That’s how it works for spring athletes as well. My son just moved out of his RC suite into another one on Old Campus. Last year, he just had to move upstairs as his dorm was the one that housed his crew.
Knowledgable parents…
Question: I’m currently in the midst of setting up the Yale payment plan and I’m finding it to be not very user friendly…
So far I’ve had to create three separate levels of user names and passwords to set this thing up. Seems like overkill to me. Or am I doing something wrong?..Oy Vey!!!
This is the Yale page with the info. The links are in the text. http://student-accounts.yale.edu/paying-your-bill/yale-payment-plan.
Here is the link to 2016-2017 Yale Payment Plan (YPP) Enrollment Process http://www.fc.campusoncall.com/ypp/entry.asp
Thanks @solyarena
I think I’ve finally got it all set it just seemed like a redundant process. Just take my $$$ already :-/
Hi Tonymom call Yale payment plan and talk to one of the really kind people there. They will truly help you will not be on hold for half an hour - if you have problems pm me. Their phone number is Tel: 203-432-2700
@tonymom, we don’t use the plan (because of 529s and UTMA, long story), but the regular payment processing is a snap once you’ve set it up, and I think that you also use that for things not covered by the monthly plan. An email arrives which tells me if there’s a balance on DS’s account. Most of the time there isn’t, so I go back to sleep :). When there is a balance due, I log in, see what the charge is, and then set about paying it. The 529 issues a check directly to Yale. I tell Vanguard to move some money from the UTMA to our checking account at BoA. A couple of days later, I log back into Yale’s portal and tell it to withdraw funds from BoA.
It sounds more complicated than it is. Most months there is absolutely nothing to do, some months there is an incidental fee (eg, DS loses his ID), and some months tuition is due.
My daughter is in class of 2020 and we are based in North Cal. I was also considering YPP and like @txnayBob we have Edu IRA and TX guaranteed tuition plans. May be I will pay on demand the first year.
I have used the YPP for both Freshman and Sophomore years. The application process is crazy and not very user friendly. I just see it as an evil I have to endure since I can in no way make a large payment (as it is I can barely eat with the monthly payments I send to Yale each month).
Thanks @Tperry1982 @oldladyandmom and @IxnayBob
Part of the problem was I was thinking ACS and YPP were one in the same…
And, it took a day for my scheduled payments to show up on YPP site.
We have taken the plunge and are now 2 payments in…yippie :-/ nothing makes it feel more real than parting with some cash $$$$$
BTW- is anyone else having a problem “motivating” their students to fill out forms? I’ve printed out schedule of deadlines and plastered it to refrigerator…assume during normal grazing for food he will see it and spring into action :-0
@tonymom, IME, kids start filling out forms when they’re 23 years old (some not even then). Serenity now!
Good luck. 
Are there still forms you have to fill out with a pen and mail? I was surprised three years ago when there were multiple forms and cards to return. Why is that not online? I forget what they were for. One was to the chaplain’s office I think.
DS just filled out and signed paper forms, in duplicate, at one of the more technologically advanced companies. Shoemaker’s children.
My daughter had her annual physical today and brought in a pile of paper forms for FOOT and Yale Health that had to be manually filled out and signed by Doctor. I am surprised there is not an online portal for Yale Health forms to be uploaded. The FOOT forms can be scanned and emailed, but the Yale health forms must be snail mailed.
She also had the meningitis B shot (1 of 2) which is now recommended according to the forms.
@Faulkner1897
And my son gets do do some extra fun steps being varsity athlete…EKG…whole other Yale health hoopla to consider there :-/
Some Yale departments are pretty archaic as far as IT services go. I wish the administration would put some thought into it. In some areas, they’re great (admissions dept, e.g.). The Admissions user interface for volunteer alumni interviewers is top notch and the envy of many other schools.
That contrasts with some other departments’ IT/online ability, which are very 1990s in feel and functionality.
@Faulkner1897 In many of these outdoors programs (I’m sure FOOT is no exception), the trip leaders are required to carry the health forms with them for the duration of the trip in case of a medical emergency in the field – hence the paper forms. They probably scan one copy for the office and the original goes with the trip leader(s).
I have a question. Do any of your kids have issues returning home to their local friends? My daughter has always had a very large and loyal group of friends. She seems to be struggling with reconnecting with them since returning home. She doesn’t have patience with things they say and do and she is getting what seems like being homesick for a different kind of friend that she found at school. I remember missing my friends when I came home for summer but this is different. She has spent more of her summer in her room, alone watching Gilmore Girls than she has spent with any of her group. She says its because her friends don’t get her jokes and she hates talking about school with them because its not the same experience as theirs and she doesn’t feel comfortable explaining why. She fears it will just come off as pretentious. Just curious if this is common.
@Faulkner1897 … About 30 minutes after FOOT started, but before they left the campus, my son phoned and asked iif I had the medical forms. I DID have copies, and walked them over. I think I saved the trip. They seem important.
The good thing about the FOOT forms is that they must be emailed, so this means that the student will have a copy on their phone as a back up. The FOOT leaders also request for the student to bring a hard copy of the forms with them.
Just went back and read the posts about FOOT and when parents should leave campus after move-in. Seems like I would be pretty safe leaving on Saturday night. My daughter is a minimalist and does not want to bring a bunch of extraneous stuff, and in this day and age anything and everything that she needs after move in can be ordered on Amazon and shipped.
@Memmsmom , yes and no re issues with local friends. DS is no longer with his 2 year HS GF, so that cut the local crowd somewhat, and his HS best friend attends Dartmouth, and with their crazy schedule he hardly ever sees him at home anymore, although he does visit Yale. Some of his HS friends have moved up in compatibility, some down, and a couple have been dropped altogether, but overall they seem to enjoy being together. Most of the kids are going to or have already headed off for internships, travel, study, etc.; it might have been different if they thought they’d have to spend the whole summer together.
You can’t expect to be as close and “like-minded” when you’re no longer spending most of the year with each other.
Did your D’s friends attend schools with widely different vibe to Yale? DS did notice a change, not necessarily for the better, in some kids who had been “good” students but might not have been ready for the additional freedom of being away at college.
ETA: my son also was a bit disappointed when he first came home during freshman year, when he realized that his parents, siblings, and friends weren’t as interesting as his Yale classmates (although he would never have said that, I inferred it). I took that as a sign that he was at a school that was a good fit.