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[quote=Anonymous]Harvard grad from above here.

To answer your questions, I think the reason people mostly don’t like Harvard is that they choose to attend not bc there is something they love about the school but bc they didn’t want to turn it down bc of the name.  In part because of this, it doesn’t have a lot of school spirit.
Also there is for sure less of a focus on undergrads than even some of the other Ivies. (Don’t know re Duke). 
I think they get away with a lot bc they are Harvard.
I didn’t like a lot of things about it and it definitely was the lowest point of my life with regard to my mental health 
I was well rounded - athlete and captain and such - in high school like your son. 
I think it is better for pointier students who have their one thing they are good at and they hang out w other students who do that thing.
My friends who played sports there really liked  it for example bc they had a built in community. 
That said, I do have a few lifelong friends from there who i love. Also I - like most Harvard grads - do like having a degree from there now that I don’t have to live there anymore and now that I am well past it and have gotten my confidence back.

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