Yale 2022 Applicants Discussion

@ski_racer Thx

So interesting how I see the same people over and over across all the threads of the schools I applied to! Honestly wish there was like some sort of thread where everyone that applied to specific clusters of schools could talk it out- which they prefer more, the differences, etc. We are all in this together, after all! :smiley:

@anxiouswreck which cluster did you apply to?

@applicant1313 I’m part of the bunch that applied to places like Emory, UNC, Duke, and Yale (I didn’t apply to UVA but that is also another one the same people tend to apply to)

@applicant1313 @anxiouswreck I did Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, Syracuse, BU, U of ID, U of Nevada-Reno, and Colorado School of Mines.

@anxiouswreck @ski_racer huh. I applied to MIT, the Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Vanderbilt and the University of Florida. I ended up applying to a lot of schools, but each one has something unique I really like about it.

@applicant1313 same. As you can see, I’m a cold weather person

@applicant1313 wow, that’s so many top schools! I wish I was qualified enough to try and pull that one :stuck_out_tongue: congrats on all your achievements!
Just wondering, considering you applied to all of the Ivies, why Yale? (anyone can answer this :slight_smile: )
For me, it is the residential college system, club gymnastics, and people with a diversity of interests and beliefs that really pulled me in to apply. Just wondering what other people are thinking

What is the residential college system

@anxiouswreck it’s very close to my grandparents and my favorite aunt. They also have a club ski team.

@bros20000
Here is info from Yale website about its residential college system, afaik, Rice and UChicago also have this system. It is great!
https://yalecollege.yale.edu/campus-life/residential-colleges

@anxiouswreck I also like the residential system, and also how I can study study engineering, political science, and music all at Yale. Yale has great diversity of its programs and students in those programs.

@makemesmart thanks for information, first reaction as a parent is certainly like the concept, of course it is working as it is in effect for 70 years, and make a whole lot of difference when kids gets lost in 40~50K school population.

My D did Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, UNC, UVA and Clemson. Accepted to UVA, UNC and Clemson, deferred from Princeton.

@MayBIvyMomma Just curious, how did she get accepted to UVA yet defered from Princeton? Princeton is SCEA, while UVA’s RD results haven’t come out yet (to my knowledge).

SCEA/REA doesn’t preclude you from applying EA to any public universities.

@makemesmart thank you for the link!

@1NJParent @MayBIvyMomma Yes, ty, I had forgotten you could also apply to public EAs.

@applicant1313 @1NJParent It is nice they can apply EA to publics since without that you would just have to sit with possibly no options until late March. I also think it’s a great idea that the Ivy’s let their SCEA/EA accepted students wait until May 1 to commit.

Yes its a good system. I personally prefer MIT’s completely open EA, but in reality bc of most other top school’s SCEA or ED programs, it is pretty much just EA to MIT and then publics.