Has Harvard turned a corner?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Older grad here and honestly very turned off by newer graduate attitudes and sensitivities. It’s like walking on eggshells around too many of them. I feel like I’m in a room full of instagram people. I didn’t find that to be true in the past and was active in the alum group.

I had no interest in sending my kid there. Or having much to do with the alums.

+1000

Cool, less competition for legacy slots for my kids! Thanks!

Hope you are giving six to seven figures because that’s what it takes

No you don't. You don't hope anything. You're just being a d*** on the internet.

Hardly. And I am an alum. I learned the hard way what it takes to get on. My legacy kids got the “soft rejection” but, by all means, continue to be a class act and call people names here. I can produce articles about the seven and six figure cites if you want to see them

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Older grad here and honestly very turned off by newer graduate attitudes and sensitivities. It’s like walking on eggshells around too many of them. I feel like I’m in a room full of instagram people. I didn’t find that to be true in the past and was active in the alum group.

I had no interest in sending my kid there. Or having much to do with the alums.

+1000

+10,000. Alum
Here and I’m no longer getting money

[Anonymous]

Harvard will be surpassed by some of their peers in reputation/ranking within 10 years if that hasn’t already happened. Stanford / MIT / Penn are pretty competitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard will be surpassed by some of their peers in reputation/ranking within 10 years if that hasn’t already happened. Stanford / MIT / Penn are pretty competitive.

No it won’t. Alum of Harvard and Penn.

[Anonymous]

Of course it won’t because people have memories that last about a week. Ten years is laughable!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard will be surpassed by some of their peers in reputation/ranking within 10 years if that hasn’t already happened. Stanford / MIT / Penn are pretty competitive.

No it won’t. Alum of Harvard and Penn.

It is really just a money game. The wealthiest university wins. Harvard has largest endowment right now.

[Anonymous]

The reputational decline is real. At this point, I would much prefer to hire a practical kid from a state flagship or similar over someone who has been groomed towards lunacy at an Ivy. -Ivy grad

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Anonymous wrote:No one on this board would have their DC turn down Harvard. I’ve been reading here long enough to know that with all you looney stats posters taking about “spiky” this and 5.6 GPAs that and 3 national awards.

I’m sure that will cue the one parent who’s DC got into YPS and they chose one of those other schools but I assure you all - they’re the exception not the rule and to think otherwise is foolish. It’s Harvard.

You’re out of touch.

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There are about 5 colleges I’d rather have my kid attend over Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reputational decline is real. At this point, I would much prefer to hire a practical kid from a state flagship or similar over someone who has been groomed towards lunacy at an Ivy. -Ivy grad

Which state flagship? There was a kid that dropped out of the University of Alabama and wrote an OpEd for the NY Post because of the “wokeism and lunacy” at UAB.

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Anonymous wrote:There are about 5 colleges I’d rather have my kid attend over Harvard.

List the 5

[Anonymous]

Harvard alum.
Jewish family
Love to have my kid attend
Have family there now.
IMO it’s more an external problem than one of kids actually there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are about 5 colleges I’d rather have my kid attend over Harvard.

List the 5

Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Penn, and Stanford

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Anonymous wrote:There are about 5 colleges I’d rather have my kid attend over Harvard.

List the 5

DP.

My kid did not apply to Harvard last year. Not because “woke” or anything like that. This was before 10/7 but today she is sympathetic to the Palestinian’s issues but not an activist.

She didn’t apply because of her perception that it’s full of wealthy kids who are selected for reasons other than their ability to change the world. She applied to four reaches - Stanford, Chicago, MIT, and Duke. She got into three of them and is at one now.

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Anonymous wrote:There are about 5 colleges I’d rather have my kid attend over Harvard.

List the 5

Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Penn, and Stanford

Well…other than CalTech…those have a bunch of the same problems.

BTW…nobody seriously considering Harvard sends their kid to CalTech and you are likely just regurgitating rankings

Caltech is a great school, but the job network is terrible compared to the other school. It’s small and kids gravitate towards JPL and academia.

It is unlike any of the other top schools and attracts a very certain type of student.