I have a child playing lacrosse at Harvard and the above comments are nonsense. Overall, the school is left of center but no more so than at the ACC school one of my other children attends. If you are looking for left of center/extreme left of center politics/activism you can find it at both schools but it does not permeate everyday life.
I will add that the athletes (my 2 children that play college sports would agree) tend to spend most of their time with other athletes and the athletes seem to be politically centrist if political at all. Between sleeping, eating, going to class, studying and the sports commitment, there is not time for anything else. My child at Harvard knows that the faculty and many of the NARPs are left leaning but again, it is not something that comes up. I am sure the rhetoric will intensify around the mid term elections, it did when I was in college.
