<p>What's bad about Yale??? Seriously...please tell me something that Yale lacks.</p>
<p>I've heard that it's science departments are lacking compared to similar institutions.</p>
<p>I think Yale itself is terrific. Perhaps the only bad thing about it is New Haven --> kind of run down in a lot of areas. I worried about leaving my car parked there.</p>
<p>It lacks:
- SoCal weather
- undergraduate degree at the School of Music
- Mom's home cooking</p>
<p>Other than that, it's pretty sweet.</p>
<p>definitely the location is its weakest point - run-down city, not close to a national airport</p>
<p>amen to tkm's gripe about no undergrad music performance degree. I'm bummed. On the plus side, there are amazing music opportunities all over campus, and if you're a really amazing musician there's always the opportunity for the joint program with the graduate school.</p>
<p>My biggest worry about Yale is the potential it has for turning out slightly hypocritical students, as reflected in the location of the school itself. I mean, we've got this bastion of weath and privelige with endowments out the wazoo in the middle of an extremely impoverished area. This could be a great asset if the university used the city as a way to raise civic awareness in its students. They do, to some extent through community service activities, but not as much as they could. I wish Yale did something more like what Columbia does, use the city as an extension of the classroom.</p>
<p>FYI: Yale has the largest student run community and social service organization in the country, called Dwight Hall. Its an amalgam of difference projects and groups. Check it out at <a href="http://www.dwighthall.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.dwighthall.org/</a>. If anything, Yalies are much more grounded because of New Haven.</p>
<p>I know that the students do a lot of volunteering in the community, and that's great. But I wish Yale as an institution did things more like columbia, with their "History of New York City" classes and other programs. Granted, NYC probably has a bit more history and cool stuff to study. But I still love yale and want to go there more than anything in the world. I didn't even apply to Columbia.</p>
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<p>Remember, that in addition to voluntary contributions, Yale is the largest taxpayer in the city. It's intrinsically tied to New Haven (a bad New Haven means lower yields, etc...), and I believe that the University is definitely trying to help the city out.</p>
<p>Yale is in one of the scariest and most dangerous towns I have ever been in.</p>
<p>obviously you've never walked through downtown Cleveland.</p>
<p>You're right I haven't</p>
<p>There are only two things I heard that are bad about Yale.</p>
<p>1.) New Haven=Dangerous town
2.) Getting rejected by Yale is a very likely scenario.</p>
<p>Besides that.. I can't think of anything else that would make Yale a bad place. </p>
<p>Everything else about Yale is great!</p>
<p>Parts of new haven are dangerous and run down, however the area around yale and the entire area east and south of the campus are quite gentrified and nice. Beside's that, Yale's campus is very safe.</p>
<p>yale is in the financial district in new haven...so nothing really bad in the immediate area</p>
<p>haha that's true Sonata, I drive down MLK alone every saturday night. Kinda scary.</p>
<p>Other then the fact that I have no chance and the fact that it's not Harvard, nothing.</p>
<p>(lol jk! Don't hate me!!!)</p>
<p>Yale lacks science buildings that are as close as the other buildings...but then, you could use a bike.</p>
<p>Yale lacks the small, discussion-oriented classroom environment you'll find in small liberal arts colleges. However, I think that the large lecture + small reading discussion section method has its own merits--you learn from reading on your own, you learn from listening to a brilliant professor lecture, and you learn from discussing the material in section.</p>
<p>Regarding the city:
- it's kinda nice within a 5-minute walking distance radius from Yale campus...after that I feel scared walking alone at night, though I've never been mugged.
- It's not a reason to go to Yale--there's not a lot to "do" in the Have, unlike in Boston or NYC.
- I think seeing homeless people begging me for money every day is a very important part of my personal, moral, and intellectual growth. It troubles me and forces me to confront the issue of inequality in a very personal way, on a daily basis--something you wouldn't have to do at Princeton or Stanford.</p>
<p>If you haven't figured out that Harvard_crimson is a troll, probably from another school or a kid that got rejected, you probably aren't pretty bright.</p>
<p>When I went on an athletic visit at Yale, the worst thing I saw was the insecurity of the students. They were probably some of the brightest kids in the US, yet it seemed to me that they had to constantly prove themselves. The "harvard-sucks" facebook group is the largest group on campus to give you an idea.
The kids also seemed pretty stressed (though not as much as Princeton) and I didn't really like the fact that their was a quasi-honors program at Yale. Everyone is brilliant there, I don't see the need of having higher-achievement programs for a select school.</p>
<p>And to the kid who said, "I think seeing homeless people begging me for money every day is a very important part of my personal, moral, and intellectual growth. It troubles me and forces me to confront the issue of inequality in a very personal way, on a daily basis--something you wouldn't have to do at Princeton or Stanford."
It is pretty sad if you haven't dealt with poverty or homeless people much in your life. That is the real world. </p>
<p>Other than this, I loved Yale, don't get me wrong</p>
<p>I live in sheltered middle-class suburbia, so the idea of New Haven scares me more than it should, I think. I really haven't dealt with 'poverty and homeless people' apart from the occasional drive through downtown San Diego.</p>