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[quote=Anonymous]A good friend of mine went to Harvard, I went to a SLAC. A couple of things came up when we were in college:
1)in order to get into a class at Harvard with a famous prof, you had to apply for it. So, it was another level of competition 
2) she was a “normal” smart girl but said it was intimidating because everyone else arrived so accomplished. Her roommate was a renowned violinist, her boyfriend was training to row in the Olympics. Everyone, it seemed had done or was doing something notable and it was intimidating.
3) comparing notes, it seemed like I had much more homework than her.
4) I was with her when we ran into a professor of mine, this was about 1-2 years post college. He remembered my name and my sister’s, who he had also taught. She was flabbergasted by this as she said it would never have happened with a Harvard professor.

Her son is now going to Harvard and she made him think long and hard about it. It certainly opened up many many doors for her, but tried to convey to him that’s it’s not necessarily the best college experience.[/quote]

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