<p>Current applicants don't get too excited. This won't happen in time to make a difference for your chances :). </p>
<p>This is kind of old news. The idea has been kicking around for 30 years, and they announced definitive plans a couple of years or more ago. Architectural drawings have been on the Yale website since summer 2009. (Robert Stern. Very old-fashioned looking.)</p>
<p>That 800-student increase means 200 more per class, by the way, or maybe about 270 additional acceptances. It would have taken last year’s acceptance rate from 6.5% to 7.5%, except that the publicity would probably have pulled in enough additional apps to offset the increased acceptances.</p>
<p>Wish that was this year. ='(</p>
<p>Ahh same!
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<p>^It wouldn’t have made a difference. It’s not like the acceptance rate will jump from 6% to 25%</p>
<p>Not that much, but maybe a tad. If it took effect our year, the applicant pool would have stayed the same size, but the number of places would have increased, so the acceptance rate would have to increase by at least a little bit.</p>
<p>^ It could never happen like that though. I doubt they’d open more colleges during the decision process; they’d definitely do it long before applications were due in order to protect their acceptance rate.</p>
<p>"in order to protect their acceptance rate. " Yelo: The only thing Yale does is continue to market themselves. They don’t need to do anything to “protect” their minuscule accept rate.</p>
<p>Well, wouldn’t it make sense to make such an announcement pre-application so more would apply and counteract the increase in number accepted? I dunno, sounded logical to me at the time haha.</p>
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And if their acceptance rate changes by 1%, it could mean the difference between #1 and #2 in US News. Like you said, Yale is marketing itself.</p>
<p>LEED Gold Certification! Not many colleges care enough about the environment to do something significant about it (that also involves spending money). Yale is one of the few colleges that do. I actually talked about this in my Why Yale essay.</p>
<p>Kind of bummed that they won’t be finished with the new RCs anytime soon. Would have liked to live in one of them.</p>
<p>hume15: Yale has rotated among the top three USNWR slots since that ranking started. I don’t think Yale’s marketing strategy has anything to do with that in mind. Its institutional goals are premier. What *outsiders *think of Yale affects Yale very little.</p>
<p>when it says Yale has three years to submit the final plans does that mean that it will be done in 3 years or they won’t start building for three years</p>
<p>It means that if Yale isn’t moving forward on the project in a serious way within three years the permit effectively expires. They need to submit a “final site plan” to the city Planning Commission within three years. If they wait 1,000+ days to do that, and if there are any issues with it, the ETA for the new colleges could be 2019. On the other hand, they could be ready to start this spring or summer, and the new colleges could be open before the class being admitted now graduates. I suspect the truth will be somewhere in between those two.</p>
<p>I have a vested interest in this… my straight A Yale wannabee daughter is in eighth grade right now…</p>
<p>^ lol… But with straight 'A’s, a legacy, and a parent who is still involved with the university and admissions in general she should have a good shot. Unless you are wondering what changes the new colleges will bring?</p>
<p>Nahh… I just want Yale to admit more kids. Who knows? In four years, I’d love to join the ranks of “Yale Parents”</p>
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That may be true, but in this instance there’s nothing that Yale stands to gain by not taking the time to let things adjust, which they seem to be doing.</p>
<p>^I thought that was hmom5 for some reason! What happened to her?</p>
<p>Sounds interesting. When exactly will this project be finished?</p>