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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The descriptions above strike me as accurate.

I went to H and would pick Y for my kids. The P scene isn’t for me, but some of the most intellectually impressive people I know went there.

I don’t expect my kids to get into any of them. [/quote]

I did grad school at Yale and my spouse did it at Harvard so I lived there with him.  I would pick Harvard over Yale.  The Yale campus is very gloomy and the colleges are sort of locked off.  The secret societies and insular traditions are weird.  The undergrads seemed to me sort of gloomy and full of themselves and, of the three schools, most likely to want to debate philosophical tenets.  Also the city of New Haven pretty much hates Yale and that felt palpable to me.  Harvard, because it is sooo famous, is actually more diverse because it pulls from towns and families all across the country — everyone has heard of Harvard.   And Boston shrugs off all colleges because there are so many so (despite good will hunting’s premise) there isn’t much of a town-gown issue.

We also did grad work at Princeton and lived there.  It is a very nice campus but feels incredibly preppy.  The kind of place where if you’re wearing the wrong brands, it might actually matter.  But I didn’t have much interaction with the undergrads and only know a few people that went there.  Most seem fanatically pro Princeton.  [/quote]

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