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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The “we were all happy happy happy it’s the best it’s perfect how dare you imply someone might not be happy at HYS” posters freaking out in this thread are quite something to watch. [/quote]

I'm guessing you're not an HYPS alum? What axe do you have to grind against these schools? Sorry your rejection letter from high school still hurts to this day. [/quote]
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I am an alum. [/b]No axe to grind, just bemused by the bizarrely panicked posts from people criticizing OP. It is not a great advertisement for HYPS that so many of you can’t handle mild criticism of the schools. [/quote]

L[b]OL. Yeah, sure you're an HYPS alum  :[/b]D [/quote]

NP altogether.  Double Harvard (law too).  Best years of my life.  And I'm very happy how my life turned out (I'm up there in years).  Yes, there were a lot of "pointy" kids at Harvard undergrad and at the law school but wouldn't you expect that?  And there were certainly some that didn't like their undergrad experience, especially those who were bitter about not getting into Harvard Law, so went abroad for a few years to LSE (this was before it was expected to take two years off between undergrad and grad for law school; i'm not talking about the business school) and then reapplied.  Or those who kept applying but couldn't get in so went elsewhere. That was a very unhappy group.  Yet, 1/3 of my HLS law class were H undergrads.  I have no idea if that is true today.  Anyhow, life is what you make of it.  You an choose to apply yourself and get as much as you can out of an experience or you can just sit bak and complain.  That's true if you have an IQ of 60 or 183.[/quote]

I'm much more impressed with young folks attending Harvard and Harvard Law than those "up there in years."  [b]Back then it was much more about money and connections and social class than merit.  [/qu[/b]ote]

Sorry to clutter your inbox.  But I was first gen and there was no money and no connections.  I did it all on my own out of the public California school system.  But go ahead and project judgment.[/quote]

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