<p>So it looks like they have removed the RC information… but what I want to know is are we sure it was correct? Could we end up in a different college?</p>
<p>I found out that they still leave some published. I searched for my friends and their residential college affiliation were there, but mine wasn’t :-??. Maybe some students are not assigned yet :-?</p>
<p>Branford '14! Anyone know if Vanderbilt hall has singles?</p>
<p>Just got an email sent to my Yale account explaining the mishap lol.</p>
<p>Me too, lol :))</p>
<p>really? what did the email say</p>
<p>
Does this mean that our assignment isn’t final? Or does it mean that not everyone has been assigned to a college yet?</p>
<p>hmm I don’t know. I was just starting to get attached to Branford too. I’m guessing everyone’s college hasn’t been decided yet but the one’s that were posted are final. When it was working I searched a friend of mine going to Yale next year and under college for him it said something like undelcared</p>
<p>Morse! </p>
<p>Master Keil, in-suite bathrooms in Durfee, close to the gym… psyched!
Nothing we can do about the lack of natural lighting and the ugly facade. </p>
<p>I think the email meant that some people hadn’t been assigned yet… some people I searched came up as “unaffiliated”.</p>
<p>yeah I definitely think that those whose came up are decided. It would be odd for people to have college assignments on a server if they weren’t ‘real’.</p>
<p>Morse baby! Im really happy about it too I hope it wasnt a mistake.</p>
<p>^^Besides, the email doesn’t say that the “partial information” was unreliable, just that it’s no longer publicly available.</p>
<p>Does Trumbull have a student kitchen?</p>
<p>Stiles 14’. disapointed at first but now excited. I just wanted the beautiful architecture but besides that everything will great after the renovation</p>
<p>Saybrook w00t w00t!</p>
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<li><p>Vandy has VERY few singles. Don’t expect a single. And the doubles are small.</p></li>
<li><p>Trumbull does have a student kitchen; all colleges do. Bingham doesn’t though. But Bingham is great so don’t worry! ;)</p></li>
<li><p>These are likely to be your final college placements. It’s just that they haven’t finished sorting everyone. I’m not sure how they do it, or why some have already been decided. I wish I could find out. Maybe I’ll ask Dean Gentry - but I doubt he’ll tell me.</p></li>
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<p>I searched up my friend a few days back and saw she was in Saybrook, but I couldn’t find myself… I guess I know why now! Just crossing my fingers and hoping it ain’t Morse!</p>
<p>I’ve never been a fan of CC but I figured I could make a few acquaintances before I head off for Yale! It’s been months and I’m still in shock!</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore at Yale, and everyone here will tell you that his or her college is the best one. That could not be further from the truth. I’ll tell you how colleges actually compare to one another, because now some of you have not yet blindly pledged allegiance to your randomly sampled group of students. </p>
<p>My rankings:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Silliman: This is by far the best college due to its rich endowment, beautiful courtyard, and superb housing. It has the best dining hall facilities, and the gym and library are conveniently located in the same building as the cafeteria. Silliman Freshmen may not be on Old Campus, but the amenities they will be enjoying far outweigh living next to freshmen in second-class dorms. If you’re lucky enough to get into Silliman, quietly celebrate and assure others that they too have gotten into wonderful colleges.
<em>Best Housing</em>
<em>Best Dining Hall</em>
<em>Best Gym</em>
<em>Great Basement</em></p></li>
<li><p>JE–The second best college is Jonathan Edwards College. This is not because it has a great dining hall (it sucks), nor because the courtyard is pretty (it’s ugly and fragmented), and not even because its freshman housing is amazing (it’s just slightly above average). No, JE ranks second because it is FILTHY RICH. JE has the most money out of any college. It sponsors amazing trips, subsidizes fantastic summer opportunities and even undertakes the most costly renovations. Its basement is beautifully furnished. It is so rich that it paid for poor Trumbull’s renovation, and was willing to install AC in all of the residential colleges until Richard Levin quashed the idea, claiming that was JE was undertaking an outrageously extravagant project. If you’re in JE, just know that your friends in poorer colleges are extremely jealous of your loaded pockets. </p></li>
</ol>
<p><em>Best Endowment</em> (by far)
<em>Excellent Basement</em></p>
<ol>
<li>Davenport–Davenport, for some reason, gets great freshmen (and so does Morse, by the way). It also has a great dining hall, a good gym, which it shares with Pierson, and a very nice courtyard that may have an eerie resemblance to a plantation due to the Georgian architecture. Nonetheless, Davenport sponsors great trips to the Opera, ski resorts, and NYC. Plus, Davenport housing is great freshmen year and at the college level.
<em>Best Housing if Princess Suite girl</em>
<em>Great Dining Hall</em>
<em>Good Housing</em></li>
</ol>
<p>The rest I will rank in clumps and describe the positives and negatives:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Pierson
<em>Good Housing in Residential College</em>
<em>WORST Freshman Housing BY FAR</em>
<em>Mediocre Dining Hall</em> (too bright for my taste)
*Has a Great Endowment–Plans a trip to Italy for all Pierson seniors. </p>
<ol>
<li>Berkeley=Branford=TD=Calhoun=Trumbull</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>Berkeley:
<em>Great Dining Hall Food</em>
<em>Mediocre Dining Hall Facilities</em>
<em>Mediocre Housing</em>
<em>Mediocre Gym</em>
<em>Best Location=super convenient</em></p>
<p>Branford
<em>BEST Courtyard</em> --extremely pretty
<em>Great Master</em>
<em>Good Dining Hall</em>
<em>Good Housing in College</em>
<em>Mediocre/Bad Housing Freshmen Year</em>
<em>TERRIBLE Gym</em>
<em>Very bad Basement</em>
<em>Very poor endowment</em></p>
<p>TD:
<em>Great spirit</em>
<em>Good housing</em>
<em>Terrible dining hall</em>
<em>Mediocre Courtyard</em>
<em>Very far from everything</em></p>
<p>Trumbull
<em>Great Dining Hall</em>
<em>Great Dining Hall Food</em>
<em>Okay Housing</em>
<em>Extremely Tiny College</em> (fewer people)–stereotype: non-athletes
<em>Poor Endowment</em></p>
<p>Calhoun
<em>Recently Renovated</em>
<em>Mediocre Freshman Housing</em>
<em>Mediocre/Good Res. College Housing</em>
<em>Good Dining Hall</em>
<em>Great Gym</em>
<em>Great Basement</em>
<em>Extremely tiny</em>
<em>Small, unimpressive courtyard</em>
<em>Convenient location</em></p>
<ol>
<li>Saybrook
<em>Poor endowment</em>
<em>Unorganized dining hall</em>
<em>Mediocre Res. College Housing</em>
<em>TERRIBLE Freshmen Housing</em> WORST w/ Pierson.
<em>Worse little brother of Branford</em></li>
</ol>
<p>11.Morse=Stiles
<em>Not gothic at all</em>
<em>Modern (i.e,FAIL) architecture</em>
<em>Renovations may improve it?</em>
<em>With renovations, the only good thing about Morse and Stiles is being taken out. A few years ago, kids were consoled when they found out they were in Morse and Stiles because they were guaranteed a single all four years. That, unfortunately, is no longer true. At least Stiles people can now look forward to a new building, and Morse individuals can do the same!</em>
<em>Almost unanimously agreed upon as the least desirable colleges</em>
Morse–Durfee=Fantastic freshmen housing with many singles and some doubles
EZ–Lawrance–A mixture of HUGE doubles and spacious singles.
Both have great freshmen housing!</p>
<p><strong><em>Just a note: These are my observations, which many of my friends, who are not even in my top 4 colleges, also agree with. I am not placed in any of the Top 4 colleges. My rankings are not influenced by my randomly assigned student community (i.e, my residential college); rather, I developed my rankings from what I have ascertained to be the quality of amenities each college offers.</em></strong></p>
<p>If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.</p>
<p>^^^interesting. how much do people from different colleges interact freshmen year, are most of your friends from your college?</p>
<p>You will meet a lot of freshmen at pre-orientation, in classes, and in your own college. I have friends in my college and outside of my college. My strongest friendships, however, are not within my college. But remember what I said: residential colleges are just random groups of students. It’s likely that you will get along with many people in your college, but you may not find your next best friend there. That’s no big deal. Be sure to make an effort to get to know your peers in your college, while not limiting yourself to the one hundred or so freshmen in that dorm. Yale is undoubtedly a great place; each and every residential college has wonderful people you can surely meet and become good friends with too.</p>