Don't ever tell anyone I said this: Harvard is special. There's a 10% layer of legacy boneheads who went to good enough prep schools to goose their SATs (GPAs for Harvard feeder prep schools obviously grade everything to an 'A' -- that's why they're called "prep" schools) -- scrape those Dubyas off your shoe. The other 90% of kids are wonderful. The sickest joke in this country (and we have quite a few) is that so many of those kids, who are really interesting and multi-dimensional thinkers, and not at all the type of dirtbag you'd expect to go into finance, when they graduate... go into finance.
HYP get, and again I swear if you repeat this I'll kill you, a bad rap because they have so many laughable upper class twit of the year alumni. If anything they're probably underestimated. The median student at HYP is, and it pains me to say this, way more interesting than the median student pretty well anywhere else. Some places do intensive study in a particular discipline better (MIT, Cal Tech), but very few places have such well-rounded students.
Now I'm going to drink heavily enough that I forget the whole topic.
