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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard's reputation has definitely suffered in the past couple of years but it's still popular. But if it has some more high profile controversies, it will go downhill fast. PP is right in that they have been letting in a large crop of unimpressive TO students.[/quote]

Why are their students not impressive?  Some people seem to think that Harvard has lost prestige because they have some students and faculty that have been critical of Israel.  [/quote]

That's merely a blip. But it is part of a larger pattern. Harvard admits for undergrad these days are generally not regarded as the best and brightest. And there's a large activist contingent - protesting for the sake of protesting something.

Grad programs are different though. Outside of a few mediocre programs like Kennedy, it's the reason Harvard maintains its academic prestige. [/quote]

I used to think that the business school was Harvard's power center, but now I think it's the law school.  The sheer amount of global power in the alumni of that one part of the institution is just absurd: foreign and domestic heads of state, legislators, SC justices, fortune 500 CEO, entertainment execs, billionaire investors and their billionaire children, authors, national security agents, intellectuals, etc.  This doesn't even include their absolutely rock star faculty.   I think that one part of the university is responsible for a large part of the Harvard reputation, and my hunch is that once they realize it the law school administration is going to start demanding a lot more in terms of resources from the rest of the university.  No more crumbling buildings that look like an inner city slum.  [/quote]
Graduate school is not undergrad — and is program specific. Yale Law is more prestigious than Harvard Law. Which you should know…
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