Anonymous
Post 03/30/2025 09:54     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:Would like to understand Yale’s undergrad focus and campus life ? Is it enough to choose it over another ivy that seems better in the academic areas of study?

I think that’s a personal question that each kid will need to answer for themselves. But one thing to remember is something like 60% of students change their major from what they originally planned on, so you want to go to a school that will be a great fit for the student overall, not just based major.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2025 08:38     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Would like to understand Yale’s undergrad focus and campus life ? Is it enough to choose it over another ivy that seems better in the academic areas of study?
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2025 08:09     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe so many people are hot to spend 4 years in….New Haven.


Well, New Haven does have amazing pizza.


Accurate!
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2025 07:54     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe so many people are hot to spend 4 years in….New Haven.


Well, New Haven does have amazing pizza.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2025 07:43     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Hard to believe so many people are hot to spend 4 years in….New Haven.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 14:42     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are also many high stats that are interesting. They are trying to hide the low stats URMs and mix in low stats white kids. It's a really bad look that Trump will go after.


The only difference between a kid with top decile SAT (1390) and a kid with 1550-1600 is purely test taking skills OR a $3000 one on one test prep course only very few can afford.

Go ahead and make yourself feel better by assuming your snowflake is smarter and more deserving than the kid who “only” got a 1390




True.


No. It’s not. Many of those 1390s did lots of prep. Also- you can’t discount natural intelligence. Kids without prep that score 35/36 ACT and 5s all APs and had very high CogAT in elementary.


It isn’t necessarily the high cost tutor - it’s the high cost psychiatric evaluation to get extended time (often over multiple days). Know a few kids with it who just got into Yale, this yr and last.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 14:07     Subject: Re:Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:DS is turning Yale down so good luck to someone else. Great school.


Curious where they are headed and the decision criteria ?

My DC is considering Yale vs another top ivy
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 13:58     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are also many high stats that are interesting. They are trying to hide the low stats URMs and mix in low stats white kids. It's a really bad look that Trump will go after.


The only difference between a kid with top decile SAT (1390) and a kid with 1550-1600 is purely test taking skills OR a $3000 one on one test prep course only very few can afford.

Go ahead and make yourself feel better by assuming your snowflake is smarter and more deserving than the kid who “only” got a 1390




True.


No. It’s not. Many of those 1390s did lots of prep. Also- you can’t discount natural intelligence. Kids without prep that score 35/36 ACT and 5s all APs and had very high CogAT in elementary.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 13:53     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are also many high stats that are interesting. They are trying to hide the low stats URMs and mix in low stats white kids. It's a really bad look that Trump will go after.


The only difference between a kid with top decile SAT (1390) and a kid with 1550-1600 is purely test taking skills OR a $3000 one on one test prep course only very few can afford.

Go ahead and make yourself feel better by assuming your snowflake is smarter and more deserving than the kid who “only” got a 1390




There are excellent free resources for prep that mine used so don’t agree with $3000 comment. However I do a knowledge there are 1390’s working to support their families that don’t have that time.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 13:43     Subject: Re:Yale--Class of 2029
DS is turning Yale down so good luck to someone else. Great school.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 13:22     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are also many high stats that are interesting. They are trying to hide the low stats URMs and mix in low stats white kids. It's a really bad look that Trump will go after.


The only difference between a kid with top decile SAT (1390) and a kid with 1550-1600 is purely test taking skills OR a $3000 one on one test prep course only very few can afford.

Go ahead and make yourself feel better by assuming your snowflake is smarter and more deserving than the kid who “only” got a 1390




True.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 12:46     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Legacy status matters more than major. 12% of Yale students are legacies (white affirmative action).


My child is a legacy and she is not white. The classes from the 1990s have HS-aged kids now. And a huge number of us are not white and/or married people who are not white and so our kids are non-white legacies (or double, in my case). The idea that legacy status preserves white privilege is something that is being used to pull the rug out from under non-white legacies of this generation of applicants.

Anyway, yay for all of these new admits! Welcome!

+1
So true!
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 11:57     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:There are also many high stats that are interesting. They are trying to hide the low stats URMs and mix in low stats white kids. It's a really bad look that Trump will go after.


The only difference between a kid with top decile SAT (1390) and a kid with 1550-1600 is purely test taking skills OR a $3000 one on one test prep course only very few can afford.

Go ahead and make yourself feel better by assuming your snowflake is smarter and more deserving than the kid who “only” got a 1390


Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 11:49     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Legacy status matters more than major. 12% of Yale students are legacies (white affirmative action).


My child is a legacy and she is not white. The classes from the 1990s have HS-aged kids now. And a huge number of us are not white and/or married people who are not white and so our kids are non-white legacies (or double, in my case). The idea that legacy status preserves white privilege is something that is being used to pull the rug out from under non-white legacies of this generation of applicants.

Anyway, yay for all of these new admits! Welcome!


Thank you! I was at Yale in the 90s, and I am part of a group that would not have been allowed admission in earlier decades. I find it deeply ironic that now, just as legacy admits are finally more diverse and not just white Christian men, there are calls to end the practice.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2025 11:47     Subject: Yale--Class of 2029
still have no financial aid letter from yale.

hard to know how excited we should get