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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She should try to visit another time before making a decision.  I attended Harvard, and at the time the social scene was fine, but the academics were very far from focused on undergraduates. I overall still enjoyed my experience there and the "name" certainly opens doors, but my time in graduate school there was much more valuable, and in retrospect, I would have been better off at a more undergrad focused institution (Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth or a really good LAC like Williams or Middlebury or Pomonaor Swarthmore) for undergrad, someone would have read and cared about what I wrote I suspect, and seeing my DDs now as students at two of the more undergrad focused institutions I list (one chose to not go to Harvard despite being admitted, one didn't even apply) they are getting a much better experience academically in college than I did. They also felt that the kids from their high schools that ended up at Harvard were really not people they hoped to be in college with, seemed to be too many highly programmed products of tiger moms, kids of billionaires who didn't deserve admission,  people obsessed with status and not actually very intellectually engaged, and their older friends who did end up at Harvard found the current social scene to be quite stressful and unwelcoming, which surprised me, that seems to have changed alot with now a big focus on finals clubs and frats/sororities.  [/quote]

The best thing about being the parent of a Princeton student is that you are all Tiger moms.  [/quote]

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