Beware of Yale

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Yale sounds like a truly horrific place to me. Please don’t let your kids apply! The acceptance rate is too low already

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I wish nonsense like this would turn people away. Yale is my kid’s dream school!

To be honest, crime concerns and lack of STEM strength have turned people and away and pushed Yale to the bottom of HYPSM, and I’ve seen more than a few posters just using HPSM to refer to the best schools (HPSM are equally strong in humanities and STEM and have “the best of both worlds”).

Reality: no one says HPSM except trolls trying to boost lower Ivies.

I didn’t go to any of these schools, but I’m sick of the Yale, Columbia and UChicago bashing. It’s so stupid.

It should just be HS at this point anyway. They are great in every program across STEM, the humanities, and social sciences in a way the others just are not.
Yale still belongs with that 2nd group of YPM though. Remember that HYP is actually the OG group.

For undergrad, I’d pick Yale and Princeton any day over Harvard regardless of major. Have heard from enough Harvard College alums how much they have hated it. Can’t speak about Stanford.

I think just Princeton. Ever since I saw that video of a mob of Yale students attacking a professor for having the temerity to suggest students are responsible for their own Halloween costumes, I realized that Yale is basically Oberlin these days. Plus they don't have meaningful engineering or computer science programs. Yale really has no business sitting on top of the rankings. It's not 1955 anymore. They haven't kept up with undergrad STEM programs. And their students tend to be "social justice" warriors. I'd be disinclined to hire a recent Yale grad.

If you think this social justice thing is just happening at Yale, you are completely delusional. It is happening at all Ivy campuses, and I say that as the parent of two recent Penn and Cornell grads.

ALSO, I didn’t realise this but Yale does have a very strong conservative scene going on as well. I learned this from the kid of close friends who is a recent grad and was active with the Yale Political Union.

It just shows you that most people don’t know what the F they are talking about. They talk about schools they know nothing about as if they do.

I am a recent Princeton alum, and completely agree with the bolded statement. The social justice thing is happening across all the Ivies and I'd even say across all top schools on the East Coast. It is certainly happening at Princeton as well.

I just attended an NYC alumni event over the weekend and some of the older alums were complaining about how woke Princeton is and how they can't recognize it and would stop donating.

I loved Princeton, and would wholeheartedly recommend it but make no mistake - it's not any less social justice-y than Yale is.

Also, the fact that a Harvard and Princeton grad bothered posting on here to dispel some of the nonsense talked about Yale, one of our key rival schools, should alarm you about the level of nonsense written about certain schools by people who have no direct knowledge.

What this is telling me is that all you Ivy Leaguers just support each other.

The Ivy League is overrated and should be dismantled. My honest opinion.

This kind of mindless college bashing is part of the treasonous Russian-Trumpie effort to weaken us by tearing down and terrorizing all kinds of institutions, ranging from beer brands to discount stores to colleges.

You’re either a paid participant in the effort to put the world under the boot of Xi and Putin or their unwitting puppet.

My honest opinion.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/yale-police-first-students-beware-114317974.html

What kind of police force distributes flyers with the Grim Reaper on it!?

Trying to scare folks off from applying to Yale is not going to increase your kids chances.

To repeat (which is clear in the article if anyone would bother to read): the flyers were distributed by the police Union as a negotiation ploy. Not the police force

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Anonymous wrote:In 12 visits to campus, not once has my car been broken into or have I have been held up at gunpoint...

Wow, 12 visits, some undoubtedly with your car in valet parking. Try parking overnight at the train station or a mile down Whitney Avenue. Admittedly, it has been a while, but I'm not interested in collecting more data.

DP: You’re making the point that parking your car overnight OFF campus — and WAY off campus at that, is somehow a meaningful assessment of how safe it is to be a student within the boundaries of the campus?

Most students don’t have cars. Most students won’t be parking overnight at the train station. Few students will be “a mile down (did you mean UP?) Whitney Avenue, and the vast majority of them will not be parking cars that they don’t have anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Primary reason why DS chose P over Y. Car broken into on BDD did NOT make for a good visit.

In four years in New Haven, they took three car radios (plus smashed window) and held me up at gunpoint.

Why did you have a car? Part of the point of Yale is that you don't need one.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you have a car? Part of the point of Yale is that you don't need one.

I was a professor. I was robbed at gunpoint across the street from the president's mansion on campus. Now think of more reasons why this was my fault.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you have a car? Part of the point of Yale is that you don't need one.

I was a professor. I was robbed at gunpoint across the street from the president's mansion on campus. Now think of more reasons why this was my fault.

You sound to be the type to be flashy and seek attention. I am not surprised you enticed someone to rob you!

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you have a car? Part of the point of Yale is that you don't need one.

I was a professor. I was robbed at gunpoint across the street from the president's mansion on campus. Now think of more reasons why this was my fault.

Again, when was this?

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you have a car? Part of the point of Yale is that you don't need one.

I was a professor. I was robbed at gunpoint across the street from the president's mansion on campus. Now think of more reasons why this was my fault.

This makes no sense. I know exactly which part of campus you are talking about and this part always has a strong campus police presence exactly because that’s where the president’s mansion is.

Nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:this part always has a strong campus police presence exactly because that’s where the president’s mansion is.

I doubt the president ever slept in that mansion; I never saw him. They had a Winchester gun factory and projects within walking distance! Now tell David Gelertner how safe mail is.

I was robbed on Hillhouse Avenue after a Chevy Chase student was killed there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Christian_Prince

Another was killed later in the 1990's.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/nyregion/yale-senior-is-found-stabbed-to-death-off-campus-in-new-haven.html

A Hillhouse high school student was killed this year.
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/16-year-old-shot-and-killed-in-new-haven/

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Anonymous wrote:My father was manager of a large warehouse near Chicago. About half the workers were from Cuba. My father was always looking to promote from within. When he heard someone mention that this one Cuban worker had gone to Yale, he arranged to have a chat to see if the fellow was interested in moving up. When asked if it was true he had gone to Yale, the guy admitted he had, but he said it common for the Cuban police to put people in “Yale” even if they didn’t do anything wrong.

Beware of Yale indeed!

I read this joke in Reader's Digest 20 years ago. What's your name? Yim Yohnson.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Yale sounds like a truly horrific place to me. Please don’t let your kids apply! The acceptance rate is too low already

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I wish nonsense like this would turn people away. Yale is my kid’s dream school!

To be honest, crime concerns and lack of STEM strength have turned people and away and pushed Yale to the bottom of HYPSM, and I’ve seen more than a few posters just using HPSM to refer to the best schools (HPSM are equally strong in humanities and STEM and have “the best of both worlds”).

Reality: no one says HPSM except trolls trying to boost lower Ivies.

I didn’t go to any of these schools, but I’m sick of the Yale, Columbia and UChicago bashing. It’s so stupid.

It should just be HS at this point anyway. They are great in every program across STEM, the humanities, and social sciences in a way the others just are not.
Yale still belongs with that 2nd group of YPM though. Remember that HYP is actually the OG group.

For undergrad, I’d pick Yale and Princeton any day over Harvard regardless of major. Have heard from enough Harvard College alums how much they have hated it. Can’t speak about Stanford.

I think just Princeton. Ever since I saw that video of a mob of Yale students attacking a professor for having the temerity to suggest students are responsible for their own Halloween costumes, I realized that Yale is basically Oberlin these days. Plus they don't have meaningful engineering or computer science programs. Yale really has no business sitting on top of the rankings. It's not 1955 anymore. They haven't kept up with undergrad STEM programs. And their students tend to be "social justice" warriors. I'd be disinclined to hire a recent Yale grad.

If you think this social justice thing is just happening at Yale, you are completely delusional. It is happening at all Ivy campuses, and I say that as the parent of two recent Penn and Cornell grads.

ALSO, I didn’t realise this but Yale does have a very strong conservative scene going on as well. I learned this from the kid of close friends who is a recent grad and was active with the Yale Political Union.

It just shows you that most people don’t know what the F they are talking about. They talk about schools they know nothing about as if they do.

I am a recent Princeton alum, and completely agree with the bolded statement. The social justice thing is happening across all the Ivies and I'd even say across all top schools on the East Coast. It is certainly happening at Princeton as well.

I just attended an NYC alumni event over the weekend and some of the older alums were complaining about how woke Princeton is and how they can't recognize it and would stop donating.

I loved Princeton, and would wholeheartedly recommend it but make no mistake - it's not any less social justice-y than Yale is.

Also, the fact that a Harvard and Princeton grad bothered posting on here to dispel some of the nonsense talked about Yale, one of our key rival schools, should alarm you about the level of nonsense written about certain schools by people who have no direct knowledge.

What this is telling me is that all you Ivy Leaguers just support each other.

The Ivy League is overrated and should be dismantled. My honest opinion.

This kind of mindless college bashing is part of the treasonous Russian-Trumpie effort to weaken us by tearing down and terrorizing all kinds of institutions, ranging from beer brands to discount stores to colleges.

You’re either a paid participant in the effort to put the world under the boot of Xi and Putin or their unwitting puppet.

My honest opinion.

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[Anonymous]

Regardless of Readers Digest, this really happened. Chrysler parts warehouse. It was about 40 yrs ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Yale sounds like a truly horrific place to me. Please don’t let your kids apply! The acceptance rate is too low already

+1

I wish nonsense like this would turn people away. Yale is my kid’s dream school!

To be honest, crime concerns and lack of STEM strength have turned people and away and pushed Yale to the bottom of HYPSM, and I’ve seen more than a few posters just using HPSM to refer to the best schools (HPSM are equally strong in humanities and STEM and have “the best of both worlds”).

Reality: no one says HPSM except trolls trying to boost lower Ivies.

I didn’t go to any of these schools, but I’m sick of the Yale, Columbia and UChicago bashing. It’s so stupid.

It should just be HS at this point anyway. They are great in every program across STEM, the humanities, and social sciences in a way the others just are not.
Yale still belongs with that 2nd group of YPM though. Remember that HYP is actually the OG group.

For undergrad, I’d pick Yale and Princeton any day over Harvard regardless of major. Have heard from enough Harvard College alums how much they have hated it. Can’t speak about Stanford.

I think just Princeton. Ever since I saw that video of a mob of Yale students attacking a professor for having the temerity to suggest students are responsible for their own Halloween costumes, I realized that Yale is basically Oberlin these days. Plus they don't have meaningful engineering or computer science programs. Yale really has no business sitting on top of the rankings. It's not 1955 anymore. They haven't kept up with undergrad STEM programs. And their students tend to be "social justice" warriors. I'd be disinclined to hire a recent Yale grad.

If you think this social justice thing is just happening at Yale, you are completely delusional. It is happening at all Ivy campuses, and I say that as the parent of two recent Penn and Cornell grads.

ALSO, I didn’t realise this but Yale does have a very strong conservative scene going on as well. I learned this from the kid of close friends who is a recent grad and was active with the Yale Political Union.

It just shows you that most people don’t know what the F they are talking about. They talk about schools they know nothing about as if they do.

I am a recent Princeton alum, and completely agree with the bolded statement. The social justice thing is happening across all the Ivies and I'd even say across all top schools on the East Coast. It is certainly happening at Princeton as well.

I just attended an NYC alumni event over the weekend and some of the older alums were complaining about how woke Princeton is and how they can't recognize it and would stop donating.

I loved Princeton, and would wholeheartedly recommend it but make no mistake - it's not any less social justice-y than Yale is.

Also, the fact that a Harvard and Princeton grad bothered posting on here to dispel some of the nonsense talked about Yale, one of our key rival schools, should alarm you about the level of nonsense written about certain schools by people who have no direct knowledge.

What this is telling me is that all you Ivy Leaguers just support each other.

The Ivy League is overrated and should be dismantled. My honest opinion.

This kind of mindless college bashing is part of the treasonous Russian-Trumpie effort to weaken us by tearing down and terrorizing all kinds of institutions, ranging from beer brands to discount stores to colleges.

You’re either a paid participant in the effort to put the world under the boot of Xi and Putin or their unwitting puppet.

My honest opinion.

You are completely deranged.

My honest opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this part always has a strong campus police presence exactly because that’s where the president’s mansion is.

I doubt the president ever slept in that mansion; I never saw him. They had a Winchester gun factory and projects within walking distance! Now tell David Gelertner how safe mail is.

I was robbed on Hillhouse Avenue after a Chevy Chase student was killed there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Christian_Prince

Another was killed later in the 1990's.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/nyregion/yale-senior-is-found-stabbed-to-death-off-campus-in-new-haven.html

A Hillhouse high school student was killed this year.
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/16-year-old-shot-and-killed-in-new-haven/

The first 2 were in the 90s, the third was nowhere near campus.

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It’s an urban school with urban crime. I went there for undergrad and law school, early 2000s. Crime was an issue then too. Always has been, always will be. Still a wonderful school.