Here is an article on the quads. No decision yet…
Love this story and can’t wait to hear what they decide!
Thanks to all who suggested Mory’s! I can attest to a wonderful spot filled with rich traditions and history. And if you can catch one of the Yale groups that perform there live, we caught SE, your night will be complete 
@tonymom … And you just never know who you will run into there. 
Great article on the quads in the NYT - includes their essays! The article mentions college confidential too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/wade-quadruplets-harvard-yale.html
“In a clever stroke, the four brothers wrote essays that can be read separately, yet are meant to be read together, like four pieces of a puzzle. Each piece is charming and winning on its own, but together, they are even better, and college admissions officers everywhere seemed to agree and were unwilling to pull them apart”.
“So far, Yale has given them the best financial aid deal, they said, and has assiduously courted them, offering to fly them to New Haven to visit the campus, something they could not afford to do before they were accepted. (Yale admitted another set of African-American quadruplets, two boys and two girls, in 2010.)”
Any opinions on taking on-line Yale courses? My son wants to take one this summer but it seems such a waste to miss out on the real “in class” thing.
Ok, I’m coming on to gripe since this is my “safe space”. My D, who we all know is a junior, has not had to navigate the Yale Health Service until this week. She has a minor problem with her ear, it has excessive hard wax buildup that necessitates a cleaning by medical personnel. When her ears clog up, her balance and hearing is off. After some bad experiences earlier in life, she can anticipate when it is getting to the point that it needs medical intervention. She texted me on Monday to tell me she needed a cleaning badly. I looked up the number for the ENT at Yale Health and told her to call them. They told her she needed to talk to her assigned primary doctor (didn’t even know she had one at Yale Health). Her assigned doctor’s advice was to put drops in it and then call them again in a couple of days. NOT!! The wetness of the drops makes it worse (think that is a lesson we learned when she was 15). Thank goodness we have Federal BCBS which can be used anywhere, so I went to plan B which was to get her ENT here to refer us to a practitioner in New Haven. He referred her to one in Hamden, she went yesterday, and all is well. I’m just so frustrated with the Yale Health Plan and am wondering if they are like the Post Office, somewhere you avoid at all costs? I haven’t seen much discussion of them. Maybe we all have relatively healthy kids?
TPerry1982, I think you hit the nail on the head unfortunately - while not as bad as the Yale Post Office, Yale Health is pretty much the only other negative thing about Yale in my daughter’s experience.
As a parent I find the Yale insurance setup irritating also. You have to choose between paying for the Yale supplemental insurance, which is significantly more expensive than what my employer offers and can only be used at Yale (so, no coverage while at home except in emergencies), and using your own insurance, which means considerable hassles as the specialty care practitioners at Yale Health don’t seem to be covered on any insurance other than the Yale plan.
Basically it seems set up to make things difficult for those who decide not to pay for the Yale insurance.
@canoe2015 - I agree. Luckily we can opt out of the supplemental insurance because we can prove that her hospitalization is covered by our plan - an option most students don’t have. The “insurance” that comes as part of tuition for routine matters is what gives access to the Yale Health Plan. When I was there 78-82, I remember the plan being so much more accessible. I even had minor surgery right there in the center (well the old facility). Even when she had the flu really badly a few months back, the hours of the center were not conducive to her schedule and she just rode it out based on medical advise from home. Besides the bad advice about her ear they gave her without even bringing her in for an exam, the whole process seemed a little non-consumer friendly. Like you said, Yale is a great place and I guess the two areas where they have less than stellar marks - health center and post office - are not parts of Yale that students must deal with on a daily basis.
@Tperry1982 My daughter had an ear infection that was in the ear canal and not the drum. She does not have a normal palate so she cant clear her ears like normal people. She gets the same deal with lost equilibrium and they told her to take psudafed and that she just had a cold. I drove an hour out there and an hour back for a 10 min apt with her regular doctor so that she could get antibiotics and actually clear up the infection.
I will say though that when she had the flu- they diagnosed it with a test and sent her home with a note to get out of class. Granted this was after she fell asleep in the waiting room and nearly passed out on the table. She had been there for over an hour.
She dreads going there- its an emergency thing only. You would think that with the hospital right there that they would be better suited to handle these things. Its nuts.
DS had a small cut on his hand that they should have been able to glue. They sent him to the ER. Our insurance covered it, but it became a much bigger deal than it needed to be.
Yale Health is part of my trio of Yale disappointments: Post Office, Dining Halls (past few years), and Yale Health.
Not too many complaints regarding the Dining Hall for my D, even though she is a strict vegetarian. So I just have two!!
@Memmsmom @canoe2015 @IxnayBob - thanks. I knew I could count on my fellow Yale parents to have have a listening ear. I told my D today that this time next month she will be home!! I can’t wait.
DS went from loving the food the year before he matriculated, to being okay about it, to being strongly negative. The change coincided with Yale’s budget-driven move to “cook centrally, reheat locally.” And, quelle surprise, I recently read that Yale is concerned about how many kids are opting for off-campus apartments.
Silver lining: DS is learning how to cook in his apartment kitchen, and enjoying it.
Apparently the dining halls serve something called “Hanoi fried cape shark”. It’s frequently mocked in the Facebook group called “Yale Memes for Special Snowflake Teens”, but it sounds like some people like it.
Maybe its the meat that’s tasteless. Since my kid eats salads and pasta, I guess there’s not much wrong there. Don’t get me wrong, she is used to well seasoned food, but she just rushes through meals or gets something vegan from GHeav on Broadway. They go out a lot for Thai food. Sometimes the cook will put something aside for her since he knows what she eats.
On the off campus living - the one suitemate that moved off campus junior year is moving back on for senior year. Said being off campus was too isolating and she missed having access to the dining hall.
I should mention that “off campus” for DS is on Chapel Street, so it’s not really OFF campus.
Should I warn my son about the “Dreaded Veal Patty”? Whenever we saw that on the menu, we knew we were going to be making a Yorkside run later. Its funny, I remember the worst food always being something “fancy” beyond the reach of the dining hall cooking talent or recipe file. Spaghetti night was always popular. Lot’s of seconds and thirds served.
Yale Health is a staff model HMO. If you choose to decline their coverage because it is cheaper to keep your kid on the family plan, then only the most limited coverage offered to all students by nature of enrollment is covered. For example, seeing the PCP for your cough is covered but if they order a chest x-ray and you have private insurance you will have a coverage issue. Same thing if you want to see an ENT or ophthalmologist. This is ok if you understand it but you need to know to get specialty care outside of Yale Health if recommended at either Yale-New Haven hospital or a private practice. I learned this when I had DS get the first part of an expensive three series vaccine at Yale health that was surprisingly not covered by my BC/BS there but covered and completed at nearly any other medical office.
Ok feel really stupid asking this but since we just got our bill via email…
Have any other “continuing student” families received any notification of FA award? Starting to feel nervous here. I remember when my son was incoming Frosh the FA person said they do continuing students awards first THEN do Frosh. But now I’m seeing incoming Frosh talking about their FA award packages…
I’m confused…not that this is an unusul state of being as a mom