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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe there is a difference between high-achieving students and everyone else. Generally, high-achieving kids want to go to the best academic school they can get into and their family can afford. Period. I[b]f the kid gets into Harvard, it doesn't matter what the food tastes like, whether or not the dorm is air conditioned, or if there is a nearby Starbucks.[/b] IT DOESN'T MATTER. However, if the goal is to get an average education at one of 3,000 schools across the nation, perhaps, food, dorms, recreation facilities, sports teams, etc. matter. Just keep in mind, you're paying for an eduction, not a country club. Sure, if you can have both, so be it, but it's sad if you're selecting a school based on comfort over learning, IMHO. But, to each his own. [/quote]

Spoken like someone who had zero fun in college and definitely didn't get a top tier frat bid.[/quote]

+1.  I want to clear up something about Harvard (and Yale, too).  The Harvard freshman all get to live in Harvard Yard.  This is THE most historic and most photographed area of the campus.  [b]The dorms were built in 1670.[/b]  They are historic and very meaningful to the students who live there.  They are well-kept (the year I was there, the ivy had to come down - sad day - because it was destroying the ancient grout).  All freshman can open their windows and yell at friends down in the Yard or across the Yard.  And yes you CAN have window air conditioners if you need them.  And heaters.  I had my own fireplace and made a fire every night.  The food is fine but the Yard is closer to Harvard Square than any other place on campus so you are a short walking distance to some of the best burgers I've ever had in my life (one was featured on Triple D).  You also have many dining options back on campus.  After freshman year you select one of the Houses to live in and live there for the next three years.  Almost everyone has its own ballroom, library, sitting rooms, study halls, etc.  This (Harvard Yard) and the Houses is a great way to make friends.

As to Yale - much the same thing - my DC spent a summer living in a garret room in one of the Residential Houses.  There you go right into the Residential House - much like Oxford and Cambridge and their colleges.  There was no A/C there but the summer coordinators had free fans sitting on the lawn for pickup.  And most of the rooms are singles.  And have fireplaces.  Again, it's considered a matter of pride as to which Residential House you are in and the age of those rooms.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_sister_colleges

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[b]No Harvard dorms were built in 1670.  This is Cambridge in the U.S., not Cambridge in the UK.  Harvard's oldest building is Massachusetts Hall from 1720.  The Houses at Harvard and Colleges you see at Yale are predominately from 1920s and 1930s and later.  [/quote][/b]

Wrong - the dorms in Harvard Yard were built in 1720.  But you are missing the point.  To live in them is history and no one cares about lack of a/c or other things.  It's the experience of living in the Yard with all the other freshmen that makes it so special.[/quote]

I don't have a point other than to point out that the person who said Harvard dorms were built in 1670 was off by a minimum of 50 years.  The oldest one solely used as a dorm today was built in 1763, which is 93 years after 1670.  The oldest of the river houses, for sophomores and up, dates from 1930.[/quote]

Aren't you all missing the point here   What fools these posters are[/quote]

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