I was going to say the same thing. Needs to make his academic experience "elite".
Is he a grad transfer or is he going to finish that major at his new school?
I would hope he wouldn’t do most of the degree at Harvard only to get another school’s name on the degree at the last minute.
I see what you're saying but it's not like he won't have the transcripts to show he went to Harvard. I also don't think that in the sciences that employers would get as hung up on the name on the degree. They'll dig deeper and look at transcripts.
Explosive athlete, wow. Doesn't play with great leverage though. I always try to find the HS recruiting profile for transfers, and his is super interesting. He's listed as a 6'1" or 6'2" DE/OLB who played at a Catholic school in Detroit and was a 4-year starter and 2x defensive player of the year. Now he's an interior DL who's listed at 6'5" and 295 lbs. Wonder what the scoop is. Any Harvard FB message boards, lol?!
U of MN is highly rated at this stuff.
His human biology is evolutionary, apparently!
Considering Harvard doesn't have merit scholarships (neither academic nor athletic) and he had to pay to go there, I would assume he went there to get a Harvard degree before he transferred out.
I believe they, and many of the Ivy League, provide defacto full-ride grants of financial aid for any household making less than $X thousand per year (not sure the number). So he still might've qualified to pay nothing out of pocket.
Except the difference being that Harvard does those grants for non athletes too.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the only way a financial-aid grant is allowed to be provided to athletes and not count as athletic scholarships (which are against DIII rules) is if those grants are also available to the entire student body and provided to non-athletes.
They say Harvard is the UMN of the NE!
I'd bet a lot of money he didn't have to pay anything to go to Harvard.
Well unless his family are well off the needs based scholarships at Harvard are close to effectively the same thing.
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Doesn’t look 6’5” to me.
True. Harvard pays little weight to a families income when selecting their students. Once an offer is accepted, then financials are reviewed for every student and aid is offered to make sure every student can pay the fees. Basically, if Harvard wants you, they make sure finances are not a factor.
Going to Harvard undergrad pays off for the connections alone.
I don't know if studies have been done, but I think the biggest plus of the Ivies (both private and public) is the post-graduate networking. Professors at those schools are likely a notch above, but the difference isn't light years. I did my grad work at the U in public affairs with a dash of political science tossed in and the profs I had, for the most part, were really quite good.
I think there's also the possibility of folks who go there are self selecting for ability, connections too.
