Anonymous wrote:DC will attend Visitas, but it ends 3 days before decisions need to be made. Would love to hear from people about recent experiences at Harvard, especially around campus culture, how collaborative vs competitive students are (both in classes and clubs), and what social life looks like on weekends. Are students happy there? What are the reasons to choose Harvard over another college?

Any insight into internship opportunities and recruiting early on would be really helpful too. DC is outgoing, social, and very athletic, so trying to get a sense of overall fit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior. Accepted to Harvard, Yale, other Ivys, Duke, T20s (some full merit scholarships), a few WASPs. Likes the LACs for focus on undergrads and close relationships with Professors without much effort. As a premed, Harvard is hard to beat for many reasons. But, when it comes down to it, premed or not, it's very hard to turn down Harvard.

Anonymous wrote:My kid recently chose Harvard over Yale, MIT, Stanford, Princeton and more. Absolutely loves being at Harvard. It's hard for me to say this as a Yale alum, but Harvard truly is an amazing school. And Cambridge/Boston is a great area to be a college student.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior. Accepted to Harvard, Yale, other Ivys, Duke, T20s (some full merit scholarships), a few WASPs. Likes the LACs for focus on undergrads and close relationships with Professors without much effort. As a premed, Harvard is hard to beat for many reasons. But, when it comes down to it, premed or not, it's very hard to turn down Harvard.

Agreed, the grade inflation makes it much, much easier than other schools to get the grades needed for med school.

Um, not in STEM. They enforce the curves.