[1] "Harvard is the hardest school to get into."
[2] "Harvard is the hardest school to get in."
[1] is undeniably grammatically correct. What about [2]?
Native speakers say so too. Search for "hardest school to get in" in Google. There are a few results.
Last edited by Bennevis; 18-Sep-2011 at 23:25.
But thank you for giving your thread a meaningful, useful title!
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.