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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, if this incident leads to any decline in applications, I think it would be a decline in applications from URM students. Yale looks like a less than hospitable environment.[/quote]

Yawn.[/quote]

You know for whom Yale is a "less than hospitable place"? Asian kids. They've got quotas against them the same way Jewish students used to have back in the day. The average Asian kid at the Ivies has to be insanely more accomplished than any other group, including white kids, in order to win a place. As an Asian American parent (who is not a tiger mom and doesn't push her kids), I'm already planning on state school for my kid. Both for cost and because unless my kid turns out to be a genius, I know that neither I nor my husband will have the appetite to push them to the crazy lengths that would be needed to get them accepted at an Ivy. If we weren't Asian, then our kid would still have to work hard but not inhumanely hard. So yeah, if the environment at Yale feels so shitty to you, please feel free to leave and make room for others. [/quote]
You miss the point. This is not about admissions.
If you are a normal parent, not a tiger mom, I expect that your kid would have a measure of self-reliance in adapting and navigating the new-to-them college environment. Most kids do. 
The entitlement exhibited to the kids in the video is staggering. I wonder how much coddling, ahem, support, was promised to them and by who.[/quote]

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