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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, you naive little thing.

Every Ivy could fill up their freshman class a hundred times over with hungry applicants from all over the world, if all their current students quit over their supposed "bad press".

No, it's not going to change anything for your precious snowflake's application.[/quote]

Sounds like someone really can't handle the idea that Harvard's brand is being diluted.  [/quote]

PP you replied to. Ha ha, I have no ties to Harvard or any other Ivy institution. But as a member of an international family, with nieces and nephews who are considering US colleges, I can GUARANTEE that your little provincial disputes about the comparative worth of Harvard vs other Ivies and top tier colleges means NOTHING. The majority of the world still views Ivies exactly as before.

You people have a case of being too close to the problem. Every little Ivy travail that most of the world ignores is blown up to huge proportions in your eyes. You are just so gleeful when anything remotely negative happens to an Ivy. It's so obvious to others who don't have a dog in this fight that it's a case of deep envy. If your kid was offered a spot, most of you would jump at it.

I stand by what I said.

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And that's the thing about Harvard.

It attracts people that want the name and that's it. It gets the foreigners that want the brand. It gets the private school apps. Again, brand.

Meanwhile, apps were down significantly this year. And it will be worse next year.

It doesn't offer good STEM for undergrad. It seems to only be accessibale for very hooked kids, so smart kids aren't applying anymore. And it's become a political thing, which no ambitious 18 year old wants to be a part of.

So, it's the rich kids from Columbia or China or wherever, the privileged from Harvard-Westlake or Horace Mann, some DEI, also from the top privates, some athletes that aren't good enough for better D1, and maybe three genuinely smart kids.

The reality is that Harvard saw their apps drop by nearly 20 percent this year. It will be a much bigger drop next year.

But, of course, Harvard will remain a big name in Montevideo.

Meanwhile, smart kids aren't applying anymore and have moved on.[/quote]

You are making it a political thing. You keep posting and go on and on waging some kind of mythical culture war. Can't you just move on and let other people draw their own conclusions? Not a Harvard booster, but so tired of people trying to make this political with hyperbole.[/quote]

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