads covering this subject. Do an Advanced Search on either the Harvard or Yale board.</p>
<p>Yale offers EA but Harvard doesn’t. That’s one of my key reasons.</p>
<p>4 versus 7 letters.</p>
<p>My Harvard friend told me:
Harvard has all the Gryffindors and Slytherins.
Yale has all the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Where do all the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws go? </p>
<p>Please don’t say Princeton.</p>
<p>Yale is better than Harvard.</p>
<p>Nah, lol, it’s all up to personal preference. There’s stuff that distinguishes them, of course, like location, residential college systems, math/science focus vs. humanities…but nothing that makes one better than the other, really.</p>
<p>I can tell you why I picked Yale over Harvard: the English program was better, I liked New Haven, I thought the kids were more creative/less arrogant, and the residential college system was more developed and suited me better.</p>
<p>Yale has the humanities focus, right? </p>
<p>Something I appreciate about Yale is that all tenured faculty members need to teach at least one undergrad course per semester. I feel it gives students the chance to learn from amazing professors. I’ve conducted research at the University of Toronto (my city) and I’ve met plenty of incredible professors, but not many of them ventured into undergraduate teaching. Most just isolate themselves with their grad students.</p>
<p>I liked Yale better than Harvard because the students seem much more grounded and a lot less arrogant/spoiled/out of touch. You get those students everywhere, but Harvard seemed to have a huge concentration of them - even for a wealthy, elite institution.</p>
<p>Harvard: $48,868
Yale: $47,500</p>
<p>The market has spoken.</p>
<p>^ The official deal-breaker.</p>
<p>I’ve seen this same thread a million times.</p>
<p>I finally decided that anyone who asks it should just go to Harvard. They usually do anyway. And meanwhile all the people who rise up to try to say “Yale is better” just sound foolishly involved in the topic. And always someone will point out “but they don’t have to say Harvard is better than Yale on the Harvard thread” to make it really sink in.</p>
<p>Don’t feed this topic. Or look through the other threads on it and keep an open mind.</p>
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<p>First of all, nobody has actually, seriously said “Yale is better.” They’ve just said why they personally liked Yale. Secondly, what’s the point of this board if not to inform people about schools? Nobody here sounds foolish; just trying to help the OP out.</p>