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"America's first female president will be a smoking hot chinese american who went to boarding school, then harvard, then worked for mckinsey, then got elected directly to the senate/house"
"This from a guy who was raised wealthy, went to an expensive private school, got into Harvard, and subsequently made hundreds of millions of dollars working for hedge funds."
"Episcopalian WASPs with nine generations of Harvard attendees in their family tree who are the nicest people you've ever met, but you just know their money came from something actually evil."
"nor is he from the typically left leaning pro palestine Columbia/brown/harvard crt colleges"
"I keep thinking about the STEM-ification of modern life, thanks to r/RSP. Decline of humanities majors (e.g. that New Yorker article about Harvard students struggling to read the Scarlet Letter), ChatGPT, DALL-E, gamified dating apps, rise of neuroticism, pop-psych lingo, etc."
"Basically I feel like I'll be reading an interview from the Chair of the Department of Polynesian studies at Harvard or some shit and they'll be like "yeah back when I was a sophomore in college I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do.""
"She takes her bra off on the couch and just leaves it there. She leaves half empty diet soda cans all over the apartment. If she does do something like vacuum she slams it into the walls and cabinets because she just wants to be done as soon as possible."
"Applied to a graduate program and got rejected. I don't care though. Seriously, i don't care. It's an alright school, but isn't Boston kind of lame anyways? Again, the main point is that I don't care."
"This is huge, like the difference between getting a full ride vs even being accepted. Getting into Harvard vs a state school, etc."
"Osnos's dad was a successful publisher who also worked as a correspondent for the Washington Post, he grew up in Greenwich, and he attended Harvard. I mean, come on."
"That AOC tweet about 70% of Harvard legacies being White, which is proportional to population but whatever, and the fact that this is the one time it seems to be okay to imply Clarence Thomas got his degree through affirmative action (which is bad) and that Barack Obama is also an affirmative action"
"This is inspired by the post I just saw about Harvard switching out of test-optional admissions, and someone speculating on the "stories coming out of classrooms" that prompted this."
"And the parents seem unhinged, like if their kid doesn't get into Harvard they've failed as a human being and they'll be totally crushed."
"He was such a good guy, probably the smartest person I've ever met. He started off with a degree in art history, worked in museums, became an expert on art, got into Harvard, became a lawyer then a professor of environmental law."
"Yes its important to stop people from beating up Asians, yes there are a lot of people who are racist to Asians (and not just black people, stupidpol), but don't pretend pre-COVID Asian American politics over the last few years wasn't mostly complaining about Harvard admissions and making AMWF porn."
"All of the cool, smart, interesting people I know are going to/go to some random liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere. The people I know going to Harvard and shit are all NPC overacheiver dorks."
"That Summers was briefly allowed to teach Harvard undergrads *after* the emails were released is criminal."
"Actually I remember now that it was Princeton. It was late and I was otw to a truck stop where I walked past an adult diaper full of shit abandoned in the parking lot."
"Whatever it's INTENTION, the FUNCTION of Harvard is deprive you and your kids of competitive opportunity, unless you were or they can be admitted, which they can't. You should be happy to see Harvard and Harvard students taken down a peg."
"Actually Will, the coursework required to achieve a degree from Harvard is very different than simply reading books at a library at your own pace. In a Univeristy course, you will have guided discussion, be introducted to multiple conflicting viewpoints and be given assignments."
"I'd be interested to hear her talk about her Harvard days she's beautiful and talented"
"just saw an article that praised the new mayor of Boston for being the "first POC mayor." it must be **super** hard to be a harvard educated asian woman in this crazy, oppressive world."
"People like RBG have more in common with people like Kavanaugh than with us, wealthy and from either Yale or Harvard."
"I think I've met one genuinely "gifted" person in my life. He graduated from Harvard in physics at age 16. He is the strangest person I have ever met (to my knowledge not diagnosed with autism, but, well)."
"on par with 90s minimalism and i'm not sure how else one would expect a harvard educated lawyer to dress"
"His mom was cia doing shit in indonesia, he was a regular indonesian muslim kid, he works at the cia front business corporation or whatever it's called, and then when it's time he breaks up w his white nyc girlfriend and marries the picture of black excellence (from englewood chicago to harvard)."
"Being a native New Englander my fondest memories of my PhD university of Chicago alumnist father was verbally harassing Harvard students in Harvard square and I think that's the spirit of the sub, cutting through the bullshit to find the real mfrs."
"You're telling me making test scores optional wasn't the most brilliant DEI move in academic history? Apparently making test scores optional has historically failed to increase diversity, from Forbes in 2021"
"it's funny seeing the harvard supreme court case between asians and the jewish president of harvard, the stop asian movement against black people and asians"
"What impresses Asian parents the most is a place with a lot of white people."
"Read an article about a truck driving around Harvard with an LED screen showing the names and faces of 'antisemites'"
"I'd kill for a Harvard law degree and practically being born into American royalty."
"I've met scholars with degrees from Harvard and Oxford who can't find shit all. Applied anthropology however, is flourishing apparently, DOD is having a field day in the current environment."
"It's from Harvard, a boiler plate letter saying they'll add it to my (nonexistent up until that point) file and that I had to apply normally."
"I've seen a few Harvard related posts today but has anyone here experienced the emotional trauma of dating a UChicago student?"
"They've hired Ph.D language and computer scientists. Harvard educated lawyers that drive Porsche's and computer science researchers from big name universities like Duke and Yale."
""I want to go to Princeton," said Amory. "I don't know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes.""
"Arguably the most naturally desirable piece of land on the planet, temperate weather year round, beautiful beaches right next to majestic mountains... reduced to this."
"Literally beyond parody lol Harvard degrees are a farce"
"That Summers was briefly allowed to teach Harvard undergrads *after* the emails were released is criminal."
"big names like Harvard and Columbia have been in the news for their reactions to their respective funding cuts (based Harvard, cringe Columbia)"
"He said he was admitted to Harvard early in his senior year of high school, but the university rescinded its offer"
"this primitive text interface that I invented so I could non-consensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergraduates"