<p>I think the title is a bit of an overkill. Highlighting? Really? </p>
<p>Reading that article doesn’t make me any less thrilled at having a shot at one of the best colleges in the world. Everyone’s experiences at yale won’t be the same. Sure there will always be a few who hated it and a few who weren’t so thrilled, but it ultimately comes down to what YOU make of it. If you really want to have the best college experience it’s your responsibility to hunt down things that spark your interest and keep you involved in the college. If someone decides to mope around their room all day and do nothing but studying, obviously they’re not going to have such a great time. Just don’t walk in on the first day and expect everything to go wrong or for your college to pull miracles out of their sleeves. Go forth with an optimistic attitude and don’t let someone else’s blog or paper shape your opinions.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap beat me to finding the previous submissions of this article, one of which was to this very Yale Forum. One person’s opinion, and quite possibly an erroneous opinion. Worth discussing if you are still in doubt about where to enroll after receiving multiple offers of admission. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you still waiting for admission news.</p>
<p>maybe introspection and all this crap isn’t necessary. transcendentalism has only created a generation of hippies and dead people. maybe college is supposed to get you ready for a career? maybe that’s why you go to college?</p>
<p>The long and short is that what this guy says about people who go to Ivy league schools is about as valid as saying people that go to vocational schools are ignorant wastes of space only worthy to perform menial tasks and stay out of sight when not in use as tools.</p>
<p>It’s stupid/inaccurate/a comfortable reality for someone that assumes their worldview is correct/incredibly detrimental in the long to a society because it encourages psychological stratification of that society, and poorly written to boot.</p>
<p>It’s sad that posters above are “hating” against this article. The article is not outright bashing elite schools with no basis, it’s just the experiences and conclusions of one professor at Yale. I don’t think you should “highlight” this article (what does that even mean?), but give it some respect, because the writer has a lot more experience than you do. Some interesting points I found while skimming:</p>
<p>“The elite like to think of themselves as belonging to a meritocracy, but that’s true only up to a point. Getting through the gate is very difficult, but once you’re in, there’s almost nothing you can do to get kicked out.”</p>
<p>“There’s a reason elite schools speak of training leaders, not thinkers—holders of power, not its critics. An independent mind is independent of all allegiances, and elite schools, which get a large percentage of their budget from alumni giving, are strongly invested in fostering institutional loyalty.”</p>
<p>“Being an intellectual means thinking your way toward a vision of the good society and then trying to realize that vision by speaking truth to power. It means going into spiritual exile. It means foreswearing your allegiance, in lonely freedom, to God, to country, and to Yale.”</p>
<p>No2: I did not say “age = experience” did I? I said he was a professor at Yale (according to the article, for 10 years), and he made conclusions based on his experience. Fact? No. Conclusions? Yes. So you should respect his view, because it most certainly has some truth in it.</p>