re: #72 you say you know Yale, but previously said your daughter decided not to apply based on the Halloween costume incident. And was not that interested in Columbia due to Mattress Girl. The point lookingforward and others are making is that one or even a handful of isolated incidents involving a small percentage of students does not reflect the overall campus experience. The vast majority of Yale students (or students at most schools that have been in the news for these incidents) are not involved and are likely not overtly political. If that was one factor in not choosing Yale, and location was a bigger factor, that makes sense. But your earlier post suggests that the political issues were the key factor.
I don’t think that the vast majority of applicants are turning away from schools like Brown, Yale or Columbia due to these events. The acceptance rate has certainly not declined at those schools.