Universities Really Are Messed Up (says Yale

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most overrepresented student at Yale is the private school graduate. By far. That will NEVER change.

64% of matriculants came from public high schools.
36% of matriculants came from independent day, boarding, and religious schools.

when you say "by far" what does that mean?

I just looked up Swarthmore they have almost exactly the same breakdown 36 percent independent/religious…

MIT is similar: 67% public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."

So, they have identified the things that make it messed up and the want to recommend doing more of those? Ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."

So, they have identified the things that make it messed up and the want to recommend doing more of those? Ok.

Expanding financial aid is going to make it more messed up? Reducing admissions preferences is going to make it more messed up?

[Anonymous]

Geniuses at Yale finally figured it out. LMFAO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."

So, they have identified the things that make it messed up and the want to recommend doing more of those? Ok.

you have issues with these things?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geniuses at Yale finally figured it out. LMFAO

Geniuses at Yale have figured out how to proactively stay out of Trump's crosshairs.

I dont know why they've been spared, but they've had very little impact by the cuts at other universities and they'd be smart to get at least some of that out to students or the community. and release reports about guarding free speech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geniuses at Yale finally figured it out. LMFAO

Geniuses at Yale have figured out how to proactively stay out of Trump's crosshairs.

I dont know why they've been spared, but they've had very little impact by the cuts at other universities and they'd be smart to get at least some of that out to students or the community. and release reports about guarding free speech

They have not been entirely spared. None of us have been spared in this entire country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most overrepresented student at Yale is the private school graduate. By far. That will NEVER change.

I would not be so sure.

“When selective admissions seem so inexplicable — or, worse, tilted in ways that benefit the already advantaged — it should come as no surprise that many Americans do not trust the process,” the committee wrote.

I just don’t see how you can ever have an explicable process for undergraduate admissions and an admissions rate under 5%. 17 year olds are just not that fully formed yet. And if they were, college would be pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geniuses at Yale finally figured it out. LMFAO

Geniuses at Yale have figured out how to proactively stay out of Trump's crosshairs.

I dont know why they've been spared, but they've had very little impact by the cuts at other universities and they'd be smart to get at least some of that out to students or the community. and release reports about guarding free speech

They have not been entirely spared. None of us have been spared in this entire country.

Who had "let's see what we can do to destroy American science" on their bingo card for The 250th birthday of this country.

In any case. Maybe some changes to financial aid and admissions and other issues will come about due to this report.

[Anonymous]

Focusing on the private school % is a red herring. Those kids would just go to a top affluent public school if all privates were ordered to shut down. And I am confident that the international students are almost entirely privately educated in their respective home countries, which further distorts the picture. Because if you look at the other end, at the actual private schools, your typical high performing day school sends fewer kids to Ivies than 25 years ago, even if SATs and other academic metrics remain high. All the privates complain now how much harder it is to get kids into elite colleges.

I wish Yale best of luck. This report is a bit courageous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Focusing on the private school % is a red herring. Those kids would just go to a top affluent public school if all privates were ordered to shut down. And I am confident that the international students are almost entirely privately educated in their respective home countries, which further distorts the picture. Because if you look at the other end, at the actual private schools, your typical high performing day school sends fewer kids to Ivies than 25 years ago, even if SATs and other academic metrics remain high. All the privates complain now how much harder it is to get kids into elite colleges.

I wish Yale best of luck. This report is a bit courageous.

Yes. I have not read the actual report. I just read the article about the report. But I don't know that it just focuses on private schools. It describes being tilted towards the advantaged which would include wealthy public schools that function like private schools in some ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale committee concludes that colleges and universities have completely lost the plot:

“High costs, murky admissions practices, uneven academic standards and fears about free speech on campuses, the committee said, are among the reasons for widening discontent over higher education’s worthiness.

The findings reflect misgivings that Americans have described across years of polling and interviews. But the report, from a 10-professor panel at one of the nation’s most renowned universities, amounts to a damning depiction of academia’s role in cultivating the political and cultural forces that are reshaping higher education’s place in American life.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/yale-report-colleges-unversities-trust.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA._ebw.-PVgolGZ4r5r&smid=url-share

Your landscaper could have told you this.

Any FOX viewer could have told you this.

Hopefully they’re not patting themselves on the back about these conclusions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale committee concludes that colleges and universities have completely lost the plot:

“High costs, murky admissions practices, uneven academic standards and fears about free speech on campuses, the committee said, are among the reasons for widening discontent over higher education’s worthiness.

The findings reflect misgivings that Americans have described across years of polling and interviews. But the report, from a 10-professor panel at one of the nation’s most renowned universities, amounts to a damning depiction of academia’s role in cultivating the political and cultural forces that are reshaping higher education’s place in American life.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/yale-report-colleges-unversities-trust.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA._ebw.-PVgolGZ4r5r&smid=url-share

Your landscaper could have told you this.

Any FOX viewer could have told you this.

Hopefully they’re not patting themselves on the back about these conclusions.

You don't have to be either one of those things to see the issues.

What are the solutions? Seems like the fox viewers decided that destroying funding for scientific research was the solution and instead spending it on bombing a country to result in sky high energy prices that suck lots and lots and lots of money out of all of our wallets . Great job Fox viewers.

[Anonymous]

None of my landscapers speak or read English

[Anonymous]

Congrats to the new Yale President. She does not appear to be the cookie cutter far left elitist liberal. The IVY plus has been dominated at the leadership and faculty level by liberals for decades. Also report mentions doing away with preferences for faculty kids.