<p>Topic says it all. I turned down Brown, Princeton, MIT and Stanford for good ol' Yale. The happiness factor counts in a lot for me.. (though Brown is in there too)</p>
<p>I think I made the correct choice! I definitely wouldn't regret it. Any other people share the same views as me?</p>
<p>haha… I don’t think you’ll regret it. I myself turned down the University of Cambridge (in the UK, not US!) and UC Berkeley for Yale. I accepted Yale’s offer 5 minutes after I got admitted, and I didn’t regret at all :)</p>
<p>I have another friend who is also (probably) coming to Yale with me! (She’s torn between Princeton and Yale, but leaning towards Yale now…)</p>
<p>I’m so excited to be a Yalie! The connotations that Ivy Leaguers (esp HYP) are arrogant and snotty people is NOT true. Please don’t generalise because of one or two bad apples =)</p>
<p>Haha you have some sweeet offers.</p>
<p>Well, from what I heard, elitism is a prevalent thingy in the Ivies, HYP especially, like you said. So it kinda worried me a little, but I already chose Yale, and I’m happy with what I have :D</p>
<p>Since you said happiness is a factor…Princeton Review says that Yale students are the top 10 most happiest college students in the USA.</p>
<p>I think you’ll be happy as long as you make full use of your university life - there are always some arrogant people are out there, in any university, even those that are not renowned. Deal with it.</p>
<p>If you can’t even take one or two of these arrogant people, you expect to survive in the workforce? </p>
<p>And you expect that your working life would be soooooooooo smooth without arrogant people? Of course not. Like I said, these arrogant people are ubiquitous - be it Yale, Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Brown, UCLA, UMichigan, USC, Purdue, Iowa State, Georgetown… etc. You get what I mean. </p>
<p>If you cant stand those people, you can avoid them. But from my experience Yale’s pretty fine. </p>
<p>Within 10 hours of my acceptance, Yalies from my country spammed my Facebook and email to congratulate me, it was a big and warm welcome. I didn’t get anything of the sort from my other unis.</p>
<p>@helpperman89,</p>
<p>Likewise! Yale alumni from my country even asked me out for dinner - ON THEM! They were so excited to have a new freshmen from their country - perhaps even more excited than I was! Haha… I think I WILL enjoy my stay over at Yale, see you people in Fall? :)</p>
<p>Well, I turned down the London School of Economics for Yale too.</p>
<p>Yale’s a great school, things definitely wont go wrong there. (though I’m quite concerned about the workload!)</p>
<p>Agreed about the warm and accommodating ‘feeling’ Yale exudes. Don’t know if others feel it or not, but I do. I know I won’t regret coming here.</p>
<p>And yeah, see you people in Fall!</p>
<p>Congrats guys, you deserve to be there, and I’m sure you won’t regret it. Yale was one of my dream schools.</p>
<p>Congrats to all matriculating freshmen! One thing that may serve you well: I applied to some other Ivies and top engineering schools – I believe that I would have thrived at each and every one of them. I feel only gratitude that they accepted me (especially those that were tossing buckets of money my way), while also having no iota of regret for choosing Yale.</p>
<p>In your excitement of entering the Yale fold, please don’t fall into the false truth that your status gives you permission to denigrate colleges whose offers you’ll decline. (Not that I sense that in any of the posts on this thread to date).</p>
<p>In our exuberance, I see sometimes entering Yalies unconsiously or sometimes overtly saying things like “I turned down X and Y for Yale” and your audience is left with the impression that Yale is inherently superior to X and Y. It goes without saying that admittees to Yale are amongst the most highly valued applicants of any college. No need to boast about it, I would imagine.</p>
<p>Most current students and almost every alum I’ve met – is very humbled by the fact that we’re Yalies and what the University has imparted to us. Boasting is definitely not de rigueur.</p>
<p>Enjoy your pre-Yale time. Buy your Yale gear, sticker for your car windows, etc. Have fun! Afterward, the satisfaction actually is deeper because the enormity of it becomes more apparent.</p>
<p>I just said yes to Yale after my BDD experience. I fell in love with Yale when I first saw it this past October and my second visit this week sealed it for me. I feel so lucky and privileged!</p>
<p>My other two main options were Chicago and Princeton. Amazing schools, in the end, it really wasn’t a close decision for me.</p>
<p>I also confirmed last night after BDD. Yale was my top choice, so it really wasn’t a hard decision (though it still took me a while to press submit. I was deciding the next 4 years of my life.) I just wanted to visit before making anything official. I didn’t even bother to visit my next best option, Columbia, though I’m kind of regretting that now, because going to NYC on Columbia’s dime would have been nice.</p>
<p>I just confirmed a couple minutes ago that I’d be attending yale - turned down MIT.</p>
<p>Bulldog days were amazing!!!</p>
<p>So amazing…</p>
<p>I confirmed after BDD as well. I felt like Stanford and Princeton couldn’t top Yale’s environment. I was so happy there.</p>