<p>Congrats on the acceptance. Well done!</p>
<p> YALE MED- Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>Thanks, folks. She’s pretty stoked. 
I read her my kidney/deep-discount man-whore post and she did chuckle …but then said that I couldn’t talk to her about “practicalities” for a couple of days. Fair enough. </p>
<p>“Does she want to go to Yale?” Yes. It was a clear #1 after her interview week-end. Will that “want to” be enough after all the numbers are in? Time will tell.</p>
<p>It’s hard to imagine in what universe loans to go to medical school at Yale would not be a good investment. My brother took out close to $120,000 in loans (and of course will pay back a lot more than that once it’s all said and done) to go to Yale law school and he would say (and I would agree) that in terms of career opportunites, it has been worth every dollar.</p>
<p>Curm-
it was her clear #1 and she is in.</p>
<p>You can look at those numbers all you want.</p>
<p>And then you best order up a Yale med school sweatshirt, it will be the only shirt you will be wearing for the next 4 or 10 or 20 years!!!</p>
<p>I am still hopping around so I can just imagine how totally stoked she is as are you! This is better than state champs! Remember how good that felt!!!</p>
<p>YALE MED!!!</p>
<p>Heck, I want to go buy the sweatshirt!</p>
<p>CONGRATS CONGRATS! </p>
<p>No matter where she ends up she will do fantastic, and you can pack up her stuff and haul it off to that TX med school BUT she will be waiting on ya at YALE!!!</p>
<p>yale</p>
<p>kat</p>
<p><kat, shush.=“” not=“” so=“” loud.=“” the=“” kid=“” might=“” hear=“” you.;)=“”></kat,></p>
<p>and Roshke, jeebus. :eek:</p>
<p>LOL @ kat and her enthusiasm!</p>
<p>I wonder if the higher ups at Yale have seen this thread and wondered what the heck? All that talk about selling body parts , kidneys and “others” at a discount and all!</p>
<p>How did I miss this great news buried in a thread about weather?</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS!!! Wow, YALE MED SCHOOL!!! Somehow many of us who watched as she made her undergrad decisions feel like we know the Mudgette…</p>
<p>Curm – FANTASTIC news! My very very warmest congratulations to the whole family. But you know what this means, right? Next fall we expect an account of you moving your daughter to New Haven. I mean, by now it’s a CC tradition. BTW I was at Yale a few weekends ago. Never before have I felt like such a peasant :)</p>
<p>Wow!</p>
<p>That is so wonderful. Congrats to all the family.</p>
<p>Major congrats to your daughter.</p>
<p>curm,
I am also a “follower” from 4 years ago and want to send a giant shout-out to you and mudgette! YALE MED! Simply superb!</p>
<p>YALE! Move of evilrobot, Mudgette, and clever day Curm, have now firmly landed as epic CC sagas! Legends in their own time!
YALE- wow! f
So, write the book now-you know you have one in you!
Drink some everclear, but watch out with only one kidney that could prove fatal.</p>
<p>Woot woot woot! Congratulations to you and your daughter Mudge!!</p>
<p>I do have to remind everybody that mom and D were the ones insisting she could get anywhere she wanted to go from Rhodes while dear old Dad needed convincing that turning down Yale UG was a smart idea. I’ve even expressed some recurring doubts about her UG choice on cc along the way (as far as admissions to top med schools as she wants “Academic Medicine”, the one area where med school school pedigree is highly valued). Again , I have under-estimated my kid. The congrats are all hers and I have passed them along. </p>
<p>She’s put herself exactly where she wants to be - deciding between 4 great med schools (pm me for a list ;)) and now her #1, too. And she’s doing it with no educational debt and an IOU from me that she will cash in for med school. </p>
<p>It’s all about having choices. And she’s earned herself some good ones.</p>
<p>adding my congratulations too!!! WOW!</p>
<p>Most awesome news!!!</p>
<p>Given all the tales we’ve heard over the years, this news ought to be at the top of the discussion home page!
Congrats to all!</p>
<p>And for those of us who were not here four (?) years ago, what is the lesson? </p>
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<p>Mudgette turned down Yale for a full-ride at Rhodes. It was not an easy choice, but it made sense. In hindsight, it made CENTS (LOTS of them)!! </p>
<p>There is often spirited debate on CC regarding merit at LACs vs. ivy at full pay (or even at EFC).</p>
<p>Debate isn’t just merit at LAC’s vs Ivy…it’s substantial Merit somewhere other than Ivy/TOP LAC. Some recent ones choosing Merit over HYPSM were Michigan and UGA.</p>
<p>Happens every year. Just like the swallows to Cap. </p>
<p>We should be seeing these threads soon. And we will send all of them to Curm’s d’s story on the pre-med thread (just like we send the parents of high performing kids who don’t want to choose a realistic safety to Andison’s story…)</p>