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RunnerRunner wrote:Hey OP, looks like you are taking some serious fire haha, but I'll try to respond. I think what you may be referring to are some quality of life improvements Harvard made (relatively) recently for the student body. Some people feel that when they enacted grade reform they were making a move to reduce the "cutthroat competition" among students. I have a friend there who says she thinks quality of life is pretty solid, and much less stressful than life there is depicted in things like "1L" by Scott Turow (pre-reform). I doubt they will overtake Yale, but perhaps that is where you got the "on the rise" impression.

Bildungsroman wrote:

RunnerRunner wrote:Hey OP, looks like you are taking some serious fire haha, but I'll try to respond. I think what you may be referring to are some quality of life improvements Harvard made (relatively) recently for the student body. Some people feel that when they enacted grade reform they were making a move to reduce the "cutthroat competition" among students. I have a friend there who says she thinks quality of life is pretty solid, and much less stressful than life there is depicted in things like "1L" by Scott Turow (pre-reform). I doubt they will overtake Yale, but perhaps that is where you got the "on the rise" impression.

None of that really relates to something being on the rise.

ballcaps wrote:who has said this?

MistakenGenius wrote:

Bildungsroman wrote:

RunnerRunner wrote:Hey OP, looks like you are taking some serious fire haha, but I'll try to respond. I think what you may be referring to are some quality of life improvements Harvard made (relatively) recently for the student body. Some people feel that when they enacted grade reform they were making a move to reduce the "cutthroat competition" among students. I have a friend there who says she thinks quality of life is pretty solid, and much less stressful than life there is depicted in things like "1L" by Scott Turow (pre-reform). I doubt they will overtake Yale, but perhaps that is where you got the "on the rise" impression.

None of that really relates to something being on the rise.

Have to agree. Sure, it's great Harvard is trying to better their students' quality of life. And I would say the grade reform was one of the best moves they've made, but it doesn't translate to their entire school being "on the rise." Making improvements doesn't count as being on the rise. Especially when these improvements have no bearing on the actual education received there. Every single school works to make improvements every year. That doesn't mean every school is on the rise.

MistakenGenius wrote:

Mal Reynolds wrote:Harvard has terrible people who attend the school.

No dog in this fight, but says the fucking Chicago student. You will never meet a set of more self-important jackasses with clear inferiority complexes than that school.

But OP, I second that. I've never heard anyone say Harvard is "on the rise." It's #2 and pretty clearly a great school (if a bit oversized). Where is there for it to go?

RunnerRunner wrote:

MistakenGenius wrote:

Bildungsroman wrote:

RunnerRunner wrote:Hey OP, looks like you are taking some serious fire haha, but I'll try to respond. I think what you may be referring to are some quality of life improvements Harvard made (relatively) recently for the student body. Some people feel that when they enacted grade reform they were making a move to reduce the "cutthroat competition" among students. I have a friend there who says she thinks quality of life is pretty solid, and much less stressful than life there is depicted in things like "1L" by Scott Turow (pre-reform). I doubt they will overtake Yale, but perhaps that is where you got the "on the rise" impression.

None of that really relates to something being on the rise.

Have to agree. Sure, it's great Harvard is trying to better their students' quality of life. And I would say the grade reform was one of the best moves they've made, but it doesn't translate to their entire school being "on the rise." Making improvements doesn't count as being on the rise. Especially when these improvements have no bearing on the actual education received there. Every single school works to make improvements every year. That doesn't mean every school is on the rise.

That's a fair point. To be honest I just hate to see people receive the type of backlash OP was receiving for asking questions on here, and thought someone should try to treat it like a real question.

hdunlop wrote:TBF guys he said he saw this elsewhere on the internet too, and a search for "Harvard law on the rise" determines that the Boston Globe's Drake Bennett said it.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas ... ?page=full

Mike