<p>My mom, a Yale alumna, received a fairly long letter today about the "role of legacy status in Yale admissions," complete with a flyer of frequently asked questions about legacy applicants. There was something in the letter to the effect of "Although we can't guarantee admission to all legacies..."</p>
<p>Does this mean anything, or is it just a mass mailing to all alumni with kids that applied this year? Has anyone else's parents (alumni) received one?</p>
<p>Yea my dad got one, too. I bet they just wanna keep you interested with these little teasers... along with keeping alumni parents sane for the time being.</p>
<p>Nice username!</p>
<p>It's actually a legitimate one 'cause it's my legal name. My dad named me after his alma mater. Cute huh?</p>
<p>Ha, I know a kid at Dartmouth named Yale :)</p>
<p>I'm guessing it's a "mass mailing".</p>
<p>Aww, how cute... I would run away from home if my parents named me Yale. I'm so sorry... what was your dad thinking?</p>
<p>Ok dreamsicle, obviously you're just jealous you didn't get this prestigious letter. You know you wanted to be named Yale. It increases your chance of admission by 39.4%.</p>
<p>ROFL, YOUR NAME IS YALE? HAHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>okay, I'm done. =)</p>
<p>you're the first person i'm meeting whose name is yale! wow, it would be nice knowing you! i bet yale (the university) is amused too!</p>
<p>i guess it's better than being named Berkeley :-\ i have a friend named Berkeley...irony is that he now goes to UCLA (he didn't get in to Berkeley)</p>
<p>I guess thats better than being named like, University of New Mexico and not getting in there.</p>
<p>About to sound a bity ditzy but,
in Gossip Girls Blair names her sister Yale because she's obsessed.</p>
<p>I know someone whose name is Yael that went to Yale. So if your name really is Yale, I'm not all that surprised to see it. lol.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>Just imagine being named Brown.</p>
<p>I don't know.....i dont think i could make it through school if my name was Kalamazoo.</p>
<p>The big question is whether or not they call you Kal or Zoo...</p>
<p>hm....there's also Kala...which could be pronounce Kayla in some....other...dialect.....? ::shrugs::</p>
<p>zoo is like...zoe? Kalamazoo is actually a very versatile name in terms of nickname possibilities!
<em>shudder</em>
my name is bad enough though...</p>
<p>I think Yale's name is one of the best in the world. I hope he gets in though, because the kid named Yale that goes to Dartmouth must stick out a little bit. Dartmouth is a wonderful school though, although Dartmouth wouldn't be a very nice first name.</p>
<p>Yale is unique to the Ivies in that one syllable says it all. Har-vard. Prince-ton. Yale!</p>
<p>...right, you'd get called "Mouth" or "Dirt mouth from Hangover..."(no offense intended, lots of Green inmy extended family!)</p>