<p>If you haven’t already, look up Yale’s new admission video. Just google it and you’ll find it. I loved it!</p>
<p>Looks like Yalies watched one too many repeats of the High School Musical DVDs.</p>
<p>IMO–I can’t imagine many guys coming to the conclusion that they would want to attend Yale based on this new admission’s video. It’s beyond corny.</p>
<p>I agree, at first I thought it was a farce, then I thought …really?? Guess the glee kids will love it.</p>
<p>This is really the best that Yale students can come up with? Trite smarm with good production values? It’s like they were all raised on a diet of Free to Be You and Me.</p>
<p>I took it as a gentle spoof of HS Musical. If you know anything about musical theater you know they were deliberately over the top.</p>
<p>I thought it was amusing, clever, and a lot of fun.</p>
<p>And I have no particular ax to grind for Yale, nor have/will my kids ever gone/go there.</p>
<p>Whew, I thought I was the only one who liked it! I read about it in a college newspaper, and there was more information about it. It’s supposed to be campy. The old video is ten years old and not current anymore, so Andrew Johnson, a 2006 graduate who works in the Admissions Office, came up with this. All volunteer, all Yale. And none of my kids went to Yale either. Most students who apply to Yale know plenty about it. I doubt this will sway anybody, but it shows a different side of Yale than you would expect.</p>
<p>Campy is a good description. :)</p>
<p>I can’t believe they think this will make students want to apply to Yale. It’s 16 minute marathon of cheesiness that no one can take seriously. My experience has been that the people who like it aren’t in the generation of students applying to college. Honestly, if I had an app in to Yale I’d probably think about pulling it after I saw this. So my vote: it misses the mark by a longshot.</p>
<p>The Glee comment is ironic though since the second student who sings in the video actually does a song on Glee.</p>
<p>I stopped watching after 5 and a half minutes, and I’m amazed that they could make it last 10 minutes more. I didn’t get the impression that all the stuff they were mentioning was really all that unique.</p>
<p>I prefer Appalachian State’s video.</p>
<p>While it is not an admissions video, did anyone see the video “Reading Season” on the University of Delaware admissions page a while back? They talk about it here:</p>
<p>[UD</a> counselor’s ‘Reading Season’ a hit among admissions officers](<a href=“http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2010/dec/video120709.html]UD”>UD counselor's 'Reading Season' a hit among admissions officers)</p>
<p>Upon seeing it, I no longer wondered why it was taking them months to update my childs status page… I saw that they had more important things to attend to, like producing musical videos ;)</p>
<p>I love the Yale video. I think its target audience will get it. It captures a certain quality that I think is typical of Yale–really liking Yale, but being a bit self-mocking at the same time.</p>
<p>I tried to watch it but I found myself wondering why a school that accepts such a low percentage of applicants does a video. Is it that nothing is real unless it’s on youtube?</p>
<p>^^They made it because they can.</p>
<p>And yes, you aren’t current if you can’t be found on Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter.</p>
<p>@Hunt: That’s what I’m saying though - I AM the target audience and it misses the mark.</p>
<p>I wish some other students would weigh in on this though because now I’m curious to hear what they think.</p>
<p>Here’s a long thread on it from the Yale forum: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/849634-s-why-i-chose-yale-premier-youtube.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/849634-s-why-i-chose-yale-premier-youtube.html</a></p>
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Um, well, I find it difficult to respond to that comment. At least, without being too on-the-nose.</p>
<p>schnp: that whooshing sound you hear…</p>
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<p>hahahaha</p>
<p>hot hot hot…</p>