I googled “college student care package” and was impressed at the variety of what came up. Gave me some ideas…
Earlier I asked about Yale health coverage for our D in PhD program. We decided to accept Yale health since cost is covered for her with her program so no cost to us. And because it doesn’t make much difference to cost we are leaving her on our family plan for one last year which I assume will be secondary. Any hints to how seamless this is? She wants to get flu shot at target for the gift card and thinks shot is free. I don’t she really gets how it works and that it is free because she has insurance. My understanding that Yale is HMO style and won’t cover it there. Will it automatically move on to her BCBS or are there more steps (my gut feeling).
It’s been awhile since I’ve dealt with this but there wasn’t all the electronic filing then. I’ve warned her not assume it’s free and to ask before she gets the shot.
Anyone else using Yale health as primary and home insurance as other?
My parents and I paid $7,700 freshmen year tuition room and board, and they got a choice of lobster or filet mignon for parents’ weekend. I don’t think those have been on the menu for many years. On the other hand, I visited S this past weekend and was pleasantly surprised by the upgrades to the dining hall in terms of choices and quality of food. Hope everyone that is going has a great time. The campus is beautiful this time of year.
Not to rekindle a very contentious debate but curiousif other Yale parents have had the experience of being on the end of folks questioning the “culture” at Yale in light of the recent spotlight from SCOTUS hearings?
I’ve assured friends and family that from what I’ve heard from my son, Yale is a very typical college campus and should not be defined by what reputation it may or may not have had over 30years ago…
Maybe I’m being naive but I don’t see Yale being particularly out of control as far as a party school…
I went to (a different) college in the same time frame (early 80s). Lots of things were very different then. Are people really making assumptions based on things that happened 30 years ago? I figured you were talking about the protests and so on (my daughter was at Yale during the “Halloween Debacle.”
Nope…other adults and co-workers who know my son goes to Yale.
A lot of stuff was OK in the early 80s that, mercifully, wouldn’t fly today. “Porky’s”, released when Brett Kavanaugh was a junior at Georgetown Prep, did over $100m in box office and spawned two sequels. Try watching it now - actually, don’t…
No one’s been asking me about Yale’s party culture, which I would say, anecdotally, is on the tamer side of normal (in part because there are so many serious students there and the school isn’t defined by its sports scene).
@DeepBlue86
Agree that the academic atmosphere there probably puts the breaks on a big party culture.
Greek life seems pretty controlled too…
And talk about 80’s movies being dated…someone pointed out the scene in The Breakfast Club where the popular girl wakes up after a long night of drinking and assumes she’s engaged in…well…and the protagonist gleefully taking “score” pics with her…
I went to Yale roughly in the Kavanaugh time frame. I entered as a freshmen/first year the fall after Animal House was released. It was a different time then. The drinking age was 18 and the residential colleges were the center of social/party activities. Greek life did not exist. Was there excess partying on Friday and Saturday nights, for some yes, but I knew of and experienced worse at State U and other colleges that were very Greek focused where some of my high school friends attended. I visited S last weekend, and the social/partying scene has now moved off campus to private houses, frats and sororities, an unintended consequence of which is there is less supervision than in the “old days”. I compare the stories that S shares with me (he is in a frat) with what his buddies are doing at State U, and it is not even close.
The Yale party scene isn’t that wild, but the less-than-forward male culture, often mixed with some members of both genders’ sense of entitlement, has surprised me. I think, perhaps, that my son pegged it more accurately than I did. My guess is that 10% of the males are not people I’d be happy inviting to dinner.
That said, nobody has asked me about it, although we recently moved and I’m not sure many people here know our son went to Yale. We do have stickers on our cars, but I don’t know if anyone notices. Around Boston, I think only Harvard and MIT count :))
Anyone else who pays through the Yale payment plan get anemail from an agency called University Accounting Service (UAS)?
Is this the new service taking over for Conduent?
I was hesitant to open the link without confirmation…
Just got the answer to question with a follow up email today. Here’s hoping for a smooth transition 
@BKSquared - I know we were at Yale at the same time. I remember the Lobster and filet mignon for Parent’s Weekend dinner. My dad was really impressed.
Has anyone’s child seen a Dr. in New Haven? My son is not on the Yale Student Health plan, but based on what I am reading online, it appears that all students are covered for ‘basic’ healthcare at 55 Lock Street.
I thought I recall reading some not so positive comments on this thread a while back about Yale Health, so wanted to know where students go when needing to see an internist?
https://yalehealth.yale.edu/more/health-coverage-overview-students-yale-health
@CT1417 The Yale parent FB page is pretty active if you want to ask it there too
@Faulkner1897 —Thanks! I didn’t know there was a Yale parent FB page. Off to look…
Is it Yale College Parents & Families? It looks as though that group was created in April 2017.
Yes, that’s it! It is a nice place to discuss what is going on at Yale, and share stories about our kids and what they are up to at Yale. It is a closed group.
My D has been happy with doctors at Yale. I’m pretty sure even with basic coverage that she had the last few years she was assigned a doctor and got in without problem. Now she has full Yale coverage as PhD student and has made full use. I’m up here visiting and she was telling me all her adventures. I keep reminding her to ask about costs ahead of time. She noted yesterday that other than imaging the other things she has used would have been covered in basic student coverage.
She cut her finger and went in to acute care… glued it. The next day she pulled it apart and she had appt within 1 hour for PA to look at it. She likes her assigned doctor.
Anyone know how FA, specifically “room” allotment, is distributed if your student decides to live off campus? Is there a stipend amount?
SCEA
Any idea at what time yale will send decision letters?
I know is on Dec 14 but it does not said a what time.