What are your assumptions about peole who went to Harvard? Have they proved to be true?
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"You can always tell a Harvard man/woman, but you can't tell him/her much."
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I'm for it.  My sister and brother-in-law homeschooled their two boys from kindergarten through high school graduation.  Both boys went on to college, and both have now graduated.\n\nI also have a lot of friends who have been (or are now) homeschoolers.  Those who have gone on to college have done extremely well.
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I applied there and  got a scholarship (half tuition payed for) and all but alas, I thought that the University of Houston was better (They offered more scholarship money) and closer to home.  I can still probably help your friend with their research.
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There's no way to predict, but you must fit into their profile.  \n\nThere are two lists:  smart, intelligent, competitive, active, "something special" kids is one group.  The second group is kids with rich fathers who are not so bright but the school wants Daddy's or Grandpa's money.  \n\nI suspect you are an international student and that may give you somewhat of an edge, especially if you can write a great essay about where you came from, being in the USA, and so forth.\n\nThe Ivy schools are a pressure cooker environment.  Be sure you really want to be there before you take the plunge!
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Academic success is dependent on a number of factors:\n1. Quality of evaluation\n2. Student performance\n3. Student behavior (lifestyle and decisions)\n\nWhether a school is a party school or known for high performance students does not really determine your personal performance.  There will be 4.0 students anywhere you go just as there will be students that do not do as well.  For example, I chose Miami University over Harvard because (1) I could not participate in the social life and (2) because Miami had a specialized academic program that I found very attractive.  The friends I made in that program could have been scholarship students at Harvard as well, but we liked what we were doing.  On the other hand, being in that program - even though it was mostly populated by honors students - did not gaurantee academic success!  My first roomie flunked out because he partied too much.  Later, a neighbor left the university for dealing pot.  He wasn't anything to brag about in terms of academics either, so we could just say he partied too much as well.\n\nOne concern that I have learned through experience about a party school (I now work at what might be called a "party school") is the environment.  A party school environment - even if you aren't one of the partiers, could be a distraction.  For example, I thought I was moving into a quiet neighborhood in an AWESOME location!  I could walk to work.  I could walk to restaurants.  What I hadn't realized was that I signed my contract in the summer and fall would be very different: enter the partiers...  During the fall, I had trouble sleeping.  Drunken students returning from bars would yell and scream from the sidewalks all the way home.  My neighbors, in what appeared to be a quiet neighborhood, were all frat hockey players that loved to party loud.  Although they were nice about when I complained, the fact was that their friends knew them and would make more noise as they walked by screaming to them, so it didn't matter.  Of course, even if they didn't have friends, there were the 4-5 am drunks lost and screaming at friends on their cell phones.  Needing to wake at 6-7am for my 8-5 job, I was was in insomnia HELL - particularly if I wanted ANY sort of life AT ALL because sleeping from 6-2 would have obliterated my social life.\n\nI didn't get honest answers about rental locations when I first arrived to work here.  You might not get the same at the UC schools, but BE CAREFUL where you sleep!  A party now and then never messed me over, but living in party central is a surefire recipie for disaster because I could not imagine doing well academically in my current sleep-deprived state.\n\nThat's my number one reason for selecting against the party school, but either way, make sure your sleeping arrangement is sound!  Outside of that, unless something is catastrophically wrong (and it sounds like you are comparing similar schools and that you're bright enough to be concerned about this), academic success should be possible at either.  Faculty at either school should offer good advice on account of their being around for a while...
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In high school I was a bright, young kid who was bored and never challenged. As an undergraduate, I paid the price for not learning how to study and apply myself academically in high school. I did fairly well, but not great. In my study for my master's degree, I was an honors student, and I finally received my Ph.D. which was the richest intellectual experience of my life.\n\n"So what," you ask? So, if I could do it, anyone with will, determination and dedication can become well-educated!!
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I can send you essays, so please write back if you want them, but I don't know as well what Harvard Style is. Do contact me
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You'd have to be on the top honors of your class with excellent grades and a high GPA that's more than 4.0.  Plus, you'd need to have lots of clubs and activities in your high school career to show that you'd be a great representative of their school.\n\nThey do accept first time freshmans into Harvard, but I think what your friends mean is according to the odds of being accepted to Harvard.  Harvard is a very hard school to get into because they have very high standards in their students.
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Yes, I'm sure there are many people that go to said school. Perhaps you should rephrase your question.
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Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Stanford
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Harvard, definitely. The opportunities that degree and department will offer and the doors it will open after graduation can't be underestimated.
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Harvard because that's where my dad went to get his masters in business. Got his bachelors from Duke\n\nlast name ABBOT\nbelieve he was class of 63 or somewhere there abouts
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I assume he got in with good grades, good test scores and a good admissions essay.\nHe "[g]raduated magna c u m laude from Harvard University, with a BA in History & Literature" in 1985."
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liar.\n\nif you're that smart, you would know to talk to ADMISSIONS
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I've never heard of it, and I live in PA and have several post-grad degrees.\n\nName recognition is definitely a factor to consider when choosing a school.  When you're looking for employment, it's going to be a lot easier if you can drop a name like Harvard.
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Harvard School of Law
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Logically, if you believe in myths you are less intelligent.\n\nI don't need a harvard study to prove that.\n\nAnd from all of the brilliant IQs found above, you can also conclude that the majority are not just less intelligent, but liars.