Man, fuck Haaaaahvard anyway. What’s their dropout rate over 4 years? 2%? You have to try to get kicked out of that place. Not only that, everyone there are hypercompetitive sawed off puppy fuckers, self righteous because they go to Haaaahvard. Go to a State school, work your ass off, and your education will mean just as much if not more. Well, not in terms of future employers, but… yea.
That’s madness, I had no idea it worked that way there. Here we just get in based on meaningless stuff like our grades. Of course, we really don’t have an Ivy League type system.
Well done. 
brownie55 seems to enjoy threadshitting around the pit. He’s the unsurprising ass. In fact, “unsurprising ass” would be a great doper name… I can think of a few who could use that particular nom de sock.
Other than that, don’t feel bad, kiddo. I went to a “name” school and I still can’t find a job, whereas my friends who went to no-name state U seem to be doing just fine. CMU is a nice name, and people in the know respect it. You’ll have a blast. Don’t worry about the legacy system, there will always be people gifted with things at birth that they wind up, through eventual character, undeserving of. That’s… life?
If you want to go to Harvard, but didn’t get in, you should try to go to Haverford instead. It’s the next best thing. Because the names are so similar, some people will actually think that you went to Harvard. Especially drunk chicks. I mean, if you say it just right - like, kind of coughing and slurring it at the same time, like, “I went to Haaaghhhverrrrrfrd,” you can technically be telling the truth, but they’ll think you said Harvard. And therefore, will sleep with you.
What if the OP is female?
What, there are no women who sleep with other women?!
That’s especially true at name-recognition schools like Harvard. Lots of Harvard alumni are wealthy, so the school has a vested interest in keeping those wealthy alumni happy and donating.
What, you didn’t seriously think that G.W. Bush went to Yale Undergrad and Harvard Business on talent, did you?
That seems more like a hetero male pickup technique to me, but what do I know? Perhaps the sexual appeal of a lithe, spry, ivy-educated youth transcends traditional gender boundaries 
Wow, which Harvard did you go to? That’s not what I encountered there at all.
:shrug: The only folks I’ve seen who actually behave like that have been TV and movie characters. Although your attitude does remind me of some insecure middle-managers I’ve encountered along the way.
He was wearing my HARVARD tie…like oh sure, HE went to HARVARD!
Megaza, I’d be willing to bet that 20 years from now it won’t matter whether you went to Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, or some other school. I know a lot of bright successful people; I don’t know of any Harvard graduates among them. For that matter, the only time I’ve been aware of what schools my coworkers went to is when they make me aware of it by rooting for their school’s football team.
So a “a slimy, greedy, pompous bastard” got into Harvard and you didn’t. So what? There are a slimy, greedy, pompous bastards everywhere and in every school. As others have pointed out life isn’t fair and there are limits to what you can do about it. Whining about it on a message board won’t accomplish much. I’ll also guarantee that there are other people who were rejected by Harvard who’ve got a lot more to complain about than you do. Consider, for example, someone who did the best he could but was rejected because he went to a notoriously poor school district. For that matter, I’m sure there are people out there who were accepted by Harvard and CMU but who simply can’t afford the tuition. Twenty years ago, my brother was among them. Going to a different school didn’t stop him from becoming quite successful.
It is a sad fact of life that honest, ethical, frugal people don’t always finish first, and in some ways slimy bastards have a tactical advantage over them. There are some things you can do to change that, but not much. They’re worth doing, though, in my opinion. So, are you going to complain about how the other guy won or do everything you can to prove yourself the better person by leaving him in the dust? Trust me, that is possible.
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So a “a slimy, greedy, pompous bastard” got into Harvard and you didn’t. So what? There are a slimy, greedy, pompous bastards everywhere and in every school. As others have pointed out life isn’t fair and there are limits to what you can do about it. Whining about it on a message board won’t accomplish much. I’ll also guarantee that there are other people who were rejected by Harvard who’ve got a lot more to complain about than you do. Consider, for example, someone who did the best he could but was rejected because he went to a notoriously poor school district. For that matter, I’m sure there are people out there who were accepted by Harvard and CMU but who simply can’t afford the tuition. Twenty years ago, my brother was among them. Going to a different school didn’t stop him from becoming quite successful.
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I don’t disagree with the spirit of your post, but I need to correct a couple myths:
Coming from a poor school district is actually a plus for admissions–for one thing, bright kids are more likely to be ranked in the top five of their class. Also, the Ivys like urban and rural kids. The suburbs are over-represented. I teach at an urban high school, and I have had several of my students get into Ivy league schools without perfect transcripts.
Futhermore, the Ivys have gotten much, much better about finacial aid: Harvard doesn’t expect anyone to pay more than 10% of household income for tuition, so if your household income is 120,000/year, you will only play 12K a year for room, board, and tuition–where as at most state schools, that will cost 20K. If your household income is below 60K, you don’t pay a dime.
All that aside, as a teacher I deal with this cycle every year, and let me tell you that there is a certain randomness to it. There aren’t very many slots at the big schools–freshman classes are 1000-1600 at most–and a certain number of those slots are taken up by “development” admissions–that’s the people they think will donate a lot in the future–and by kids that are truly unique–kids that have started and run successful businesses by 18, kids that grew up traveling with doctors without borders, Olympic athletes, Senator’s sons. When we had a bosnian-refugee validictorian, every single Ivy accepted her, because she was probably the only one. So, get rid of those, and that 1000-1600 slots has shrunk down to 500-600 slots for kids that made great test scores and grades. They have a couple thousand applicants that fit those criteria, and that leads to a certain randomness.
The only time it ever mattered for me was my first job out of college. They cared where I went, and that I graduated. They never asked what my GPA was, nor for transcripts. The only thing they wanted to see was the parchment.
The company I work for now never even asked where I went to school. They only asked what degrees I have, and never asked me for any confirmation of them.
It quickly becomes irrelevant in industry.
Since I believe the main benefits from attending an Ivy are the connections one makes and doors that open based solely upon the name, rather than the education per se, I see no problem with them being up front about it from the get go with respect to admissions.
I was recently amused by a commentary on Harvard’s recent move to subsidize tuition for lower/middle class students. If they have sufficient endowment stashed away that they don’t need tuition, then exactly why were they increasing it above the rate of inflation all these years? 
If you choose to play in their game, it strikes me a a tad silly to complain that they make up and administer the rules however they wish.
The Ivy League is a football conference.
At least the OP can read.
At no point does the OP say that he even applied to Harvard. Instead of criticizing someone else’s writing ability, maybe you should worry about your end of the bargain.
Wrong. Everyone else is threadshitting. brownie55 is sticking up for the OP.
Get a clue.
Is your little friend’s last name Kennedy? If so, it isn’t anything to get worked up over. They have been pulling that crap for decades.