<p>Cerulean - where are you end of going? Yale? Do you like it?</p>
<p>Hey it seems like this thread was made with me in mind!</p>
<p>A link to statistics of interest: comparative rank of quantitative field Ph.D.'s completed vs. quantitative field majors at each school.</p>
<p>Interpretation: Yale gets fewer science majors than other peer schools (otherwise it would appear higher in standard Ph.D. production lists which compare all grads to docs earned) but appears to treat and train its majors well for future careers in science.</p>
<p>C'mon... nerdishness is not just about washing beakers and the weird ways of engineers. Humanities types have nerdishness to spare! Do you like languages? History! Languages! Literature! Art! Reading dead people's mail! Figuring out which contemporary authors are really any good, among the piles of junk that's published! Philosophy! Ethics! Theology!</p>
<p><3 the Humanities -- that's what Yale understands and that's why a great education involves Liberal Arts and Sciences... (end of rant)</p>
<p>Yeah, I guess I could say I'm a lit/writing/general English "nerd." My Yale supplemental essay is one giant sentence like the end of Ulysses. :p</p>
<p>(Funny, though, that the above poster is practically shouting "I want to be considered a nerd too!" as if that were a desirable thing. Not that it's not, but it just strikes me as funny considering that most people would rather not be called nerds. Ok I'll stop now.)</p>
<p>in love with Yale After Caltech/MIT acceptance?</p>
<p>I don't think there are too many people lucky enough to be in those shoes. Congrats.</p>
<p>lol, me too.^^</p>
<p>I've been accepted to MIT early, but deffered from caltech and applied to yale RD....but I wasn't so sure about yale because it's too close to home and its engineering seems to be weaker than MIT/caltech...</p>
<p>hi to all</p>
<p>same here,</p>
<p>I am an international student from germany and I am accepted at CAltech, stanford and yale + have a scholarship from cornell.</p>
<p>i love to do engineering</p>
<p>however i cant decide…</p>
<p>I know this thread is a year old… but I just want to hear peoples’ opinions this year. I know I want to go into the sciences and am not the language/humanities person at all (however I do love art (painting, drawing, etc))… would I fit in?</p>
<p>I think Yale & MIT are probs my top 2. Fortunately, I got into MIT (Yay!). Unfortunately, I was waitlisted at Yale (Boo!).</p>
<p>So now I’m stuck with my mother telling me 50x a day that Harvard is the best school in the world and that I must go.</p>
<p>Awww… that stinks. My parents said they are staying out of my decision, which can be a little frustrating when I ask them their opinion and their like “whatever you want.” Harvard was my number one, but I got rejected.</p>
<p>Sorry about your Harvard decision :(.</p>
<p>Well… can’t feel too bad with what I have :)</p>
<p>Millancad, you’re definitely picking MIT over Harvard? :(</p>
<p>Wow, I started this thread 2 years ago and it seems so many are in the same boat. </p>
<p>If you’re curious, I chose Yale- and given the chance I’d do it again and again. Yale has a healthy nerd culture, although I still like to visit MIT for real craziness. Undergrad research here is also amazing- easy to get involved in, generously funded even in hard times, and vibrant in scope. I can’t imagine that understanding quantum mechanics could be any more magical at MIT. Sure, you’ll meet folks here who’ll never learn calculus, but honestly the desire to cloister oneself away from humanities types shouldn’t be a point of pride.</p>
<p>Anyway, congratulations on your acceptances and good luck with your decisions. Let me know if you have specific questions, or if you’d like coffee or a lab tour at Bull Dog Days!</p>
<p>Yeah, I was reading the posts and saw that you were a member since 2008 and have posted 11 times. Didnt look at the date, and somehow thuoght you were a ■■■■■. </p>
<p>Congrats. I went with a friend to Boston and we ended up going to MIT. I forgot the feeling, but I remember thinking about the movie 21 and wanting to go to MIT. </p>
<p>I am over it now. sad, lol.</p>
<p>I like this thread.</p>
<p>I’m SO glad I’m not the only one who chose Yale over a “better” engineering school (Stanford) 
I need my music/art nerds.</p>