College Overview: Harvard

Harvard: Academic opportunities
The reason I choose Harvard is just the academic opportunities and everything that’s attached to the name. I mean how can you turn it down. The government concentration has 4 subfields. American politics, Political theory, International relations, and Comparative government. And you can sort of pick which field you want to focus on, but if you want to take courses in various fields you can also do that as well. Another great thing about the government is a lot of classes that aren’t in the depar...

Harvard: Dylan at Harvard?
The government concentration is something that provides me probably the most flexibility in terms of doing extracurricular activities, integrating other opportunities that Boston provides, but at the same time I’m very interested in politics, I hoping leaving school to get involved in some international development issues. I think the government concentration provides me at least a core knowledge in issues of government and political theory. At the same time it provides me enough flexibility to ...

Harvard: The Alumni Network
Alumni its definitely part of the admissions, it would be foolish to say that it’s not. The networking is huge at Harvard…especially at Harvard there’s alumni that can definitely do and can hook you up with internships. Especially they have a lot of alumni events and you know if you’re part of like a specific team or anything you can definitely, you end up running into those alumni.

Harvard: Brrr
My freshman year I was sitting in my dorm room in Harvard yard and I think it was 23 below zero and the wind was shaking the windows and checked the weather in Santa Barbara where I’m from and it was something like 82 degrees. There are really long winters in Boston and you spend a lot of time in your room. It’s a little more conducive to studying as professors would say. A lot of kids get down because of that. All the athletes on the team do their own thing on campus and that’s something tha...

Harvard: The Harvard Brand
The Harvard brand just commands so much respect. There are so many opportunities available here at Harvard. Whether it be from the distinguished faculty, the opportunity to meet world leaders from across the globe. Just the diversity of the campus and its location is what made Harvard an attractive choice for me.