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<p>This is accurate. Yale’s image in the movies and the mass media may be ‘stuffy and pretentious’ but the reality is quite different. Yes there’s magnificent old architecture (along with many modern landmarks) but people at Yale in every department I know go out of their way to emphasize the new, the innovative, the non-traditional. In fact, in my view they do this to a fault. Too much focus on being ‘cutting edge’ --but maybe that’s just me and my own bias responding. And the student body is completely free of anything remotely like snobbery or elitism. That’s about the only thing that *could *ostracize you there.</p>