Is Yale losing its luster?

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Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t seem to have the cachet it once had.

Not according to the number of early action applications. This year was second highest number of applicants. But go on with your gut feeling, OP.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/10/yale-receives-7777-early-action-applications/

Number of applicants is a useless metric with how easy it is to apply now.

Right. Number of applications is largely a measure of name recognition, public ranking, and ease of application. The most recent surge of applications are from the least prepared students, that is, the test optional bunch.

My friend’s dd (white, UMC, no hook) is in that “test optional bunch.” She’s very excited about her EA acceptance to Yale last month.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard and Yale will always have luster. Thats not the question. The question is how many other schools are just as good, and the answer is many.

This. What’s changing is the notion of Harvard or bust.

No. EA applications are up yet again for 2022-23, as they were up for 2022, and the year before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t seem to have the cachet it once had.

Not according to the number of early action applications. This year was second highest number of applicants. But go on with your gut feeling, OP.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/10/yale-receives-7777-early-action-applications/

Number of applicants is a useless metric with how easy it is to apply now.

Okay, then why don’t you share the metric that tells you Yale is losing their cachet. I’m all ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t seem to have the cachet it once had.

Not according to the number of early action applications. This year was second highest number of applicants. But go on with your gut feeling, OP.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/10/yale-receives-7777-early-action-applications/

Number of applicants is a useless metric with how easy it is to apply now.

Okay, then why don’t you share the metric that tells you Yale is losing their cachet. I’m all ears.

I am not the PP. I am curious. Aside from Yale law school, is there any other particular academic program that is distinguished from other top schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t seem to have the cachet it once had.

Not according to the number of early action applications. This year was second highest number of applicants. But go on with your gut feeling, OP.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/10/yale-receives-7777-early-action-applications/

Number of applicants is a useless metric with how easy it is to apply now.

Okay, then why don’t you share the metric that tells you Yale is losing their cachet. I’m all ears.

I am not the PP. I am curious. Aside from Yale law school, is there any other particular academic program that is distinguished from other top schools?

Many. Drama for starters.

[Anonymous]

To be fair, New Haven isn't exactly the best college town to live in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, New Haven isn't exactly the best college town to live in.

The area surrounding Yale is a blighted neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, New Haven isn't exactly the best college town to live in.

Actually it’s become a pretty great place in recent years, definitely having a renaissance with a big boost in the arts specifically. Lots of great restaurants but not as expensive as NYC. This is not the new haven of the 80s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, New Haven isn't exactly the best college town to live in.

Actually it’s become a pretty great place in recent years, definitely having a renaissance with a big boost in the arts specifically. Lots of great restaurants but not as expensive as NYC. This is not the new haven of the 80s.

Better but not that much better. Lots of run down and even abandoned homes. Visited last year.

[Anonymous]

If all you are looking for is an Ivy name to impress, there are Ivies in much nicer neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, New Haven isn't exactly the best college town to live in.

The area surrounding Yale is a blighted neighborhood.

You need to get out more if you call that blighted. You are in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

It’s not losing its luster but I think paradoxically for a lot of us with high stats kids it’s become so impossible to get into that it and most of the Ivies are not even part of the conversation like they were when I was a teen (and I went to an Ivy if never get into today). My kid realizes ED is the best chance of getting into a reach so the group of schools without ED are off the table. And he doesn’t want to spend his ED chip on any other Ivy so it’s not do much lack of luster but there’s a group of kids who have just kind of moved on from that subset of schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, New Haven isn't exactly the best college town to live in.

The area surrounding Yale is a blighted neighborhood.

You need to get out more if you call that blighted. You are in a bubble.

Worst Ivy neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t seem to have the cachet it once had.

Not according to the number of early action applications. This year was second highest number of applicants. But go on with your gut feeling, OP.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/10/yale-receives-7777-early-action-applications/

Number of applicants is a useless metric with how easy it is to apply now.

Okay, then why don’t you share the metric that tells you Yale is losing their cachet. I’m all ears.

I am not the PP. I am curious. Aside from Yale law school, is there any other particular academic program that is distinguished from other top schools?

I think it’s fair to acknowledge that Yale really built its reputation in the first few hundred years for its strength in humanities and to some degree social sciences. Of course it has had to pivot and change as the world changes and a classics degree it doesn’t mean what it meant 100 years ago. They are however still very strong in liberal arts in general, are investing heavily in STEM, have a newly minted school of global affairs that has an undergraduate degree associated with it, the med school is of course highly regarded. I think the business school is not necessarily its strength. But I mean what are you really looking for him in this question? It seems to do a lot of things very well, offers generous financial aid, and is a great networking starting point.

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https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/05/07/analysis-new-haven-is-experiencing-a-rise-in-homicides-violent-crime-officials-residents-split-on-solutions/