<p>I’m wondering how much interaction occurs between Yale’s various schools and departments, at all levels of education. Do YLS mostly know other law students? Do undergrads interact with grad students? Do the grad arts/english/history students mingle with all the other souls wandering on campus? Perhaps certain departments/schools are more cohesive with the rest of the University. Basically, how fragmented is Yale?</p>
<p>I think the real question is, how much of a chance does a med/law student have at dating some of those fine Yale undergrads ;)</p>
<p>There is some intermingling between grad students and undergrads, but it’s limited because most grad students live off campus. It would probably be easiest for law students and graduate school of arts and sciences students to meet undergrads because their facilities are on central campus where the undergraduates can usually be found. Med/Divinity/Forestry/SOM students are further removed from the center of campus and are more likely to get caught up in their own world.</p>
<p>As far as the second part of your question, fine Yale undergrads? Where did you get that notion? I know looks aren’t everything, but I must be sitting in the wrong student section at the football games and studying at the wrong undergraduate library. :)</p>
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<p>I think you are :)</p>
<p>Most of the prof school/undergrad mingling I remember were couples that were involved already (or at least knew each other) before one started law or med school (or drama school in several cases of people I knew). There was definitely also fraternization between PhD students and undergraduates, and I’m sure there still is.</p>
<p>For the most part, there are no actual barriers, other than the obvious one that TAs are not supposed to sleep with students who take the class in which they are working, and that’s a big way for grad students to meet undergrads. There are probably some subtler, but equally effective psychological barriers, however. At least where I went to law school – which was about as similar to Yale as it’s possible to be – there was surprisingly little dating of undergraduates. Law school was very intense, and people who had come straight out of college, like me, felt a lot of pressure to put college behind them. (And people who had been out of college a while had little interest in revisiting the experience.) And after you spent some time in law school, undergraduates seemed really callow, unfocused, immature, while I am certain that undergraduates saw law students as dour, un-chill, too intense. Plenty of my classmates had been undergraduates at the same university, members of fraternities (or sororities), etc., with lots of connections, and I don’t remember a single one of them dating undergraduates on a regular basis. I had no trouble meeting undergraduate women – my sister was an undergraduate at the same university – but for the most part they were off my romantic radar. </p>
<p>In addition, no one needed to date undergraduates. There were plenty of ways to meet women and men who were more on the same wavelength we were. I know a few people who dated undergraduates seriously while they were in law school or med school, but only a few, and in many of the cases there was always tension involved because of the different emotional places the parties were in. It was was a little bit like dating between college students and high school students: lots of pre-existing couples continue (and lots don’t, too), but very few new relationships start, or get serious if they do.</p>
<p>So . . . if you are going to be starting law school or medical school soon, I predict that you will be a lot less interested in dating undergraduates than you are now.</p>
<p>Since you just finished your fr year at Cal, it seems premature to worry about who you’re going to date in Y Law/Med, perhaps worry about being admitted first.</p>
<p>entomom! Your arrogance is disturbing. Unfortunately it seems CC is rife with senior members who are out “catch” students to display… “the truth”. I see this happen all the time, and I find it hilarious. Yale law seems nice but this post was not about me. I was spending time with a close relative last week, who will be attending Yale post undergrad in the Fall. We were talking about the world of dating, since she’s still single. In the future, if your comments are based on unfounded assumptions, try to be less rude.</p>
<p>Everyone else, thanks for your comments</p>
<p>One of the things that makes CC work is assuring that members post truthfully and consistently. Believe me, it is not a stretch for an UG to be concerned about details on grad/law/med school, I’ve seen HS students ask such questions. Everyone’s posting history is open for all to see and is assumed to be about that member, so it is important to state when posting for someone else. </p>
<p>I’m sorry you have a problem with this, but the alternative would result in a CC which is substantially less helpful and reliable.</p>
<p>I guess it’s possible if your relative is lesbian, but otherwise…a female law/med/grad student at ANY school is EXTREMELY unlikely to be interested in dating undergrads.</p>
<p>jonri, that’s really not for you to know or care about</p>
<p>caltanner: jonri offered an opinion that i’ve known to be true. Why the skepticism on jonri’s observation? The remark about your friend’s sexual orientation is also an observation, not a prediction or a guess. No need to be offended.</p>
<p>I also concur. The only post-grad women I knew that dated undergrads were lesbian. Straight post grad women I knew never dated undergrad guys it seemed. This isn’t 100% science of course but just a casual observation.</p>