Each student is trying to be the best-of-the best for their own personal satisfaction. That means in a class of 15 or 30 or , the vast majority of students are there to learn and grow and you will find very few slackers. My definition of fun would be almost a combination of the 2 descriptions you provided.
My older brother, while certainly biased due to his status as a Yalie, said he hears all the time of students saying that Yale is more fun, or how Harvard is much more stressful. While part of him is obviously trying to sway me towards Yale, is there any truth to this? My daughter Harvard Class of and son Yale Class of overlapped in school by three years, so I got to compare the schools directly to each other.
FWIW: New Haven — at least around the university — has become so much better over the past 30 years, as the university owns most of the surrounding commercial properties and very carefully selects what stores will go in their properties. And up north in Cambridge, once students reach the legal drinking age of 21, they are free to go to any bar in the city — and no longer are dependent on the final club scene for fun. If you are admitted to both, then you can revisit the H vs Y comparison at a later date.
He then applied to Harvard in the RD round as he thought it would be fun to attend college with his sister. However, he was rejected from Harvard. So, each of my kids played the hand they were dealt and did not have a choice in the matter. You may not either. He has absolutely found students to be supportive, rather than competitive. One weekend, they went to BU for one of those big keg blow-out kind of parties.
For him, once seems like enough for a while. FutureCollegeAthlete trust your older brother and gibby Would just add a comment related to what many students regard as the most important fun related comparison: The Game. While I agree with the general response others have given — yeah, Yale is more fun — honesty compels me to report that one of the best parties I ever attended was a party at Harvard the night before the Harvard-Yale game my freshman year.
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Executive Lifestyle. Katie Canales. Harvard University is one of the most prestigious, and expensive, schools in the country. So you'd think life as a student there would be wildly more luxurious and comfortable It turns out that going to Harvard looks a lot like attending any other US college.
Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 20 minutes west of downtown Boston by car. It's the hardest college to gain acceptance to in the US. As a result, the institution and its graduates have garnered a prestigious reputation. After all, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg attended before famously dropping out — and now he runs one of the largest tech companies in the world.
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