""The Gatekeepers"- Julianna Bentes, Yale '04

<p>The Gatekeepers (2002) was an interesting behind-the-scenes admissions book. The highly sought after Julianna Bentes was a big part of the book. I'm curious if anyone knows what she majored in and decided to do after graduation from Yale in 2004?</p>

<p>(2002) "While accompanying my roommate to buy (not steal) a meal at Durfee's, I encountered Julianna Bentes, SM '04, who bemoaned Yale's crappy meal plan. Last year, frustrated with losing money every day, Bentes attempted to eat all three meals in accordance with Yale's dining schedule. Unfortunately, this petite junior found herself becoming hungry at odd hours of the day because the dining schedule is simply not normal: Who eats dinner at 5:30 p.m.? And the story concludes with Julianna gaining a few pounds due to late-night snacking. Thanks, Yale. Currently, this junior is following the route of many undergraduates by transferring her meal credit to the Law School, where she can buy food and take it back to her suite to eat when she's hungry."</p>

<p>(2003)</p>

<p>"BSAY )Black Students At Yale?) co-president Julianna Bentes '04 said she did not feel as actively wooed by Yale as she did from other universities. But she said Yale made efforts to show her the cultural houses and introduce her in an informal way to minority student life at the University.</p>

<p>Bentes said Yale does a good job of recruiting minority students.</p>

<p>"I think [Yale is] doing well, especially within the context of the Ivy League," she said. "[But] in terms of nationwide [performance], they could be pushing it further."</p>

<p>Sheesh.....Yale food is not THAT bad....and 5:30 is quite normal. It sounds like this woman was very spoiled and never learned how to just "go with the flow", or "use what you have."</p>

<p>Friday, members of United Students at Yale delivered a petition calling for greater student input in University policy-making to the office of Yale President Richard Levin.</p>

<p>In one of the group's first concrete actions, the members presented the petition, which they said contains 3,017 undergraduate signatures to Nina Glickson, an assistant to the president.</p>

<p>"We are asking for more meaningful input into the decisions that affect our lives," reads a cover letter that accompanied the petition. "We have identified three areas of widespread concern -- financial aid policy, diversity on campus, and Yale's actions as a local and global citizen."</p>

<p>Several USAY members said the petition's ambiguity aimed at allowing the University flexibility in deciding how to include the student body.</p>

<p>"It was intentionally left open-ended," said Julianna Ben"tes '04, who helped deliver the petitions, which do not contain USAY's name."</p>

<p>beechbum114 -</p>

<p>Maybe I'm not thinking of the same person, but I read this book and I'm pretty sure that this girl grew up in a Brazilian slum :-)</p>

<p>as usual, there is absolutely no point to byerlys articles or his posts in general</p>

<p>She went to a very fancy school before entering Yale (the Harvard-Westlake School, an exclusive private school in Los Angeles), and was very politically active once she became an undergrad.</p>

<p>So what is she doing now?</p>

<p>haha...whoops...didnt know that little piece of info!</p>

<p>It appears from Google that she is in Yale Law School, class of 2009.</p>

<p>BTW-I know this is off topic, but does anyone else get the sense that she is a bit of a cry baby. It seems to me from reading the book that she has never experienced any type of discrimination. She apparently overheard some girls in the bathroom saying that they didn't like hispanics, and took that to heart. She is like a female Obama, or at least the media portrayal of Obama, bi racial, and yet seems to vigorously embrace her African half at the expense of her European half.</p>

<p>Just my observation.</p>

<p>I don't get why she was so heavily recruited by all those schools - i read the book and, well, I know things have changed in the last 6-8 years, but not so much that people like her would go from being highly sought-after to "common." Yet there are plenty of people I know who are just like her who have been rejected by Ivies</p>

<p>She went to the same independent prep school as my kids, and she did not grow up in a slum. Her father is Brazillian, and she was both african-american and hispanic, but underprivileged only in the context of her super-rich classmates.</p>