Anonymous wrote:I went to Yale. New Haven is a weird city and possibly unique in that it is an urban environment (not a college town) but the only forces with any political power are two large non profits that don’t pay taxes. The students and their families are the only ones with pressure to leverage the university which in turn is the only one with leverage to pressure the city. When Yale wanted a portion of the city totally knocked down and rebuilt, it got it. When Yale wanted a fancy new hotel to house interviews and such, it got it. If the police force needs more resources, the only way to likely to get it is if he students parents start putting pressure on the school.
The crime issue is not significant for undergrads but it’s more of a concern for grad students who mostly live off campus and are often walking by themselves to get to/from campus late at night.

I went there too and there has always been a weird dynamic between Yale and New Haven and also Yale and its unions.

But the city is so much safer now than back when I went. I would even say New Haven is rather charming now.

Personally I loved living in a city for college. But if anyone can't handle the politics of unions or living in a city, then Yale isn't the place for you.

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.

So many people don't understand what was going on in that clip Every residential college at Yale has a dean and a master. The master of each college is responsible for the social life of the college. Harvard has a somewhat similar "house" system. At Harvard, both members of a couple are interviewed for the job.

I don't know if it's changed or not, but Yale only screened and interviewed the master himself /herself. In this case, the master at the time was new and there was wide spread dissatisfaction in Silliman --the college where he was master--regarding his poor performance. His wife was some sort of researcher in Yale's early childhood research program; it's not a position in which you have much interaction with undergrads.

The wife sent out an email to Silliman students--this wasn't a Yale wide email --but an email about Silliman's planned Halloween social events from the master's office-- saying students should be able to wear what they wanted for Halloween, even if they upset others by what they were wearing. If a regular professor had expressed that opinion, there may or may not have been backlash.

But it was the master's WIFE who wrote the email and sent it to Sillimanders--that's what residents of Silliman are called. She's the one who is supposed to help plan social events which should emphasize diversity and inclusion. She'd basically done NOTHING and neither had her H to foster social life in the residential college since taking the job at the beginning of the year. This was the first or at least one of the first emails she'd sent out to college residents.

It's like Larry Summers, former president of Harvard. He expressed the opinion that females just aren't as good at math and science as men. Now, yes, people are entitled to free speech. But do you want a professor who thinks that as president of a co-ed university? NO.

And neither did Sillimanders, especially URMs, want a master's wife sending out an email saying that students in that particular college should feel free to provoke other residents by wearing outrageous Halloween costumes. The students didn't want someone who had these views running social events within the college. The internal email system for a residential college is not designed for people to express political views.

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!?

it's not the police, it's the union

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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.

Hey she saw a video ok? A video.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Yale ranked number one college in the United States.

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/

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Suck it Harvard!

Yale ranked number one college in the United States.

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/

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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.

. You sound like the person who incessantly says this on this blog. Get a life! Just because you put this on an anonymous blog will not change anyone's mind despite your repeated attempts to discount Yale and its reputation in STEM. BTW, I went to a different ivy. Another school you probably would want to crap on--lol... You sound like a Trump supporter screaming that he won the 2020 election. Just because you are screaming this nonsense every chance you get doesn't make it true.

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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.

No one that matters in the real world would ever bash these schools. Only anonymous trolls on this website would say such things. Everyone would include Yale among the most elite and uber prestigious universities in the world. Period. No relative rankings would change this perception. The same goes with Columbia. Silly season is upon us.

Not so sure about that. Reputations rise, and reputations fall.

. Indeed they do but over the course of generations, not within the span of a year or two. Yale has been a preeminent university in the US for the past 300+ years. Columbia for the past 250+ years... Basing a schools reputation built over the course of centuries on recent rankings is a silly exercise to sell magazines. It says more about the insecurities of the people who rely on them than anything about the schools themselves.

You can’t take anything on this listserve seriously. This is not the site for serious discussion among experts.
Comments that you are referring to just make me laugh because they tend to be bs and completely moronic

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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 :lol:

+1 :D

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”).

Yeah…MIT is really known for its humanities.

MIT's English and creative writing departments are really good. And, unlike Yale, Sloan's Business school is genuinely good.

Yale has been coasting for years. Extremely overrated school for undergrads.

Ok…what about the 100+ other humanities areas? Let’s be honest…MIT is not comparable to Yale (or really any top 10 schools) for depth and breadth of humanities.

I assume you know business is not a humanities area.

MIT is tops for social sciences in fields like economics, psychology, etc…

I went to MIT and I would never recommend anyone go there for the humanities

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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.

Lol you watched a video on YouTube taken six years ago of some undergraduates being immature (agreed) and write off an entire university? I mean hire who you want, but the career outcomes for Yale undergraduates suggest that your concerns are not widely shared. And while nobody would argue that they have been the strongest STEM school in their peer group, if you paid attention you know the university has poured a ton of money into those areas in recent years creating some pretty incredible opportunities for their undergraduates. Our friends’ kid who chose it over Caltech has been thrilled with his education and research opportunities.

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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.

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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.

No one that matters in the real world would ever bash these schools. Only anonymous trolls on this website would say such things. Everyone would include Yale among the most elite and uber prestigious universities in the world. Period. No relative rankings would change this perception. The same goes with Columbia. Silly season is upon us.

Not so sure about that. Reputations rise, and reputations fall.

. Indeed they do but over the course of generations, not within the span of a year or two. Yale has been a preeminent university in the US for the past 300+ years. Columbia for the past 250+ years... Basing a schools reputation built over the course of centuries on recent rankings is a silly exercise to sell magazines. It says more about the insecurities of the people who rely on them than anything about the schools themselves.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved Yale. Was more aware while off campus but spent plenty of post midnight days walking home alone or with others and never had any scares.[/quote]

Anybody else just sick of Yale alums, both on DCUM and in real life, gushing about how much they loooove Yale and how much they miss it!?!

It is nauseating!!! The rest of us don’t care to hear how great Yale is.[/quote]

Ahhh, who hurt you?

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Yale. Was more aware while off campus but spent plenty of post midnight days walking home alone or with others and never had any scares.

Anybody else just sick of Yale alums, both on DCUM and in real life, gushing about how much they loooove Yale and how much they miss it!?!

It is nauseating!!! The rest of us don’t care to hear how great Yale is.

You sound bitter.