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I wanted to study history and government at Harvard. Second choice was history at Yale with directed studies freshman year.
Georgetown was my top choice. Followed a girlfriend to a lesser-target in DC. End well that did not, should've transferred when I had the chance. Recruitment is a bitch right now.
Good luck.
never really cared about school until i started at a state school and realized i needed to get out/could do better
I wanted to do premed at Johns Hopkins, but switched out of the sciences once I realized that $250,000 per year after 12 years of hard work, negligible earnings and massive debt is not that great. Contrary to what I had heard growing up, medicine had faded from its heyday in the early 90s to a firmly upper middle class profession. I actually loved science, but I didn't see any other reliably high paying careers in the field. I am grateful everyday that I didn't start at JHU, only to realize I didn't want to do medicine...or worse, go to a school with nothing but hard sciences, like Caltech.
Looking back, I wish I had applied to Stanford. I wanted to get out of California, and have been trying to get back ever since. Maybe it was worth it just to realize that I actually love my home state, despite its bad schools, broken politics, and high taxes.
It's not just premed here. That's probably only 1/3 of the student population. We have good opportunities in Poli Sci, English, Econ, Physics, etc.
I like it a lot here, but I will say my first choice(s) were Wharton and Dartmouth.
I love my alma mater and wouldn't trade my college experience, but I am really partial to Princeton after visiting it. I just wish they had a grad program I was more interested in.
U from ND?
Yes
amherst or williams - i applied ED to one of these. Still would if I had the chance. No lay prestige, but I would've loved it.
I wanted to study econ or chemistry at Dartmouth. I didn't get in :(
I go to a mid-Ivy, that I absolutely love but, seriously, Harvard, hands down. And not entirely for the name. The Government, Philosophy, and Economics faculties there are freaking legendary. The traditions are pretty awesome. Plus, Boston is a sick college town.
I agree 100% with this. I went to a non-HYP ivy, and harvard is just fucking incredible. The campus, history, academics, prestige, awesome college town, all combine to make it one of the best experiences ever. Plus, college chicks in boston LOVE Harvard guys.
This is the 3rd time I've heard this, what makes you say that?
Wanted to do applied math and econ at Harvard. Didn't get in. Still perfectly content with my current school though, which was my 2nd choice.
Any university... as a poor immigrant I didn't know about rankings or prestige anything after high school would do.
Berkeley - any major...would've been sick
Heard Berkeley's curves are incredibly painful and produces tons of drop-outs/low-GPA students..
Well, duh. It's full of Asians.
Me? I would have liked to go to a good school. Any good school. Perhaps somewhat fortunately for me, I ended up studying in a very rigorous, albeit completely non-target, school. In Asia. Where you are surrounded by Asians who study 18h/7d. Woke my lazy ass up.
Wanted to go to Amherst, didn't get in and ended up elsewhere, but I would have used my ED card to go to Penn non Wharton, or Duke.
I wanted to go to Duke.
I decided to go to a community college after high school so I could get an associates in music then move onto a sound engineering school. Changed my mind and applied to transfer to UMich. Only actual university I applied to haha. Still pretty close to home which is pretty essential at this moment, and instate tuition rawks my sawks.
I wish I had followed my dreams to the University of Texas. Damn women will be the end of me.
I would have taken Duke, UVA, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Southern Cal, Georgetown, or Vanderbilt coming out of high school. Probably Texas too honestly, I think I would enjoy working in Dallas/Houston and McCombs reigns down there.
Top three would be UVA, Harvard, Princeton in no order.
I didn't have the grades for any of those schools coming out of HS (had a knack for not liking to do homework for my first three years) but I turned it around in college and I'm now at one of the above (not Vandy, my username was made when I was at my old school). Now, I'd probably toss Dartmouth in there.
@seedy underbelly What exactly is a mid Ivy?
Top choice was Harvard. But the topless girls sunbathing on the quads of some of the state schools I visited made it a really competitive choice.
@kmzz the girls at your state school weren't a factor in your decision?
^Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia are mid tier(imo) HYP P,D,Col C,B
easy guys
no need to get a Harv on
tbh I'd rather go to BC if I was in Boston...
actual sports teams, better looking girls for sure, more of a college atmosphere, not full of DB's
Then when it's time to get a job...
Boston girls aren't very good looking. I think Vandy. UT, or USC would be a lot of fun-good academics, good social scene. Still would take Harvard over everything else.
^ I think you can through Northwestern into that bunch as well. Maybe Stanford or Duke too.
Buyside, how do you know so much about colleges at 16?
In 6th grade my grade visited Columbia, in 7th we visited Princeton, and in 8th we visited Yale. Also when I was preparing my prep school apps, I came across a site call CollegeConfidential. The rest is history.
Princeton, Boston, NorthEastern, NorthWestern, Cornell, or West Point
I could KILL the people that talked me out of applying. The applications were half done when the fuckers around me convinced me to just "relax". Now, when I hear someone tell me to "chill" I shove them OUT OF MY WAY.
People who tell you not to go for the gold are NOT your friends.
Stanford or UNC (out of state) were my first choices.
Ended up at Wake Forest and wouldn't change it.
First pick was Babson College, until I visited Villanova. Great campus, good undergrad business program and the girls sealed the deal.
Turned down Villanova because it was too expensive and instead went to a non-target with better financial aid.
Berkeley when I was younger because I wanted to be an engineer. Stanford would now be my dream school, followed by Wharton, Harvard, and UT-Austin.
At a non-target state school because I turned away from wanting to go college in HS and didn't do near good enough for a school like those. Hopefully a solid grad school will help me turn it around.
Out of HS I wanted to go to Ohio State because all I gave a shit about was sports and had actually planned on becoming a cop. Then when I didn't get an athletic scholarship to Ohio State I went to a mid major for my sport were I eventually ended up transferring to a decent target and changing my goals. But I wish I had actually given a shit in HS and gotten into Stanford. Every person I know absolutely loves it there and they have top notch recruiting.
Yale. Still my irrational first choice for BSchool because of that.
I'd never set another foot in New haven...even if it means not going to Yale.
Midway through college I wish I applied to the Naval Academy. But at that point I had already obligations to my sports team and a good group of friends. I wish I thought about it during high school.
When I was in HS, I thought I'd do well enough in a Canadian university and then go over to the States for grad school or an MBA down the road. In hindsight, I was probably good enough to get into a target and saved myself a ton of hassle
I would've applied to Stanford (reach), Northwestern, UIUC, NYU. Enough mental masturbation for the day =(
I didn't know enough about the college admissions process when involved in it. I'm not going to name the names but they were both Ivy and I declined because I didn't believe I'd fit. Mid-college I realized that was absolutely bollocks on my part.
Wanted to go to Duke, Berkeley, or Northwestern (in order of preference) because I was and still am a sports nut and couldn't live without some sort of a D1 sports scene, plus those are all pretty prestigious schools globally. I actually didn't apply to any because I knew I wouldn't have a shot in hell and only applied to Cornell as a reach and got waitlisted. I'm hoping I can turn it around and get into one of those for grad school
I wanted to go to Notre Dame from the time I can remember. Didn't apply, though.
If I could go back... Princeton, Wharton, UVA, and Dartmouth.
Duke, UC, or UNC.
I applied ED to stern and got in, but I kinda wish I tried for some harder schools just to see on the slight chance I'd get in (prob Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton) in that order.
It's more the major rather than the school. I would have loved to have done engineering with my liberal arts major instead of just liberal arts. I would have loved to have gone to Stanford for engineering. Then my alma mater or UTexas (I love sports and the scene)
Wanted to go to Yale.
Ended up going to another Ivy. Very glad I did, though of schools I was accepted at I was very partial to Duke.
Was sorry I ultimately did not apply to MIT. Would like a piece of paper from that school but probably would have jumped in the Charles having spent 4 years there.
Brady has a complete boner for HBS.
I can smell the prejaculate from here
I wanted to go to Michigan.
I went to Michigan.
Tangentially related: Ohio State, Tressel, and Pryor can all eat a dick.
haha
yea, but the 8,456 days before that were pretty awesome. and the last 6 weeks have been pretty clutch as well.
Looking back I would have loved to go to MIT.
cosign on the HBS stories
harvard, yale, princeton, columbia, and MIT.
MAN FUCK THIS SHIT. Why were ALL YOU PEOPLE SO MATURE BACK THEN?! I mean, SHIT. i was such a late bloomer in high school. i had a class rank of 153/736 and had an in-school suspension for programming a trojan and virus and implanting it in a classroom computer (so i can monitor that computer from another classroom and mess around with whoever was using it at the time, like turn up the sound and make sex noises, etc...)
i swear, my mom was looking to put me in community college after graduation until i took my SATs in junior year and scored a 640/800. That was the defining moment when I actually thought to myself "what the fuck? i actually have ...potential?" my mom was also taken aback. Hoping to raise my verbal score and also to verify that my SATs were indeed, accurate of my abilities, I took the SAT again senior year and scored 780/800/800. At that moment, I immediately started filing apps to every single top US college (1 week from deadline. Apps written in haste. TOTALLY FUCKING REGRET NOT BEING MATURE EARLIER.). Previously I had only sent apps to UNC and a few state colleges in the Carolinas.
I was waitlisted at Wharton, Cornell, Brown, UNC Chapel Hill, Michigan, Columbia Engineering, Univ Virginia. Rejected from HYP and MIT and Virginia Tech Engineering (yes you heard me right), and Chicago.
Later rejected from all of the above waitlisted schools with all the admissions directors saying that they did not think I was "mature enough" to study at their institutions and encouraged me to apply transfer noting that my high SAT scores showed I had potential.
It was then that I finally snapped out of it and started hounding everyone and every opportunity I know and blasted in a shit load of materials to Wharton, the only waitlisted school who hasn't dinged me yet. At the end of July, a fucking phone call from Wharton one morning nearly gave me a heart attack. By then I had already submitted my deposit to attend North Carolina State Univ hoping to grow up and transfer later. Left my deposit there and packed my shit and headed to Wharton just one week later.
IF ONLY. If only I was grown up back in HS, I should have gotten into a lot more places. I didn't even know MIT had an undergrad business program until my 3rd year in college! I still remember joking around with my weed-smoking punk goth friends about going to Carolina State and majoring in music or some shit and coming back to start a band with them later.
WHAT. THE. FUCK. WAS. I THINKING.
OH NOES, OMG MY LIFE IS A MESS BECAUSE I ONLY GOT INTO GOD DAMN SHITTY WHARTON AND DON'T HAVE 8 OTHER IVY ACCEPTANCE LETTERS TO HANG ON MY WALL. WTF WILL I DO WITH MY LIFE OMG!! I SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER!!!
my post was about luck - something none of us should EVER rely on. seeing how i was rejected even at virginia tech, i should have been dinged from wharton as well. if that were the case, i'd be wiping my ass at knucklehead state univ all because i wasnt mature enough
Wow. This story is inspiring as fuck. I love your tenacity and perseverance. I can't even imagine how shocked you were when you got that phone call from wharton.
I was waitlisted at harvard, yale, AND princeton. I was so devastated that I cried for several days, did not leave my house, and broke up with my girlfriend. My yale alumni interviewer, who was extremely impressed by me, called the admissions office on my behalf but still no cigar. The word I got from yale was that if I had scored a bit higher on the SAT i would have gotten in. It was gut wrenchingly painful knowing that I was so close to the ultimate prize but still fell short.
Brady, I just wanted to let you know... if you get rejected from HBS, we're here for you bro. Don't go sucking on no exhaust pipes.
Where did you end up going anyways?
anywhere? H, Y, or P, duh.
realistically, my biggest regret is studying econ and not finance. i know they are comparable from a recruiting standpoint, but i only learned theoretical stuff as an econ major, and wish i had learned more hard skills in finance.
That's a fucking joke. Why would you spend $160k of your/someone else's money to learn shit YOU WILL ALREADY LEARN in the workplace.
Study econ, fine, but be a fucking human being. Have a life/interests outside of finance...
Funnily enough, I got into the school that I wished I had gone to (one of H/P). Turned it down to goto a school with a better engineering faculty, but ranked lower overall.
In retrospect, probably not the right decision. Problem with me back then (and to some extent even today) is if I don't like a topic/field/task, I find it really hard to try. As it turns out, I hated my major, and not trying leads to some pretty ghastly results in engineering...haha. Anyhow, long story short - I graduated with a not-so-great gpa. The social life at my uni probably wasn't the best either, so it's not like I had a lot of partying to show for my gpa.
I did, however, find a professor who did research in something I ended up loving, and somehow got a RAship under him (which was tricky, since he had a super high bar for taking students - a bar far above my GPA at that time). Absolutely killed that, and that was probably my only saving grace that landed me a few jobs on graduation.
20/20 hindsight - tis a bitch.
Is funnily a word?
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/07/is-%E2%80%9Cfunnily-enough%E2…
attending high school I got a 4.0 GPA but was too committed to a sport I dearly loved.....in hindsight had I known one injury would ruin my professional career I would have applied to HPM, Wharton, Dartmouth as I know so many ppl from my high school having lower gpas then I did that went to all of the above mentioned schools.
UVa. Still might try my hand at Darden.
Art Institute of Chicago, I always liked color by numbers.
Also: HBS story for you:
Valentine's Day I called up an HBS friend because I didn't have a date. He was out with about 12-14 other people in a limo with a seemingly limitless supply of alcohol. We met up and we crawled around the town, drinking INSANE amounts of champagne and other things. No wait anywhere we went. Bottle service. Got thrown out a few places (couple girls getting fresh with doormen/bouncers). Can't say I remember all the night 100%.
HBS rents out entire buildings for parties... infamous Priscilla Ball, white party, etc. I went to the best Halloween party HBS threw once.
Weekends in Vegas? Try weekends in Dubai...
Awesome. This is exactly what I've heard as well. HBS throws tons of parties, especially costume themed parties. And they have casino nights, weekend boat cruise on newport harbor, rhode island, and of course trips abroad. HBS guys are at the top of the social hierarchy in Boston. Heck, the girls at wellesley even invite all the 1st year guys to a huge annual party, and they pay for limos to pick them up.
HBS really is the best 2 years of your life. So much more fun than college; it's not even close.
Hilarious that HBS girls were getting "fresh" with the doormen. Lol.
Not sure I agree on social hierarchy. Not all HBS kids have a lot of money, and even the ones who do have debt to match.
No, sir, the top of the food chain, based on what I've observed, are the folks within the Bain Capital family... good lawyer gigs like Ropes & Gray... maybe some good corporate jobs within large companies like Novartis or other Pharmaco...
Oh and being a Bruin...
Went to USC, and would do it again without hesitation. Looking back, I would say my second and third choices would be Stanford and Michigan, respectively. I'm a jock and I like jock schools.
^^This is just funny. I dated a Harvard chick and my experience was just the opposite. The HBS dudes I meet were career-focused geeks. Bar hopping in a limo with booze in the middle of Boston/Cambridge sounds lame, that's like an average Thursday night at SC. I had to google the "infamous" Priscilla Ball because despite visiting the campus on 4 different occasions I have never heard of it, and it looks like its a crossdressing party.
Not to mention that HBS is only 30% female. And they're not all pretty.
Hey bro. You seem insanely jealous that you couldn't go to HBS. Sure, the girls are not as hot as USC undergrad, but the school is full of attractive, accomplished, interesting people. The social scene at HBS is awesome. For those in their mid-late 20's who are looking for something different from college binge drinking and frat parties, nothing beats HBS.
Check out this video of HBS students discussing how they are going to divide Boston’s hot girls by region among themselves:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/SWfp7FNYtnk
I thought you guys were talking about Harvard's UG, not the MBA B-School.
What about "HBS" makes you think of ug?
I know they meant HBS. I meant to quote an earlier post which made me think it was UG. Was looking forward to a UG story, but HBS will do.
A lot of HBS students are married, FWIW...
But the ones that aren't...
Also, none of the HBS guys I knew fucked girls under 21. No. One.
Pretty sure most hot chicks think that Wellington is a company that makes rubber boots and that Baupost is a nazi concentration camp. Not sure how prestigious these things would sound to them. The ones that are impressed by names like Bain are mostly of the nerdy type. If that's your target - well, to each his own. From what I've seen, hot women (if we are really talking about hot ones) are after lots of money and/or good looks. Most MBA students are not exactly at the top in these categories.
They know that HBS= good chance of pretty good money
No homo, but there are a lot of good looking charismatic men at HBS.
lol this has gone too far, Brady. It's just getting way ridiculous now.
I probably would have broadened my application horizons. I got rejected from Wharton (1st choice) but ended up going to Duke (my second choice). Passed over UNC, Columbia, (waitlist at) Stanford (which my parents said they weren't gonna pay for me to go to lol).
I still think I should have applied to H/P/Y- I think my viewpoint going into college and now being in college are so different. It also would have helped had I marked "Native American" on my college applications. Unintended consequences of a blind adoption. lol
Toss up: I wanted Stanford MS & E, MIT MS & E, Wharton's Jerome Fisher and Princeton's ORFE program pretty hard. Got into a bunch of American schools but nothing seemed worth it after not getting my way on those tbh.
It all works out in the end though as long as you're at the same end-point.
Yes, by MBA standards. The good-looking ones would have gotten action even if they were not at HBS.
Currently go to, what is considered a "low tier" ivy even though that is all bull shit, and love it. Would not trade it for harvard or princeton or anywhere. I got a solid internship from here and I have plenty of friends.
I do not regret forgoing my acceptances to Northwestern/Brown/Stern/Dartmouth/Etc one bit
Cornell?
prolly Dartmouth. Everyone that goes to Cornell say it's a mid-tier Ivy. I agree w/ them
However, I do want to go to stanford for my MBA. If i choose to get one
Wanted to go to Michigan. Went to Michigan. Still would pick it over any other school.
What is it with me, you, and djfii? Are you from MI too? In high school it seemed like the smart kids just wanted to go to Michigan ( I wasn't one of the smart kids then).
Wanted to go to West Point, but I'm not a US Citizen, so I could not even apply. Getting frustrated at a third tier school, since I did not know a lot after "getting off the boat!" and my HS record wasn't great either. Have a 4.0 at my current school and trying to transfer to a top Liberal Arts college.
Good luck man. Hope you can it.
Wow...I'd say
Harvard Princeton/Yale/Wharton Columbia Dartmouth Penn (not Wharton) Cornell/Brown
UVA/USC/UCLA/Harvard
Harvard/Yale/Princeton Columbia/Dartmouth/UPenn Cornell/Brown
This is not for IB recruiting. This is what most people consider as the tiers of the IVY league.
Even though tiers are bull shit and all of them are good.
Princeton or Stanford or Bust. Fuck Harvard. Undergrad Only
You. are. in. High school.
Clearly this threat does not apply to you, nor do you have anything to contribute... note the imperative words "imagine you were 16-18 years old" not "be 16-18 years old".
Just not a valuable contribution even to a frivolous thread.
Lol you took the time just to tell me that? Awwwww u do care!! Its sweet you went out of your way just to tell me that. God Bless.
if I were to do an MBA in the future then my first and foremost choice would only be HBS
Fuck this ivy league ranking discussion. I want to hear more juicy stories about the social scene at HBS. It sounds like if you're a single guy, HBS is way more fun than going to a big state school college.
yeah, it seems like that too. I think they're just HYPing(see what I did there?) it up. I'm not trying to say these Harvard guys are boring/nerds but I don't think they party like state schoolers. I'm sure they party but in a formal way. I don't think Harvard guys party like U of F frat guys.
No; I'm not hyping it up.
State schools are fun but in a very different way. The girls are obviously hotter, and there's more crazy parties, but for me personally, I was never into frat parties and playing beer pong. What makes HBS so fucking awesome (this applies to top b-schools in general but especailly HBS) is that 1) grades don't matter, so there's so much less pressure academically 2) you're surrounded by some of the most accomplished and interesting people you'll ever encounter 3) everyone wants to party and experience the best 2 years of their life 4) there's no shortage of fun social events and parties 5) TONS of travelling; it's ridiculous how much these guys travel.
I know this is kind of random but how does Wesleyan econ do for IB/S&T?
got into berkeley, chicago, columbia, cornell, cmu, nyu, rice - think i would've been happy at anyone of them, but for finance, being in NYC is a huge plus
Haha. Go Lions! :D
But, honestly, Sternies are the biggest tools.
Growing up in public schools in Texas, you are taught that UT is the best school in the world... now I'm at UT. I always hated the "nerds" that were above me in class rank (I was in the top 7%). Even though this sounds corny, after watching The Social Network I realized being the best and smartest is fucking awesome and wish I tried harder in HS. Now I want to go to HBS. Prestige is a bitch.
inb4 psychoanalysis.
I went to a mediocre public high school in the south as well, where no one even thought about ivy league schools. I was different though and was obsessed with prestige. Honestly, I think getting into a truly elite school is one of the best feelings in the world.
Good luck with HBS. If you can pull it off, it will be the 2 most amazing years of your life, and you will have a lifetime of prestige, respect, and status.
was? You're a borderline parody. I've never seen someone so enamored with Harvard. The name brand of your school is simply an indicator to others about your potential to do great things. It doesn't guarantee that you're able to do great things. I can't tell you how many HYP kids I've met over the years that are completely mediocre.
Brady4MVP, what school did/do you go to?
Right. The distinction is, the "reward" you are interested in is simple and limited: improving how other people view you. All you seem to care about is that everyone else thinks you're awesome. Your focus is being part of what you perceive to be this small club of ultra elite global ballers. You're content to get there on the backs of true giants that came before you, i.e. those that go to a place like Harvard to actually innovate and create. You want to benefit from the brand their genius built without contributing to it. But you aren't like them, as evidenced by the fact that your focus is entirely on the "lifestyle" you think HBS kids lead. I feel like you would introduce yourself to anyone that would listen like "Hi I'm Joe Blow, Harvard undergrad, HBS; nice to meet you";
Wow. Never thought of it like this before. Would you say that HBS essentially places bets on students? Students that are the most likely to change the world get accepted so HBS can get your name on their resume?
Wanted to go to Stanford. Ended up at a shit-tier school
Harvard. Oh well.
^^Definitely makes sense.... People have said something along the lines of "The people who get into HBS, don't need HBS"
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates remind me of this... if they were to have stayed and graduated from Harvard, Harvard would get some of the credit for what they've done (in a way)... but they dropped out, showing that they never really needed Harvard in the first place
^ thats because the adcoms at HBS can select for people who are already successful, give them 2 years of partying, and take credit for the value that their graduates create.
I'm from NYC and wanted to go to Columbia or NYU. But didn't get it, I wish I tried harder in H.S I just want one redo..
Duke or UNC. Of course Harvard, but that was not happening. Moral of the story: try harder and never let anyone make decisions for you.
it seems like nearly everybody on this thread would suck dick to get into Harvard
Lol.
Originally went to Williams, had fun but was absolutely bored to death. Transfered to Stern, fucking love NYU but wish I would've transferred into CAS so I could do a CS major.
Currently at Carnegie Mellon and love it but I do wish I was less of a slacker in High School so that ED application to Wharton wouldn't have gone to waste...
1) Badass Recruiting 2) Badass Parties 3) Badass Friends that go there
456789...) Chicks.
Can you tell us more about the badass parties and chicks at wharton undergrad?
I wanted to go to Stanford, but I ended up only getting into Harvard and Yale. Not kidding.
where are you at now?
Word on the street is UPenn girls love Wharton guys :D
Breakdown, by age: 16: Harvard, Yale 25: Dartmouth, NYU, Yale
Wanted to study International business with some kind of language minor at NYU. Obviously, they have a great business school and because I have a Ukrainian dad and a Swedish mom, I've always wanted to do something internationally focused. Also, being from a semi-small city, the thought of living/studying/working in the US's biggest one seemed great.
I had always wanted to go to Princeton since I was 10 or so, and I ended up as a Tiger.
Brady, just curious (as are many other people in this thread), what school did you end up going to after getting waitlisted at HYP?
I ended up going to Penn. Great school obviously, but I was extremely unhappy there. I was planning on applying for transfer to harvard and yale, but a medical illness my freshman year forced me to take a semester off, and that foiled my plans.
I had no idea what I wanted to do coming out of high school, so I followed my friends to Purdue for the in-state tuition. In retrospect, even having no idea, I really should have taken my 1570 SAT somewhere better.
If you didn't know what to do, why didn't you just go to the college that would give you the best overall education(and had the best rep) so when you did decide, you'd be in a good position.
upenn wharton. enough said.
but i realized it doesn't really matter where you start, b/c in the end what matters is what you get out of the given surrounding.
UCLA.
i'm from california so UCLA and Cal were the two public schools everybody went to. UCLA seemed so much cooler.
Rejected by Duke, rejected by Columbia, rejected by Florida (that one was puzzling), waitlisted by CMU, waitlisted by Vanderbilt, got into two mediocre state schools. I chose one of those mediocre state schools. Now I'm just preparing for my life sentence in IT.
BUMP. Let this thread die and I'll make your bank go under. :D
Don't you have a bedtime to adhere to?!
Don't you have some cold calling to do?
I would've loved to go to Stanford, but my "bottom tier ivy" was a better choice for me. I really underestimated how awesome a frat scene makes undergrad.
I'm sorry, did you just say CMU has a lot of chicks and great parties? Dude you may as well have studied abroad in China with that student population.
So after RE mentioned googling Priscilla Ball and saying that it looked like a crossdressing party, I had to google it myself because crossdressing and HBS don't seem to go well together on paper
however:
http://www.insidehbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/63387422_siekj-o.jpg
wtf is this? count me out. The only reason I would go there is to take pictures of all the dudes dressed as women so I could use it for blackmail in the future.
Ridic campus. Best institution for undergrads: Princeton.
For reals... You can go bar hopping in limos anywhere. Granted you'll have a better chance that you're friends will have enough money to do so at Harvard, it seems like an experience that's not necessarily limited to Harvard. At all. Nobody's doubting Harvard's academic reputation, but you can do that stuff anywhere.
"For those in their mid-late 20's who are looking for something different from college binge drinking and frat parties, nothing beats HBS."
What about Wharton, Stanford, Booth? Sure, the people there may not be as obsessed with prestige as some HBS students (ie Brady if he gets in), but there are going to be more than enough very bright people at those schools than anybody could handle.
Booth's social scene is weak. Wharton is pretty fun, but philly is a dump. HBS partying and travelling is at another level; I've never seen anything like it. Basically it's non-stop costume parties, theme parties, going crazy at boston clubs, and travelling to cool exotic places while not giving a damm about grades.
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come on man... how do you know that hbs's partying and traveling is at another level? you're just talking out of your ass
I've visited my friends there several times and have seen firsthand what it's like. And venturecapitalista have confirmed it as well. If you have a friend at HBS you should go visit, and you'll know i'm not bullshitting.
Even the boston magazine did an article about the HBS social scene.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/aint_no_party_like_an_hbs_party/
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