<p>Yale tends to bypass the strongest candidates, and take the second tier students with slightly less stellar test scores, GPAs and EC activities. In the last 3 years, 4 extraordinary students from my area were accepted to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and other top schools, but were all rejected by Yale.</p>
<p>I am not sure if this is due to some kind of inferior complex, knowing that most of these top students would most likely choose the others over Yale, possibly due to its location in a ghetto. Yale probably does this to protect their yield.</p>
<p>The above is anecdotal and observational. It may be merely due to chance.</p>
<p>Given that most of my friends from my country who were admitted to Yale scored in the 99.95th percentile in high school and were cross-admits basically everywhere, I’ve got anecdotal evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>Some CC posters have terrible population samples yet make monstrously inflammatory charges – then try to duck criticism by saying “it might just be by chance” – while also creating a new user name – to allow him/her to avoid attributable jeering to another user ID.</p>
<p>OP - sorry to be blunt, but your post is ridiculous! To extrapolate results from one high school and state what you did is foolish. Perhaps someone from your high school violated application ethics, or there is some unknown history regarding students who pulled out last minute after having accepted Yale’s offer of admission initially. Who knows? Often times, it’s just a plain fluke which students are cross-admitted at the top places. Or, again, do some research if the guidance office is forthcoming with a tale about an event in the past. Really would be more helpful than your absurd claim. </p>
<p>My personal beef about CC is the need to belittle or put-down other colleges just to pump up one’s own preference. WHY?! These are many, many amazing, competitive, top, superb universities. A student can only attend ONE. If cross-admitted, think through which option makes sense for you, and move on. STOP this need to bash the others, because obviously someone loved them at one time enough to apply. Quit with the sour grapes afterward. Leaves a bitter taste - not just for college, but for life!</p>
<p>It does seem that certain high schools have runs of “good luck” or “bad luck” with some of the most selective colleges. I’ve seen it at my kids’ school, which is a magnet that sends a lot of kids to selective schools each year–but sometimes there will be several years in which “nobody” gets into one of these schools, and other periods in which “lots” of applicants get into a particular school. I don’t think you can really extrapolate anything from this at all.</p>
<p>Your post is obviously biased and false, and you should really consider doing a little bit of research before you decide to make such bold claims.</p>
<p>First of all, the average GPAs and SAT scores of students admitted to Yale are right up there with those of students admitted to Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. To prove my point, here are the average SAT scores of Yale students admitted to the Yale Class of 2016:</p>
<p>SAT Critical Reading: 700-800
SAT Math: 710-790
SAT Writing: 710-800</p>
<p>It doesn’t take a genius to see that those are actually identical, which just goes to prove that Harvard and Yale (and Stanford and Princeton) generally admit the same kind of students.</p>
<p>Secondly, you continue to perpetuate the theory that Yale is situated right in the middle of a ghetto. False. Yale is in a city, and cities in general have areas that are not-so-nice. May schools have this problem. The area surrounding Yale is quite nice, and the Yale campus itself is even nicer. So yes, while admitted students’ perception of New Haven may be a reason that Yale’s yield is a few points lower than the yield rates of those other schools, bear in mind that yield reflects only that - a perception. And I would venture to say that most students’ perception of Yale and New Haven is inaccurate.</p>
<p>And if East Palo Alto didn’t have “East” in front of its name, and was rather lumped together with “Palo Alto”, people might think that Stanford was just as dangerous as Yale. This said as someone who went to that west coast school.</p>
<p>Lets all just admit, that unless we have been Yale admissions officers ourselves, we will never truly understand how the admissions process works when it comes to the top of the crop students anyway and lets be honest it changes year to year due to institutional needs only they will know. And who knows sometimes it’ll be the random mood of the person reading a student’s file!</p>