@Shoremom22 - welcome to the family!! Boola Boola!!!
The normal student health services are covered by tuition. The additional they charge for is usually for hospitalization. For students whose home insurance does not travel, like an HMO that only pays for specific hospitals, they would have to get the extra. You have to prove to the school that they have insurance that will cover them in New Haven. Since I have Federal health benefits, my kid can go anywhere so I opted out.
If she needed specialty medicine like allergist, dermatologist, etc that the school does not cover, she can use her Blue Cross Blue Shield and find any doctor in New Haven.
This is different for dental care. My dental is a government sponsored HMO. When she broke her tooth, it was cheaper to bring her home for care than to send her to a full pay dentist up there. One of the benefits of being only 5 hours away from New Haven.
For my child’s specialty prescriptions for allergies and skin care, I just took her to her doc at home in August and explained she was going away to college. They did a year’s worth of refills. I just picked them up here each month and mailed them. When she needed emergency allergy meds for the beginning of the spring season, her doctor here called a prescription directly to the RiteAid near the campus and she picked it up within the hour.
Hi all I was trying to plan for this summer to drop off our sophomore to be and was wondering if others planned on spending much time there when dropping off in the upper years?? Is there anything for parents in the upper years that is scheduled? we’ll have fun anyway and help get things set up again like last year but was just wondering if there was anything I should plan to book around.
thanks!
Hi, everyone! I also need some advice from you more-experienced parents. We live in the midwest and decided to fly to New Haven and help our freshman move out this past week. Our son doesn’t have much clothes or other stuff, so we booked on Southwest Airlines (which allows two suitcases per person) and figured it would be easy to pack everything he owns into six suitcases. We even thought we’d have extra space. Boy, were we WRONG! Somehow he had accumulated a lot more stuff than we had anticipated, and the move was an unbelievable hassle. We stuffed our six suitcases, stuffed the two boxes he was allowed for Pierson storage, put a couple of things in his new Pierson room, and ended up leaving a decent amount of inexpensive stuff behind. Plus, all three of us were completely worn out from trying to pack up in one afternoon. (I was so jealous of the east coast families who just loaded up their family minivans and drove home!) Since we underestimated how much stuff our son had, we had not investigated the College Storage business there on campus that I saw some students using. Other families said they had rented storage units in New Haven for the summer. To those of you parents that aren’t within driving distance (we are 25 hours away)… how do you handle the summer move home?
Dorm Room Movers. Though we are only 5 hours away, no way I was lugging all her winter stuff and linens home for the summer just to take it back. They came, whisked it away and will bring it back on the appointed date in August. Easy Peasy.
bulldogmom–We did exactly what you did–Southwest, suitcases, boxes stored in residential college, etc. At the end he actually shipped some boxes home as well (and the postage costs were less than rented storage in New Haven would be!) In future years we made a point whenever we flew there (at least once a year for a concert) we’d bring one empty suitcase along and fill it with whatever he didn’t need there anymore so there would be less at the end of the year. Maybe helped a little!
DS had wanted to bring a friend’s bike home to store it. Even without the bike, our large SUV was packed to the roof.
@buldogmom we did almost the same as @Tperry1982. I have NO idea what my S and his suitemates did for moving out, but they did it as a goup. They found a storage and moved out together. I only paid for his return and he fleu back home with no worries:-)
Welcome to all the new parents! I’m responding to some questions from a couple of days ago, but wanted to point out a couple of useful sites. For those interesed in finding out what forms are due when, as well as lots of other information, go to yalecollege.yale.edu. Choose the for parents section and select freshman information, and you will have links to important dates and deadlines, forms, etc. As for coverage at Yale Health, here is the best simple summary of what is covered for waived and non-waived students: yalehealth.yale.edu/node/400/attachment. It’s a little out of date in that I believe there is now some coverage for x-rays for waived students at YH. And for those seeking specialty care for waived students, Yale Medical Group is an excellent multispecialty practice owned by Yale-New Haven Hospital and staffed by Yale School of Medicine faculty. You should be able to find any specialist you need there, easily accessible on foot or by Yale Shuttle. Google the type of specialist you want plus YMG and you should find a page with names of doctors, CV’s, and areas of interest. Some specialties have longer waits for new patients than others, so plan ahead when possible.
@Tperry1982: I am liking the idea of Dorm Room Movers a lot, and I’m glad to know you found them reliable. No way am I going through this craziness again. @Clarimom, your idea of bringing stuff home from visits makes total sense, too. I think that’s why he ended up with so much stuff… every time we visited, we brought more stuff to school, but then never took anything home with us. So our son ended up with everything he owned in New Haven!
@bulldogmom,
Ugh, DD left so much stuff behind in frosh year to be thrown or given away. She took much less in soph yr. We use All College Storage for shipping and or storage and SWA with 2 suitcases and the allowable res college space. (I priced out a few different options and All College Storage was the cheapest). This year, she kept asking around and found students with res college space who were not going to use their space, so didn’t have to throw away or give away anything!
@oldladyandmom Not much to do when you move your sophomore back. As an upperclassman, you can get into the dorms on an appointed day, which is earlier than freshmen move-in. We always moved in on the appointed date (although dining halls are often not open then) to avoid being in New Haven during the weekend that the freshmen move in.
Question for parents who’ve had students travel abroad for internships. My S will be traveling to Australia for 2 months and I was wondering what to do with Health Insurance. I’m going to have him called the career office and ask but I was wondering if anybody knew. BTW, he didn’t have yale health. Any suggestions will be appreciated:-)
@Saona63 My child doesn’t have Yale Health either. We decided to buy the international health insurance policy that was offered with the internship. It was just a couple hundred dollars and saved me worrying about insurance coverage while overseas. The internship is this summer so haven’t “used it” yet.
@buldogmom I’m late in replying and students have moved out by now, but just wanted to put in a plug for being careful about what’s stored in the residential college storage area. After freshman year, my child stored boxes in the residential college basement. Unfortunately the corner with our boxes flooded and we lost a significant amount of stuff, including text books and linens/coats. Our stuff bore the brunt of the flooding, but it might be good practice to put things in plastic and then in the boxes. If we had it to do over again, we would have brought home the textbooks and packed the linens/coats in plastic first (and taken out insurance!).
@vtclover WOW! Such a good idea to wrap things in plastic!! Of course, the bedding and coats are exactly what we put in the boxes, too. We were scrambling so much that damage never crossed my mind. Next year we’ll definitely do things differently. @YoHoYoHo I will check out All College Storage, too–thank you for the recommendation!
Anyone has any info on Yale yield this year?
@YaleDad2019, I don’t know about the yield in any direct way. I was surprised by how many were apparently taken off the wait list, which would probably indicate lowish yield, but there are probably a hundred reasons why I shouldn’t extrapolate.
Hi here’s some numbers on applications to admits, and placement on waitlist http://news.yale.edu/2015/04/01/students-celebrate-admission-class-2019 but i can’t find anything else specific yet about the yield yet or on coming off the waitlist…
@IxnayBob Thanks, I am afraid that maybe the case, and just curious about it since many schools have already released yield rates