[aothman]

Seems strange to write an article complaining about the Harvard bubble when the only reason it's getting printed in the Paris fucking Review is that it's about Harvard in the first place. People have weird/terrible/difficult college experiences all the time, but the guy who went to Iowa State never gets a similar forum to talk about himself.

A lot of people at Harvard were uncomfortable there. I wasn't. I loved the place and made great friends. It was a safe place where I could challenge myself intellectually. And the plurality of Harvard students aren't wealthy legacies, they're striver upper middle class kids that worked their asses off in high school.

[smhinsey]

To be clear, this is on their blog, not "printed in the Paris fucking Review."

[kenjackson]

This author sounds like a poor fit for Harvard. Nothing wrong with it. But after two years should have really looked at transferring. Sure it's "Harvard", but you can still do quite well at other schools like Berkeley (where you get to stay a year on campus at best, and then you're off to fend for yourself).

The author admitted not being ambitious, and it really felt like he just took what was handed to him, rather than really seeking uut what would really click with him.

[javanix]

I don't think he was really complaining about the Harvard bubble - just commenting on it.

[RandomCrosser]

Let me fix that for you:

"And the plurality of Harvard students aren't wealthy legacies, they're extremely lucky middle class kids."

Need I remind you that there are a ridiculous amount of kids who take ridiculous courses for high schools (e.g. even college courses), get extremely high testing scores, and loads of extracurricular and get rejected on the basis that Harvard has a quota for each school and a quota for ethnicities.

Otherwise, Ivy Leagues' demographics would probably turn into the fair-and-balanced UC schools ...