<p>I am a philosophy/science person. I don’t do any of the music/arts things.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that all of Yale’s students either 1) play an isntrument, 2) into threate, or 3) into law/political science.</p>
<p>I do not fit any of the 3 criterias above. Is Yale right for me? Will I feel out of place on Campus?</p>
<p>P.S. I am also not a big fan of the High School 2.0 (aka Residential Colleges) thing…</p>
<p>High School 2.0? I don’t know what context you’re speaking of – it was nothing like any HS I can ever even imagine. What are you talking about?? I would suggest you discover what the benefits of the RC system truly are. You probably have some poor information. Probably the same person who said “all of Yale’s students either 1) play an isntrument, 2) into threate, or 3) into law/political science.”</p>
<p>I know you’ve stated you wish to attend Harvard. Like H, Y attracts people who are hungry intellectually and culturally. Do you wish to be in that sort of environment?</p>
<p>H also has a House system. Both Y and H are very similar.</p>
<p>Yale is a place for people to experience new ideas and to engage diverse and astounding people. It’s NOT for people who accept paper thin generalizations as fact.</p>
<p>Since you state that you placed Yale as your second QBridge choice, I’m curious as to why you’d even suffer such a fate as attending New Haven and its poor “high school 2.0” system. You’ve also stated you hate the people in your HS because they are uninteresting and superficial. I guess because they like theatre/music/law/polisci and you don’t,correct?</p>
<p>Maybe Y isn’t for you after all. You’ll probably do yourself a favor by deleting them from further consideration.</p>
<p>If you read the question, you’ll see that I am ASKING whether Yale is right for me. Maybe I was given wrong information, if so, correct them.</p>
<p>The reason why I made this thread is because I am doubtful about what I have been told. If I truly believe that Yale is not right for me, why would I make this thread?</p>
<p>H has a house system for students starting in the sophomore year and you choose your roommates in blocks, so it’s a different system.</p>
<p>Also, don’t stalk me here and take what I said out of context. My feelings about my own HS has nothing to do with my concerns about Yale.</p>
<p>I have to say that you are not only hostile, but also ignorant.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Roger that, Code H. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Code H, it’s up to you to decide if Yale is right for you. I don’t fit many of the given “criteria” for UChicago but I know I’d still thrive there. As for high school 2.0… you’ve got to be kidding me. If that’s what you think, then I understand how Yale could be a bad fit for you - the fact of the matter is that’s a huge part of Yale. Still, I’d be curious as to know what kind of high school you go to. If only my high school had a residential college system. Maybe I’d be more interested in attending. So, T26E4 and I are probably being harsh. But the only way you know if you fit at a college is to look for yourself - and that can mean doing a lot of research.</p>
<p>If, as you claim, you are a “philosophy/science person”, why don’t you use philosophical and scientific analysis to consider important life decisions rather than rumor and caricature? </p>
<p>Anyway, Yale has lots of people who are into music (including lots and lots of singers, more than instrumentalists). But everyone? Nothing like that. I had eight unique roommates in my four years at Yale; only one of those nine people (including me) played an instrument at college. And he did it maybe twice a year, when he desperately wanted to pick up girls. He was a BS/MS in molecular biology, and then MD/PhD, and chairs the oncology department at one of the top five hospitals in the country. Another one HAD been in his high school band (trombone), but never touched an instrument in college.</p>
<p>Yale has lots of people who are into theater, but of the aforementioned nine people I was the only one who did any theater, and that was in my freshman year. I enjoyed GOING to theater, though (as did lots of people). </p>
<p>As for law/political science, probably something like 10-15% of each class winds up going to law school; most of those people don’t study law-related things as undergraduates.</p>
<p>Compared to Harvard – with which you seem to feel comfortable – Yale is different in very small degree, not kind. There are somewhat more people interested in the arts, and participating in them. There are pretty much exactly the same percentage of people who will ultimately go into law/government – if there is a difference, it will be Harvard that has more of them. The Residential College / House systems resemble each other more than any other dorm system on this side of the Atlantic resembles either; sure, there are differences, but if you think Yale’s system is High School 2.0 you will probably think Harvard’s is High School 1.2 (with its emphasis on cliques to form housing blocks). And I shudder to imagine what you think of Oxford and Cambridge.</p>
<p>What you are really questioning are the elements that make Harvard and Yale elite universities. Other elite universities, and universities that aspire to that status, tend to adopt those elements, too. If you don’t value them, there are LOTS of places you can go to college and not be bothered.</p>
<p>What in the world do you mean, High School 2.0? Please explain. </p>
<p>And JHS is right, Harvard’s houses are formed entirely out of cliques, while Yale’s are randomly assembled. But neither school is anything like high school. For goodness’ sakes, they’re the two best universities in the world.</p>
<p>No offense, but we wouldn’t be good roommates.</p>
<p>Code H,
The responses to your postings are very insightful and informative. In one sentence from T2 , I could get a feel of what type of place Yale is. However, for you to post that you’ve been attacked to question if Yale is right for you, that’s just stretching it IMHO. Only you can tell if a school is right for you.</p>
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