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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard is a grants lifelong access to movers and shakers. I am an alum and live abroad currently. Joined the alumni club to meet people and the first event I attended was hosted by the president of the country I live in. Just one tiny example from a long life of enjoying good conversation with interesting people. Not everything is about making money or getting ahead. [/quote]

A lot of Harvard people are insufferable boors whose main achievement in life was attending Harvard.

But if you get off on being around people like Larry Summers, Bill Ackman, and Alan Dershowitz, maybe spending four years as a largely ignored undergraduate at Harvard is worth it.  [/quote]

I didn't attend either, but indirectly you are proving the value of the Harvard brand.  You could name three people associated with the school off the tip of your tongue and you are disparaging the school...I could name Gates, Zuckerberg, Natalie Portman, the Winklevie Twins, Ken Griffin also off the tip of my tongue.

For Duke...I can name some basketball players...Grant Hill, Cooper Flagg...but honestly, I can't name a single Duke grad in business, politics, etc. that just springs to mind.

Of course there are accomplished alumni and if I did a google search, I would likely recognize some names, however, just proving that the Harvard brand continues to be powerful.[/quote]

I can name a Duke alum who wasn’t an athlete — Stephen Miller.[/quote]

I will give you that one.  Forgot about him, but agree he is someone that might be on the tip of the tongue for many people.[/quote]

Have you heard of Melinda French Gates, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Dole, Tim Cook, Charlie Rose....[/quote]
Melinda French is famous because she married a guy who went to Harvard. [/quote]

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