what is the worst thing about yale

Bulldog2017
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 05:07:50 +0000

The residential college system is great, but it can also be a little detrimental - something I didn’t realize before I committed. The colleges are great, and I totally love my college, but the whole system limits the number of people you come in contact with regularly. I really love my college, but I don’t have as many friends in other colleges as my friends at other universities have outside their own dorm. Additionally, I’ll be living with the same 100 people for the next four years, instead of switching things up every year and only living with 5 or 6 of the same people as my friends at other universities with regular dorms would. On top of that, you can only live with some combination of 50 people in your class, in your college, and of your same gender sophomore year. You can switch colleges, but as I said before, the vast majority of my friends are in my college. If you don’t happen to like (m)any of those 50 people and you don’t have a group of friends all in another college, you’re kind of screwed.

Other than that, the walk up Science Hill in the winter is pretty sucky.

The college system is FANTASTIC in most respects, and I’m only posting this because it’s something I didn’t see before I made my decision. Overall, I don’t think it would have affected my decision, but it might affect yours.