Opposite experience for me.

Graduates from Yale and Harvard I know are lovely, sensitive, people. Interestingly, the few people I know from Cornell and Columbia are a little more uppity

I will presume that it's your field and/or social circle that may tend to those behaviors. OR... SAMPLE SIZE IS JUST STATISTICALLY NOT SIGNIFICANT.

It's true. Most of them who I have encountered personally or professionally are name dropping windbags.

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Anonymous wrote:harvard college is massively overrated. i know at least a dozen people who transferred to other schools because the experience was so bad.

Why do you keep posting about this? It simply isn't true. Very, very few students transfer out to other schools so you must know every single one of them. Most students enjoy the undergrad experience there.

then i guess i know a lot of them!

I worked with a woman for 5 years before I read in her bio she went to Harvard undergrad (and you can’t leave your college off your professional bio).

The reason I know another co-worker has a Harvard MBA is because other co-workers told me, not him.

I don’t know what y’all are talking about.

Anonymous wrote:When somebody drops their Harvard background on me, I just say something like, "Oh, okay. I'll try to speak more slowly then."

It shuts them up.

lol.. no.. you don't.. really?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get in, but once you are in, hard to fail out even if you do poorly.

same for stanford. They don't want to mess up their average GPA, so they let students retake classes over and over until they get a high grade they let them drop a class the day before finals if they are failing. My public no name univ. would never allow that.

No. they don't.

What does happen is that you'd have to go out of your way to get a C or lower. Getting a B is pretty much assured if you do the minimum amount of work.

Then the person that I know even failed to do minimum work or really wans't that smart because this person was getting a D and dropped the class the week before final, and then retook it 3x before getting a B.

Because so many of them went to GDS?

When somebody drops their Harvard background on me, I just say something like, "Oh, okay. I'll try to speak more slowly then."

It shuts them up.

Anonymous wrote:harvard college is massively overrated. i know at least a dozen people who transferred to other schools because the experience was so bad.

I have a friend who went there for undergrad, and he hated it. He said the people he was around were all so snobby. He wasn't rich and had to work as a pizza delivery guy to help pay for college. I know there are people who go there who are not rich, so maybe it was just the people in his major.

Anonymous wrote:harvard college is massively overrated. i know at least a dozen people who transferred to other schools because the experience was so bad.

Why do you keep posting about this? It simply isn't true. Very, very few students transfer out to other schools so you must know every single one of them. Most students enjoy the undergrad experience there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get in, but once you are in, hard to fail out even if you do poorly.

same for stanford. They don't want to mess up their average GPA, so they let students retake classes over and over until they get a high grade they let them drop a class the day before finals if they are failing. My public no name univ. would never allow that.

No. they don't.

What does happen is that you'd have to go out of your way to get a C or lower. Getting a B is pretty much assured if you do the minimum amount of work.

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get in, but once you are in, hard to fail out even if you do poorly.

same for stanford. They don't want to mess up their average GPA, so they let students retake classes over and over until they get a high grade they let them drop a class the day before finals if they are failing. My public no name univ. would never allow that.

Because we expect you to bend the knee

That's why DD picked Yale over Harvard, and couldn't be happier with her choice!

harvard college is massively overrated. i know at least a dozen people who transferred to other schools because the experience was so bad.