<p>im trying to see where i would fit in....although school are like we r all different there is an image that people get u mention that school. for example brown students seem to be free flowing and liberal and princton students seem to be dry with no personality what is teh typical yale student?</p>
<p>dry with no personality? bwahahaha! <em>spews milk everywhere</em></p>
<p>You may now return to your regularly-scheduled thread discussion...</p>
<p>Yale students - <em>Big eyes</em> "Wow. You must be a genius" - Thats what people will say if you mention you're a Yalie.</p>
<p>Yale students (from the ones i've met) are incredibly smart, but also VERY active and passionate about their studies and what they do. I'm missing a lot here...but yeah</p>
<p>Try not to buy into stereotypes. In doing so, you might be precluding yourself from an amazing educational and intellectual experience.</p>
<p>Yalies can be anything... they're brilliant, but chill and they LOVE to have fun. of course, I'm working on a speech about why we shouldn't use labels this week. Yale is the 'fun' university, but not in the UPenn 'let's get smashed on the weekends!' way.</p>
<p>In a word, I suppose, Yalies are intense; they are completely engrossed in whatever it is they happen to be doing. For the most part - ah, what am I thinking, we're talking about stereotypes here - everyone is gracious and interested in everything, yet with a focus.</p>
<p>As my regional rep put it, Yalies aren't simply well-rounded - they are like eggs. Well-rounded, but with a point. :)</p>
<p>haha, gotta love the UPenn stereotype.</p>
<p>Truly. My friend (who used to live in Philadelphia) still refers to UPenn as "Penn State." :)</p>
<p>Vivaldi - you went to the Dan O'Neill thing in September in Columbus? I went to that - cause i was going to miss the one in Cleveland...yeahhhhhhh...dont ask why i travelled that far. I thought he did a good job...but he kind of focused on SATs</p>
<p>Yeah, I was there. I also went to his info session last September (i.e., 2003)...I've been interested in Yale for a while.</p>
<p>I was lucky. I took my Yale viewbook with me, he noticed it, and I was the first person he came over to talk to. AND he remembered who I was. Let's hope he remembered at the Admissions Committee. ;)</p>
<p>Oh my god! I so know who you are! (Dont be freaked...I have a good memory)</p>
<p>You had some button down shirt and jeans on, or something like that, right? I remember him going over to "you" (if it was you) and I was like "f u c k, i'm never getting in"</p>
<p>Wow, you do have a good memory. I was wearing the blue button-down shirt I wore for my on-campus interview and jeans with tiny blue stripes in them. Subliminal messaging can't hurt, I suppose.</p>
<p>I wanted him to be able to put a face with my application, and I wanted to address the issue of my bad school district with him in person (I didn't want to whine about it to him in my essays).</p>
<p>By any chance, did you happen to notice the older Asian woman with no children there? She came up and talked to him afterwards, and basically made him repeat all the information he presented and that could be found easily in the most rudimentary pamphlet on Yale. She did the same thing at the local Harvard and Columbia meetings...haha.</p>
<p>This is really odd...I thought online forums such as these were supposed to be about anonymity...:)</p>
<p>Oh my god. The entire family (she had a husband and daughter there) kept asking him the SAME questions. I was about to tell them to shut up, but i figured it wouldn't be a good idea. I just needed to know when to send in the mid year report...but that took like an extra hour to even get to ask.</p>
<p>Hahah, anonymity? Thats no fun....</p>
<p>Haha, I vaguely remember you (I think) - I at least remember the question about the midyear report, and I remember some arrogant dad (the son didn't bother to come) asking if his son should retake his SAT if he was 10 points away from the 75th percentile because "he was out having fun the night before and probably wasn't concentrating hard enough" or some BS like that. I can't stand overbearing parents in this process.</p>
<p>You're not getting a physical description out of me (of you), though. My photographic memory doesn't work so well with people. :)</p>
<p>I was whining to my friends about how my cousin got into Cambridge last year (he's from the UK) and how that really put the pressure on me this year to get into a good school. I was like, "How can I compete with Cambridge?" and some guy who didn't even know that I applied to Yale told me, "Just get into Yale or Harvard or something." (Just??!!)</p>
<p>Anyways, from what I gleaned from him, he saw Yale and Harvard as the U.S. versions of Oxford and Cambridge. Doesn't have that much to do with stereotypes, but just thought I'd share.</p>
<p>Also, I've been reading back issues of Rumpus (<a href="http://www.yalerumpus.com%5B/url%5D">www.yalerumpus.com</a>), the Yale tabloid, and the impression I got from that was that everyone at Yale has one-night stands with total strangers on a daily basis. Soo... Yale is probably one of the more liberal Ivys.</p>
<p>One-night stands? I thought that was Dartmouth. ;)</p>
<p>Um, yeah. I found my interviewer from over the summer in the 03-04 Yale 50 Hottest people...and apparently he had a 1 night stand in a closet with some girl. Thats comforting to know he's going to be helping decide MY future. Hrm.......</p>
<p>Out of sheer curiosity, who was your interviewer? Mine was in a fraternity...</p>
<p>Andrew Sullivan - he plays football</p>
<p>Haha, he was listed as my resource, but he didn't interview me. I was lucky - I was interviewed by someone who came to Yale from a similar situation (crappy Midwestern public school that never sent graduates to the Ivies, or any other prominent institutions for that matter). And he didn't mention any one-night stands...although that probably wouldn't typically come up in an interview, I suppose...</p>
<p>EDIT: WAIT, now that I think about it, he might have been one of the students in my Student Forum that I attended! Was he from Cincinnati, Ohio?</p>
<p>EDIT 2: nevermind...I don't think so...</p>
<p>I need to go to bed.</p>