<p>wait, so is the story they tell you at the info session a complete lie?
I remember the girl saying that when she got her acceptance letter it said "congratulations on your acceptance to Timothy Dwight College" and that she was like "<strong><em>, I applied to yale, not this Timothy Dwight </em></strong>" (ok, she didnt actually say *** or **** at the info session, but you know what I mean)</p>
<p>so was that a complete lie?</p>
<p>She was talking about the notification letter about housing, and it was supposed to be a funny story. My admissions officer (a Davenport '03 graduate) told the story about how he was a little taken aback when he opened up his notification. "What? Davenport College? I got into Yale - what is this?" sort of thing...</p>
<p>I don't think Yale has a policy against assigning kids from the same home town to the same college; it's happened several times in recent years to kids from my town. On the other hand, there's this true story: the summer before freshman year (2002), one of the girls originally assigned to my daughter's suite asked to be reassigned to another college when she realized a h.s. classmate whom she didn't like was put in the same college. Her replacement was a girl who had asked NOT to be put in her older brother's college but mistakenly was. Yale just swapped their two room placements.</p>
<p>Also you can change colleges after your freshman year if you don't like the one you're in. It doesn't seem to happen a lot but when it does, it usually has to do with the student having formed strong friendships with a group from a college other than their own.</p>
<p>Finally, unless you are a legacy or have an older sib who went to Yale, there is no point wasting your time thinking about what college you want to be in because you have no control over it.</p>
<p>my friend today told me a story about one year the computer put 12 freshman guys named David in one college, so they just spread them out over all the colleges.</p>
<p>NICE. I heard this year there's one guy's suite with three guys with the same name in it, but that could just be a rumor... :-D</p>
<p>And Yale definitely doesn't have a policy about assigning kids from the same hometown to the same college - or at least, not across different years; one of the sophomores in my college (DPort Pride!) and I went to the same high school... this wouldn't be too surprising if our school sent a lot of students to yale, but since we're two of only three admits from our school within the past few years, I was a little surprised.</p>
<p>But whatever. The college system is great, so none of this should really matter too much :-P</p>