<p>I am going to attend all 3 colleges for overnight visits. I am going to try to put aside any preconceived thoughts and have a completely open mind. I hope this will help me to find the right college for me.</p>
<p>Sounds like a good plan. One thing is confusing: prior posts of yours seem to indicate that your daughter was the applicant - not you. Am I missing something?</p>
<p>And am I correct that you (or your daughter) applied early to Yale?</p>
<p>Lol. I guess she tried to puzzle the enemy :)</p>
<p>lol, you are so scary Byerly. Do you work professionally in espionage?
There is an excellent thread comparing H and P on Pton board: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168140%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168140</a> . Yale is also mentioned from time to time wrt Pton's eating clubs and H's final clubs. A fair bit of reading, hope that helps :)</p>
<p>byerly is a member of the CIA.</p>
<p>well, guess the cat's out of the bag. sorry byerly.</p>
<p>Byerly,</p>
<p>I also went through the old posts (back to page 11 -- now who has too much time on their hands?) and saw that sometimes the OP posts as the mom and sometimes as the daughter -- so they are probably just sharing the screen name.</p>
<p>That seemed possible... but the problem with sharing a screenname is that you never know who's talking, who's ideas are being expressed etc, or who will respond if you direct a post to him/her.</p>
<p>No answer received to my question yet. Presumably the kid applied and was admitted SCEA to Yale, her (or the parent's) "dream school" - then got into Harvard and Princeton RD and is reconsidering the dream!</p>
<p>This often happens with tactical EA applications to a Chicago, Georgetown etc., where the idea is to take a bird-in-the hand and THEN apply RD to the "dream school", but only rarely with the SCEA schools (Harvard, Stanford,Yale) where 88-91% of the early admits stick with the first app.</p>
<p>She's very fickle with capitalization..</p>
<p>I reckon Byerly relays information about the personalities of prospective students on to the adcoms.</p>
<p>I definitely do that. I make deliberately provocative posts, to allow adcom guage people's reaction under pressure ;)</p>
<p>Oh.... ****!</p>