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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No there isn't. Yale and Harvard are so different from each other. The students who pick Yale do so because of its great residential culture, great faculty relationships, community invested peers, and the liberal arts emphasis. Pick a selection of any 10 random students who got admitted to Yale if they'd take the offer to Harvard and I doubt more than 1 or 2 would. Sure Yale loses to cross-admits on a 60:40 ratio, but the 40% who pick Yale pick it for a reason.[/quote]

Dont delude yourself. A lot of Yalies pick Yale because they could not make it to Harvard. Sure some cross-admits choose it over Harvard for the reasons you mention but most of these hypercompeititive kids choose based on prestige. They have not experienced yet the benefits of the Yale undergrad experience for themselves so it is not as big of a driver as the prestige differential.  I know for a fact that there is a big number of Yalies lamenting the fact that they were not accepted to Harvard. One of my kids went to Yale. Yale offers by far the better undergrad experience and I am very glad DC ended up there, wouldn't trade it for anything.[/quote]

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