<p>Ok. We had an odd thing transpire here yesterday. My son came home last night and said, showing us an email… “Why is YALE sending me this email?” It was apparently from one of the Research Centers there (Child Study) launching a generic call for research work, findings and papers for a 2010 conference they are hosting.</p>
<p>My son is a child, 16, an applicant to Yale and other than his 4 years of tutoring city kids and serving as a junior counselor in the summers, could not be remotely linked to this. His expressed interest in writing was actually oncology/possibly pediatric oncology.</p>
<p>My husband (journalist LOL) looked at me and said , “Are Yale applicants names/emails being farmed for other purposes?” How would he even inadvertently appear on such an email list?</p>
<p>I cannot imagine that Yale would ever farm out names and information. My daughter attends Yale and every interaction we have had with that institution has been incredibly professional, ethical, personal and respectful. It is a top-notch university and I have yet to experience the same level of care and service at other schools (I have other children who are in college). </p>
<p>The mystery e-mail is strange and you may want to call the admissions office to see if they can offer any kind of explanation. Again, I’m confident Yale is not selling off names; they are just too classy and don’t need to resort to such actions.</p>
<p>I doubt it. For the application you are given a number it is your app number and if you are accepted that number becomes your student ID number. So that is probably how they sort applicants. I mean with 26K+ applicants, they really don’t have the time to learn names.</p>
<p>Thanks folks. I graduated from Bowdoin and later Harvard. And the vast majority of these top tier schools usually act in a streamlined , professional if not classy way. I did not mean to suggest “sale”. It’s from the University, within the University so sale is not the issue per se. How he ended up receiving it is. We just found it to be very odd. It was addressed in his name to his school email address.</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<p>NATIONAL CONFERENCE AT YALE: JULY 19-21, 2010</p>
<p>The School of the 21st Century (21C) initiative at Yale University invites proposals for presentations at the School of the 21st Century National Conference for school-based,
school-linked child care and family support programs. The conference will be held July 19-21, 2010, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. The theme for the 2010 National Conference is 21st Century Schools: Creating Connections - between school, home and community, in the classroom, between social, emotional and academic learning and beyond the classroom, through service learning.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>The School of the 21st Century - Yale University
The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
310 Prospect Street, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06511-2187
203-432-9944 (office)
203-432-9945 (fax)</p>