<p>I am not sexist or racist -- in fact, I am girl, and I am a member of a minority. It's just a fact that since Yale began admitting minorities and women far later than they were admitting white men, the endowment that had been building up for years for colleges like Davenport and JE is simply not there for Trumbullians. This makes sense if you think about it -- it's like saying that you have more money than your little brother because you have been working for a longer time. I did not make up this reason, it came up in a conversation with one of my friends in Trumbull.</p>
<p>"I did not make up this reason, it came up in a conversation with one of my friends in Trumbull."</p>
<p>Your friend is mistaken. I was a Yale student when the first class of women undergraduates arrived, and they were assigned to all twelve colleges.(initially, women were all housed in Vanderbilt Hall for the first year, but this practice was gradually phased out.)
There never has been a time when minorities were only assigned to one college - although there was a period in the 1960's when some minority members transferred to particular colleges - strength in numbers.(I don't know if Trumbull was one of them) In any event, Trumbull was built about the same time as Davenport, JE and most of the other colleges; if Trumbull now has a smaller "endowment," it has nothing to do with race or gender.</p>
<p>Well, this may be a rumor too, but the story I've always heard was that a long time ago, Yalies paid different amounts for room and board. Large rooms --often with an extra bedroom for a servant--in colleges with good food cost more. Even within the same residential college, the room charges varied by the size and location of the room--street side vs. courtyard, etc. Trumbull had the smallest rooms and fewer meals were provided, so it was the cheapest place to live. As a result, it was filled with scholarship students. </p>
<p>Then during the Depression in the '30s, a lot of people lost most of their money, and it was hard to pay the bills to stay in school. So, suddenly, Trumbull became very popular, as students tried to cut costs to stay in school. </p>
<p>In any event, during various periods of time, some colleges were oversubscribed and others had lots of vacancies. Once someone found out your college and room number, he had a rough idea of your family's wealth, even if he hadn't had before. </p>
<p>I can't remember when but at some point, the decision was made to stop this and to make each college a mix of students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and to charge everyone the same amount. The alumni went beserk, since there were families that had had 5 generations live in the same college, so a compromise was reached which allowed legacies to choose their parents' college. (Siblings can too, BTW.) </p>
<p>Some of Yale's present residential colleges were built after the change to one price was instituted.</p>
<p>I don't think that is right, because the original 10 colleges were all built during the Great Depression from the early 30s to 1940 (Morse and Stiles were built in the 60's). I think at first that you had to apply to be in a residential college, sort of like a fraternity. As a result, Davenport and JE were probably the elitist WASPy sort of colleges and they recieved huge endowments and Trumbull was probably not nearly as elitist.</p>
<p>I would think that any of these residential college endowments are dwarfed by the University's $$$billions. What do they use their endowments for anyway. It couldn't be for much. Most obviously, until the recent renovations, all of the colleges, "rich" and "poor" were really run down, I heard on my tour.</p>
<p>They use their endowments for stuff like clothing and residential college events and whatnot. Also a certain amount of funding for a residential college renovation must be taken from the residential college's endowment. I think Trumbull is having some issues with their upcoming renovation because of their small endowment.</p>
<p>Morse IS AWESOME!!!</p>
<p>The freshman year is awesome, we get Durfee, and our rooms are like, so darn big. Unlike Pierson or Saybrook which gets stuck in L-Dub, their doubles are the size of our singles (and this means that everytime someone wants to get out of the room, the roommate has to make way)! It gets really miserable if you are confined in a small place. Plus Durfee is in the center of everything. The next three years when you are at Morse, you are practically guaranteed a single BIG BIG room. </p>
<p>Not only that, Morse is soooo near the gym.</p>
<p>how do the admission officers determine college placement? to what extent do they consider financial background, personality, interests, etc.?</p>
<p>also, does anyone know which college has the best piano facilities?</p>
<p>"Calhoun also boasts a basement cabaret with some of the best pianos you'll find in a residential college" - <a href="http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2001/here/p04rescoll.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2001/here/p04rescoll.html</a></p>
<p>There is a lot of good info in that link, as well as this one: <a href="http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2001/blue/p48.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2001/blue/p48.html</a></p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that college placement is random (unless you have a family history in a particular college, etc.) and doesn't consider financial backgrounds at the risk of segregating the campus. I think the people who assign rooms do like to have fun, though, because I lived on the 3rd floor of Bingham A last year, and we had 3 Davids and 2 Toms. Also, someone across the hall went to the only other Lakeside High School in GA, so both were represented in the two suites of the floor.</p>
<p>As far as best piano facilities, I can't say that I've seen these "best pianos... in a residential college" anywhere in the Cabaret, but maybe I haven't been looking hard enough... We do have a nice baby grand Steinway in the common room, though. (There are also baby grands in the dining hall and Master's House, but these are a bit harder to access at random hours.) I think one of my favorite things about Calhoun is our tire swing. Aside from being fun, it's also strangely nice just to look at through your window. And if you're lucky enough to be up at dawn (yay, papers), Calhoun College is absolutely stunning when the sun's just coming up and the bricks are painted with warm glow... Or perhaps I'm just really sleep deprived and out of it :).</p>
<p>JE has some really nice pianos.... being historically the artsy school. We have two grand piano's back to back in the common room, another grand in the dining hall, and another grand in the junior common room. There's also a small upright in our basement practice room. </p>
<p>we have lots of pianos... not to mention that we're the BEST residential colllege on campus :-p</p>
<p>My interviewer told me that Stiles and another college (I forget) were for "jocks" or "loners," because they were close to the gym and they were the only colleges with single rooms.</p>
<p>JE SUX
GO Branford, suck our tower</p>
<p>Kane - I don't think your interviewer knew what he was talking about. Stiles selection is <em>random</em> - at least as random as any other. (They intentionally choose a mix of kids for each college) .<br>
During bulldog days, an admissions officer told parents that making the selection of a college is the last thing that the admissions does with regard to our kids. There is a computer random "preselection" into 12 colleges, and then the adcoms sift and sort until they are satisfied that each college has a dynamic and interesting mix of students - sort of mini-yales in each. They definitely don't want all premeds in one or jocks in another.</p>
<p>Oh, no, I know it's random. We were talking about the possibility of switching colleges, which can apparently be done after a fair bit of effort.</p>
<p>It can be done easily. People switch all the time for various reasons. So as long as there is space, you can switch.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know that a lot of people on the track team switch to D-port for some reason or another.</p>
<p>i spent the summer at yale through JSA and girls were housed in TD and guys housed in a building called Rosenfeld pretty nice inside, piano/elevator/newish/redone interior which is across the street from TD (not across from the main entrance, but the side), on the side of the street with Bruegger's Bagels. I assumed both were residential collges but found out that rosenfeld is not one of the 12, so I've been awful curious as to what it is then and what purpose it serves/who lives there.</p>
<p>berkeley has the best dining hall</p>
<p>So how are transfers sorted into the Colleges? Do they just stick transfers wherever there's room? Does that mean that transfers are likely to end up in the least popular Colleges? Which ones are these?</p>