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College Apps/College Visits/Harvard 2-20-25.md

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+- Campus
+    - overall very nice, lots of brick buildings
+    - Mostly in one place in Boston, feels like a cohesive campus
+    - Pretty big
+    - Lots of food and store options around campus
+    - Very cold; lots of snow
+    - Plenty of dorm rooms, 98% of students live on campus all 4 years
+    - Right next to Boston downtown, but doesn’t feel right in the city
+    - can eat in dining halls, but there are good restaurants nearby
+- House System
+    - Every student is sorted into one of 12 houses March of freshmen year
+    - Each house lives in their own building, and different houses have different things in buildings (ceramics studio and rock climbing wall)
+    - can choose up to 8 people to block with and and group is all put into one house together
+    - Sorting is mostly just random
+    - All freshmen stay in same place and eat in same hall until they are sorted
+    - Can still use amenities from other houses
+- Info session focused a lot on the network and support at Harvard
+    - Every student gets three advisors to help them
+- Able to take classes at [[MIT 2-21-25|MIT]]
+    - Very close, ~20-30min walk
+- Massive alumni network