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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s an interesting twist to this story. Three or more decades ago, Harvard was largely white and wealthy. There were very few poor or foreign students (less than 5% each). Today, the real family median income of new students at Harvard has halved since the 1990s. Pell Grant students now makeup 20% of entering students and over 50% of kids are getting substantial financial aid.

When Harvard admitted the white and wealthy, public service was considered a duty and a giveback to society while creating an honorable legacy for oneself. Those kids - at least the white and wealthy - have now shifted to other schools. Checkout Opportunity Insight data and you’ll see that WSTL leads the pack. Right there with them are Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, and many liberal arts colleges.

Thus, Harvard has become a bastion for poor, non-white, smart kids who are eager to score big. Their focus is not giving back to society in some noblesse oblige way, but to hack the system to wealth.

Maybe all the hate for WSTL, Vanderbilt, and the like is from Harvard strivers who see the rich, white kids heading to these other schools as a legacy of the past, and in some way, their enemy. [/quote]

I don't think people at Harvard have hate for WSTL, Vandy or anyone else. We just don't think about those schools that much. Who cares. [/quote]

Can confirm that even a non-HYP Ivy doesn’t think about them either, they are incredible schools, but once you’re in school no one is spending time thinking about such things. They’re happy where they are and secure. [/quote]

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