[KC_Conspirator]

I'm serious as a heart attack. Sure, I still think their graduate schools are top shelf, but look at the garbage being pushed in this article? I believe that the undergraduate studies have been totally compromised and that it has gone downhill since the mid-80's when the old time professors retired only to be replaced by ideologues who never left campus when they first appeared as the SDS in the 60's.

[andy_card]

Sure, I still think their graduate schools are top shelf, but look at the garbage being pushed in this article?

Well, having read the book in question, I know that at least a portion of this article is highly misleading. But even admitting that a majority of the faculty and students are wacko leftists, Harvard College still provides one of the best undergraduate educations anywhere. Nowhere are you going to find a better qualified student body or faculty, and frankly, you're expected to disagree with your professors. A number of other schools generally provide equivalent academic environments, and a great number can provide equivalent educations to motivated students, but you're deluding yourself if you think Harvard isn't a top university.

That said, I'm not a graduate of the College, though I did get a couple of degrees from one of the graduate schools.