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<p>This characterization deserves quoted support.</p>
<p>I consider this thread ridiculous because your question is either poorly asked or absurd.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh that video was AMAZING. I go to Yale already and it made me want to apply. </p>
<p>I am afraid though that the video made Yale seem better than it is. Yale is just a normal school, with normal people, who do normal things. I feel bad that the admissions office works to portray Yale as a magical place, when in fact it is just a college (albeit the best college in the world and I would never in my life want to go anywhere else).I also feel bad that so many students are going to apply who are just going to get rejected. But at times Yale can be too much, like EVERYTHING at Yale is extraordinarily ornate and grandiose to the point that it becomes too much. I mean even the places we eat are amazing, and the carpet in our common room that we step on everyday is 50K dollars. </p>
<p>I love the Asian girl and that guy in the video, I went to a concert for their a capella groups and loved it. </p>
<p>Also the whole Nobel prize winner teaching undergrads thing is 100% true, MCDB 200 an intro bio class is taught by Sidney Altman who won a Nobel in '89, he is a bad professor though. </p>
<p>One fun event that I hope they keep is bladderball. For all the pre-frosh bladerball was an event where the university brought out a huge ball and the students competed to move the ball into their residential colleges. We LITERALLY over ran the streets of New Haven and the cars had to stop and wait until the game was over. IT WAS AMAZING and Yale is amazing.</p>
<p>JHS is right though, if someone has problems with Yale having gay people then that is not someone who I would want to be class mates with. I think your son should apply, so that he can be rejected and make the admission rate go down; thereby making Yale look even better than it is, but attitudes such as the OP’s are ignorant and offensive.</p>
<p>^ Dbate, I agree with you that people should be tolerant, but you’re being rude to the OP. Don’t do that–you’re a better person than that. You don’t have to be a jerk to get your point across. Actually, you’re diminishing it.</p>
<p>By the way, I’m a straight guy from NYC.</p>
<p>Yale has appx. 5000 students. In order for the OPs son to “feel like a fish out of water,” how many students would have to be gay out of this 5000? Even if the answer is “half,” that would mean that 2500 students would be gay. And how likely do you think that is? So, not that many? Maybe only a quarter to feel it? Maybe only 15%? Can you see why the question seems offensive and preposterous? There is no likely number of gay students that would make anyone uncomfortable unless they were already uncomfortable with gay people.
I’m with JHS. If that is your son, it’s probably better that he apply elsewhere.</p>
<p>Main Entry: in·cred·u·lous
Pronunciation: (ˌ)in-ˈkre-jə-ləs, -dyə-ləs
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin incredulus, from in- + credulus credulous
Date: 1579
1 : unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical
2 : incredible 1
3 : expressing incredulity <an incredulous=“” stare=“”>
in·cred·u·lous·ly adverb </an></p>
<p>usage Sense 2 was revived in the 20th century after a couple of centuries of disuse. Although it is a sense with good literary precedentamong others Shakespeare used itmany people think it is a result of confusion with incredible, which is still the usual word in this sense.</p>
<p>Can one feel incredulous about a question?</p>
<p>NONONO of course your son will not fit in!! All the yale guys I know have always shown certain “tendencies”. Your son should definitely consider Harvard instead, a lot more straight girls and guys. </p>
<p>Honestly what type of stupid question is this? There are over 5000 undergrads for your information and all of them are gay?</p>
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<p>See definition (1): one can be skeptical about a question.</p>
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<p>Then you obviously don’t agree very vehemently.</p>
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<p>Geez, son must be living in the wrong dorm. His common room has bare floors that are covered with a crummy carpet remnant dragged out of somebody’s basement. The overall effect is not bad, but the overall cost was far less than $50 K. (The boys do, however, have a fireplace to house their recycling bin.)</p>
<p>OK, since I am the one who first used the word “incredulous” to describe my response to the OP’s inquiry, I will explain. I found it tough to believe that a student or parent would sincerely question whether there were “enough” straight students at Yale. </p>
<p>One definition of “incredulous” is “difficult to believe” or “incredible.”</p>
<p>And yes, you can be incredulous about a question. As in, I am incredulous (cannot believe/cannot be credulous) that someone could ask such a stupid question.</p>
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(sorry for the repeated information, as I was typing this two people posted basically the same thing)</p>
<p>just my 2 cents, but everyone I know at Yale is gay.</p>
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<p>Sorry, but it is REALLY hard to believe that your question was in good faith. A straight male athlete would be such a fish out of water as to be socially isolated? NO straight women to canoodle with? And your basis for worrying about that interesting possibility was what? A comment in a student blog that referred to Yale’s reputation (deserved) for being welcoming to gays?</p>
<p>If you want people to believe that you were something other than a provocative ■■■■■ or someone who lives on a different planet than this one (where straight people constitute the vast majority of people everywhere . . . even ballet companies, and gay oppression of straight people is not a common social ill), you have a lot of explaining to do. What led you to believe that you were asking a question that made any sense at all?</p>
<p>magnito, awfully nice of you to just lie down in the middle of the road like that. Let’s see if anyone bothers to try for you :)</p>
<p>If fogfog’s son goes to Penn, maybe he can hang out with this guy: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/851117-real-scoop-social-scene.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/851117-real-scoop-social-scene.html</a>.</p>
<p>Let me address OP’s concern. My take is that a straight man like your son can definitely fit into Yale, or I wouldn’t have applied there.</p>
<p>Yale is a diverse university that can accommodate everybody.</p>
<p>lol, why is a parent concerned with how much tail his kid can get?</p>
<p>if that’s the way some people raise their kids, they should be very thankful their kid can even consider yale</p>
<p>This thread is absolutely absurd.</p>
<p>The video which inspired the Yale Herald article was done by a group of extremely talented students who wanted to do a musical!! </p>
<p>It wasn’t intended to show a proportionate representation of Yale students, as I wrote on the thread about the video.</p>
<p>I’m sure if the Men’s Lacrosse team made a video it would look quite a bit different…and might not include so much awesome singing and dancing. It would show a different perspective on a very diverse community. When I see a musical, I really don’t worry if the cast doesn’t represent the community at large.</p>
<p>President Levin will be so interested to read such respectful, tolerant and thoughtful responses representing Yale and the CC community.
Thank you to everyone who participated. Have a great day.</p>