Louis’ Lunch sounds great! That link reminded me of a NYC restaurant where I’ve seen customers walk out due to their menu restrictions. They only serve one main dish and do not entertain requests for adjustments such as butter with their bread. Their solitary focus makes for a delicious meal. Le Plat Principal - Le Relais De Venise
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The funny thing is most of the ones we are talking about have been around forever.
Sherkaan, though, is representative of the “new” New Haven food scene (a little quick research suggests it opened in 2019). And that has really expanded out the quality options from back in the day.
Yeah, not that Yale really needed a marketing boost, but news of the vastly improved food scene has probably not yet percolated fully through the college comparison universe.
With our focus on the old standbys we haven’t really scratched the surface of the new stuff, but this article is a good example of what is going on these days:
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Current Yale students from our HS rave about the on campus dining options there - and their parents say it better be that good for the money they are paying 
D24 follows some bloggers whose content is all about what they eat at Yale. Nice to know they are “known” for having great food also!
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Yes, the residential college system is ludicrously expensive to operate, and one of the reasons why is each college has a dining hall AND a buttery, and then there is also Commons, a bunch of cafes, and so on.
So as they say, at least you can see where the money went . . . .
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So on the portal, Yale has an area where you can add supplemental information. My son was nominated about a month ago for a national award. He was notified that he’s a finalist and had his finalist interview. It could be a couple weeks before he finds out if he gets the award, they are only giving one award. Should he notify Yale that he is a finalist for a national award? It seems like national awards are important to the more selective schools. There was no way to include this in his application because he didn’t realize people had nominated him for the award until late winter. It is for GLSEN’s Respect Awards, Advocate of the Year. TIA.
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Yes you should.
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Yes. I agree with MomofDS.
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Congratulations to your son for being selected as a finalist. That’s quite an accomplishment!
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Go for it, why not?
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Vanderbilt also has the resudential college system and all ubdergraduate students need to live on campus for all 4 years.
So I am not an expert on Vanderbilt’s system but I do not believe it works like the Yale system. In the Yale system, every first-year is assigned to a residential college and that remains their residential college for all four years, even if they live off campus. There are now 14 residential colleges, and to give an idea of why that is so expensive, that means 14 residential college dining halls, plus Commons which is not assigned to a particular residential college, so 15 total for about 6600 undergrads.
As I understand the Vanderbilt system, you start in one of the first-year houses, and then the 5 residential colleges are only one option for upper class students, with there also being traditional housing and living-learning communities. It appears there are 3 residential dining halls plus Commons. so 4 total for about 7150 undergrads.
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how many of ya’ll here have got verification request to IDOC from Yale. Last year this topic was talked about a lot at this time specifically.
I did not get one yet, not even from any college except columbia which was automatically marked as received and then everything dissapeared
I did not get an email or anything but I saw documents missing in the finan aid list and emailed financial aid asking if I should resubmit them via Idoc, they checked and told me they were fine and took the documents off the list. Not sure if that counts.
What did you mean? and what did it mean last year?
They all mentioned certain forms, and the wordings on the forms but there is no way for me to check that since I submitted all pending on Idoc long ago 
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Plus 14 Heads (run the residential college, almost always a tenured professor), 14 academic Deans (usually junior faculty), their staff, 2-4 resident fellows, libraries, music rooms, college sponsored seminars (David Geffen taught a seminar on the entertainment industry at my college which was always over subscribed, to be expected with guest lecturers like Neil Young, Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, etc…), intramural sports teams, theater productions, music groups… the list goes on. The only system close is Harvard’s House system, except you are not put into a House until sophomore year, and maybe Rice’s (not so familiar with them).
This is truly what makes the Yale experience unique. It was wonderful as a parent to know that my kid was so well taken care of and had so many opportunities outside of the classroom. There are also trips taken by the colleges
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This is really interesting. Does this mean they have to have same roommates all four years? How are you so knowledgeable in everything about all the colleges? This college apps season would have been hard without your guidance.
No, you enter the housing lottery for your college with whomever you want after the first year.
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Rice also has a four-year system where you are assigned as first-year to one of the 11 colleges, and you keep your association for life (ahem). They also have what I believe they call a faculty Magister who lives in an adjacent house, intramurals based on the colleges, courses in the colleges, a commons with dining and events (although I think the dining is connected to the servery system, which I do not fully understand), and so on.
So in that sense I think Rice and Yale are closest in terms of having an Oxford-style four-year/lifetime residential college system.
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Oh ok. I was thinking it would be bad if you are stuck with the roommate you did not want to be with.
Then what is the advantage of residential system if you do not have the same person all four years?