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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The “scandals” at Harvard matter to insiders like Bill Ackman and culture warriors like Christopher Rufo but are faint background noise for most people who’d be responding to a survey like this.[/quote]
Even the political scandals aside, Harvard's been getting dinged for having lower academic standards than peers(most commonly awarded grade is an A, average GPA is over 3.8). The hardest part seems to be getting in.

Notably, from a different perspective, the lax standards may actually be a good thing. I suspect a 3.5 from Harvard is still viewed more favorably than a 3.5 from MIT, Princeton, or Stanford because of the Harvard name. If most kids are walking away with 3.8s, they will absolutely destroy kids from the other elite schools on career and grad school outcomes.

[quote]Again, the continued surprise is that Yale is behind MIT, Princeton, and even Michigan, when it has the most name recognition of any school besides Harvard (and perhaps Stanford).[/quote]
I think it's because Yale isn't great at STEM. Neither is Harvard, but the fact that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, John Collison, and a bunch of other tech billionaires founded their companies from Harvard dorm rooms more than makes up for any academic weaknesses in that department. [/quote]

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