Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

I have been involved in recruiting for investment banks and PE firms for 30+ years and the last sentence made me laugh out loud. Yale athletes are super desirable candidates and they usually excel professionally.

You clearly don’t know what you are talking about.

I don't know any true STEM kid who really wants Yale, despite all the money Yale is throwing at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Maybe you do not realize that a lot of homeless children reside in hotel rooms all across the USA. There are at least two hotels on New York Avenue, NE that house scores of homeless families with children. Are those kids not allowed to attend college, even Yale, because their parents could not afford proper housing for them.

How can you afford to live in a hotel but not rent an apartment?

The city pays the fee for homeless families to stay in these hotels. That's where a lot of the migrants were placed and you could see their children playing in the parking lot of the Days Inn.

This has long been the case in many places. Those crappy hotels don’t get filled with tourists. 25 years ago I stayed for a month at a red roof inn in Maryland (needed a short term rental that took dogs and they were offering a great long term rate) — about half the people there were clearly on vouchers for the homeless as transitional/emergency housing. Massachusetts also does it all the time because the state law guarantees housing for children so if the state contacts with a ton of hotel chains to provide stop gap housing for families when the shelters are full. Hotels give great rates to fill their older properties in under desirable areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

funny, it's the one most desired at our HS. it's seen as best QOL, but I agree it's stronger in humanities than stem.

I wonder if this varies by high school.

Yale is the most popular at our school, too, but that’s because at least at our school anyone who’s paying attention can see that the other four are effectively reserved for kids with hooks.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Maybe you do not realize that a lot of homeless children reside in hotel rooms all across the USA. There are at least two hotels on New York Avenue, NE that house scores of homeless families with children. Are those kids not allowed to attend college, even Yale, because their parents could not afford proper housing for them.

How can you afford to live in a hotel but not rent an apartment?

The city pays the fee for homeless families to stay in these hotels. That's where a lot of the migrants were placed and you could see their children playing in the parking lot of the Days Inn.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Maybe you do not realize that a lot of homeless children reside in hotel rooms all across the USA. There are at least two hotels on New York Avenue, NE that house scores of homeless families with children. Are those kids not allowed to attend college, even Yale, because their parents could not afford proper housing for them.

How can you afford to live in a hotel but not rent an apartment?

The city pays the fee for homeless families to stay in these hotels. That's where a lot of the migrants were placed and you could see their children playing in the parking lot of the Days Inn.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Sounds like you stopped paying attention about 10 years ago, Yale's strength has always been humanities/social sciences but they are pouring gobs of money into STEM with gorgeous new facilities, tons of research opportunities etc. STEM kids are doing just fine there.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Sounds like you stopped paying attention about 10 years ago, Yale's strength has always been humanities/social sciences but they are pouring gobs of money into STEM with gorgeous new facilities, tons of research opportunities etc. STEM kids are doing just fine there.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Thank you for this random PSA

Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Sounds like you stopped paying attention about 10 years ago, Yale's strength has always been humanities/social sciences but they are pouring gobs of money into STEM with gorgeous new facilities, tons of research opportunities etc. STEM kids are doing just fine there.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Former Yale football player here. Curious about the idea that Yale athletes outcomes are poor, where is that coming from? Certainly was not true for my cohort.

You are grounded in reality but you are responding to DCUM’s crazed anti-athlete poster, who is completely insane and also (not coincidentally) lives entirely in a fantasy world.

Anonymous wrote:If the Yale admissions office can fall for a Chinese BDSM dominatrix LARPing as a ranch girl from North Dakota, what other ridiculous application lies have they bought?

And why take this process seriously at all, when objective criteria are at the out window and everyone is telling absurd stories just to attend a Bucknell safety school in one of the worst urban dumps in America?

NP. Pure poetry. Chef’s kiss.

Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Former Yale football player here. Curious about the idea that Yale athletes outcomes are poor, where is that coming from? Certainly was not true for my cohort.

Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

funny, it's the one most desired at our HS. it's seen as best QOL, but I agree it's stronger in humanities than stem.

I wonder if this varies by high school.

Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Oh stop. They all have that issue.