what is Yale looking for?

[Anonymous]

FuGLIs

[Anonymous]

https://news.yale.edu/2020/05/26/new-podcast-series-yale-takes-listeners-inside-admissions-office

[Anonymous]

We are going there to ask what they want

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Anonymous wrote:Community oriented
Evidence for interdisciplinary curiosity/abundance of intellectual heft, drive & rigor (they are the “and” students)
Niche interests
Character (evidenced by some contrarian behavior/off the beaten path)
Best of my career LOR

This is it.
- independent college advisor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legacy, connected kids, recruited athletes, URM and FGLI, and kids from rural areas.

+1. And unicorns of any kind.

[Anonymous]

They like big butts and they cannot lie.

[Anonymous]

The only kids I know who got into Yale were either ROTC or athletes.


So that. Plus stats.

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Anonymous wrote:The only kids I know who got into Yale were either ROTC or athletes.


So that. Plus stats.

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Same with Princeton + legacies

My kids aren’t athletes or legacy abd had zero desire for ROTC

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The kids I know who went there had the kind of drive and interest that went "beyond." The stuff you really can't fake, because who would want to? (I'm talking the kind of stuff that made their high school lives far less normal and social, because they were so internally driven toward some obsession). FWIW, they were also legitimately good, nice, kids.

They do say that there are a handful of insufferable kids of big donors on campus, too, but that this isn't the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:The kids I know who went there had the kind of drive and interest that went "beyond." The stuff you really can't fake, because who would want to? (I'm talking the kind of stuff that made their high school lives far less normal and social, because they were so internally driven toward some obsession). FWIW, they were also legitimately good, nice, kids.

They do say that there are a handful of insufferable kids of big donors on campus, too, but that this isn't the norm.

I have a kid who just graduated from Yale this describes her, really from her earliest days. As I met many of her friends and college classmates over the last four years, it seems quite apt for all of them as well. She is who she is and we had very little to do with where she ended up.
FWIW my other kid is totally different, just graduated from a much more conventional four years in high school and headed off to a state school he’s super excited about.

[Anonymous]

I am from a rural area and Yale seems to be increasing its admits from there. Genuinely awesome kids too. Non athletes or URM. Probably some full pay though.

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Anonymous wrote:I am from a rural area and Yale seems to be increasing its admits from there. Genuinely awesome kids too. Non athletes or URM. Probably some full pay though.

Rural is the key there. It’s one of the big DEIs that MAGa conveniently forget about. They actually think they got in for their “soft skills”.

The only kids I know who got into Harvard and Yale were ROTC or from rural areas in states that don’t send that many applications to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Celebrity kids. Rural rich kids. Athletes.