What happened at Yale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG, how desperate for a North Dakotan can you get?

Dammit! Her saucy actions drew to much attention! Now they're gonna patch this hack!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Maybe you do not realize that a lot of homeless children reside in hotel rooms all across the USA. There are at least two hotels on New York Avenue, NE that house scores of homeless families with children. Are those kids not allowed to attend college, even Yale, because their parents could not afford proper housing for them.

How can you afford to live in a hotel but not rent an apartment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a STEM Ph.D. friend from grad school who works at a rural national lab whose child is attending Harvard. 4.0/1570. Not "dropping standard so low," in fact not dropping at all. There are smart folks who got stuck in rural states because they like their research/teaching jobs. It's so hard to get tenure-track positions that many of them don't mind moving to South Dakota and the likes to live their faculty dreams. Their offsprings often times are as good as their parents and don't need crutches.

4.0/1570 is table stakes, and a far cry from an admission without a hook, of which being rural is one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would she turn around and try to apply to another college?

After a name change, why not?

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t someone get kicked out of HYP recently for faking that they were a foster kid? I think it was a woman.

Penn. It was a very complicated story though, and she was quite sympathetic in the end.

namely, she actually was a foster kid.

[Anonymous]

Sorry to go off point, but I can’t believe how poorly that Yale article was written. Geesh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Maybe you do not realize that a lot of homeless children reside in hotel rooms all across the USA. There are at least two hotels on New York Avenue, NE that house scores of homeless families with children. Are those kids not allowed to attend college, even Yale, because their parents could not afford proper housing for them.

How can you afford to live in a hotel but not rent an apartment?

First, last, and a security deposit is a lot of cash to put together if someone lives hand to mouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Goes to show what a sham the whole admission process is.

This is the admissions rep for the Dakotas:
https://nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/prospective-students/undergraduate-admissions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t someone get kicked out of HYP recently for faking that they were a foster kid? I think it was a woman.

Penn. It was a very complicated story though, and she was quite sympathetic in the end.

namely, she actually was a foster kid.

Penn decided to focus on the fact that she technically was not first-gen, had spent most of her youth in a wealthy household and had attended private school. As if the serious abuse that resulted in her placement in foster care was irrelevant! She had no guidance from family and had no resources at the time of application. Penn sucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Goes to show what a sham the whole admission process is.

This is the admissions rep for the Dakotas:
https://nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/prospective-students/undergraduate-admissions

They kicked her out. Same has happened to others before at Yale and many other universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Goes to show what a sham the whole admission process is.

This is the admissions rep for the Dakotas:
https://nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/prospective-students/undergraduate-admissions

They kicked her out. Same has happened to others before at Yale and many other universities.

What does that have to do with the admissions rep?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Goes to show what a sham the whole admission process is.

This is the admissions rep for the Dakotas:
https://nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/prospective-students/undergraduate-admissions

They kicked her out. Same has happened to others before at Yale and many other universities.

What does that have to do with the admissions rep?

I guess because they were the ones duped and lobbying for the student in committee?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:according to my kid, the sexual stuff was all talk. but there was a lot of weird day to day, non-sexual behavior that was "off".

like what?

I heard she routinely ended sentences with prepositions.

[Anonymous]

Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone send this to the YCBK or CAP podcasts to ask them to discuss?