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Great career stepping stone but you'll have to work hard - Graduate Student Harvard University Employee Review

3.0
Oct 29, 2008
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Pros

The name opens all kinds of opportunities once you look for a job. It helps with your next salary also. Having Harvard on my resume has been the key to getting many job interviews and was directly responsible for getting me 10%-20% more pay in one of my job offers. People tend to be very impressed with the name.

Cons

It is very competitive and graduate students get very little respect. Professors don't have much respect for a student's time -- they will call meetings only when it suits them and will be consistently late. They don't give much positive feedback and they don't spend much time thinking about their students' projects. The good part is that it encourages independence.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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