<p>Saw this in the Harvard thread and thought I’d try it out here. </p>
<p>Loctaion/weather/people/food/classes/housing - anything!</p>
<p>Weather. </p>
<p>And accessibility. New Haven is kind of a pain to get to, especially form the West Coast.</p>
<p>Make clones of it so that more talented students could go there. Of course, you would need hundreds of billions of dollars to do that, since Yale is unlike any other university in the world.</p>
<p>Location/weather/people/food/classes/housing are the last things I would change about Yale. I guess you could make the food five-stars instead of four; see [Yale</a> Daily News - Four stars for Berkeley food](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/5963]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/5963)</p>
<p>inkspill, agree on access. We’re in Idaho, which means often we have to go the west coast before we go east. It looks like NY area air traffic reforms take effect this week, forcing airlines to allow passengers to disembark and get food if stranded on the tarmac for too long. Maybe this will improve transportation for western students.</p>
<p>location…if it was in Cali or oregon that would be awesome!</p>
<p>ew! Yale @ West Coast! i think that part of what makes Yale special is its east coast aspect, as well as its distance from both NYC and Boston (my two favorite cities in the world - of course, NYC is No 1 and Boston No 2)</p>
<p>Relocate it to Baghdad - I hear the weathers great!</p>
<p>Yale in NYC = perfect</p>
<p>Being located in Manhattan completely kills most campus social and intellectual life relative to colleges in smaller, more college-oriented cities like Ann Arbor, New Haven, Cambridge or Chapel Hill. I’ve spent a lot of time going to classes and partying (on and off campus) with students at NYU, Columbia and other campuses in NYC while living there. It depends on what you prefer, of course, but there are enormous differences due to the fact people spend a lot more time traveling great distances on the subway and there is less of an actual “campus” space to call your own. The enrollment size and population density is also a factor in determining the quality of interaction between people, and both Columbia and NYU are quite large. Visit a few campuses for 2-3 days each, including a weekend day, and stay overnight, to see what I mean. I’m not criticizing, I’m just saying that you shouldn’t take things for granted without experiencing them for yourself.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever seen New Haven compared w/ Ann Arbor, Cambridge, or Chapel Hill. New Haven has come a long way since the mid-80s, but what makes Yale special is definitely not the Gateway to New England (a city hat has never been mistaken as the quintessential college town…).</p>
<p>A more enclosed campus, maybe? I love Yale, but I sort of wish it was more contained.</p>
<p>Columbia has an enclosed campus… I would love to see Yale in Morningside…</p>
<p>It’s just my 2 cents anyway… Everything on this thread is POINTLESS anyway… at least NYC is more realistic than Baghdad</p>
<p>Perhaps he meant Baghdad by the Bay, my lovely San Francisco? :)</p>