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Some parts of Harvard are world class, while others are riding on brand recognition. I've been at Harvard and several other schools, and Harvard had the highest
by queuebert 3y ago
Some parts of Harvard are world class, while others are riding on brand recognition. I've been at Harvard and several other schools, and Harvard had the highest ratio of brand to substance and in many cases was strictly inferior to the good state schools.
- jchanimal 3y agoI remember laughing (from the Reed College library) at a radio interview about attempts to reduce grade inflation in the Ivies, because a student was interviewed complaining, "We have to study so hard, some weekends I don't even go out!" No one in my cohort had to study, we wanted to.
- hellisothers 3y agoFor the most part I found people didn’t come to Reed for the brand, you went for the academics (and weirdness) and it showed.
- prottog 3y ago[dead]