@guysbeingdudes - If you are a high school student, then kudos for your satirical writing skills! Any college would be lucky to have a student like you who can so incisively skewer literal minded, humorless, overly-sincere, posts on CC. “Chance Me” threads are especially easy targets. But the intentions of folks posting above (many of whom, like me, have first hand knowledge of Yale) are good because they try to inject some facts into the often confusing and even misleading discussions found on these threads. While there is no fact checking on CC, applicants like @SellHill assume that people who respond to their posts want to provide information that will be helpful. So, the best piece of advice I can give @Sellhill, or any other applicant to Yale, is to really learn, in as much granular detail as possible, about the academic and non-academic aspects of Yale that interest them to ensure that they are a good “fit” for Yale; to convey that familiarity and conviction to the AOs in their short answer responses and essays; and to explain, through compelling writing and a coherent narrative, how the applicant’s academic and non-academic background will contribute to the Yale community.