<p>lillymom, she will be going to Bulldog days after school Wed thru Fri. I hope she falls in love with the other admits, current students, extracurriculars, and all the other things planned for the students. Princeton has been giving her the full-court press, but we know the vibe is different there–from our one visit and from what we read. Problem is that it’s easy to sway a kid who’s on the moon already over her acceptances. In my heart, I think Yale’s for her. I hope she still feels that way after BDD. We did get an insider’s view of campus when we initially visited in the fall of 2009. A friend of hers, then a freshman, gave us the “inside” tour after our official tour. The campus was in full swing as kids were studying for finals. She could see herself there. I could see her there. Our first visit back was last Sat. We met with her friend again–now a junior–time flies! We saw the inside of the her friend’s residential dorm room and ate nearby. She still felt at home and I still felt like she belonged there. She started to sway after the Princeton letters/emails. It’s nice to be wanted!</p>
<p>Hopefully, it will be Yale. She didn’t object to me sending the NM card with Yale as her first choice–ha! I will check back often as I already have tons of questions on the dorms and the logistics of all of that. I just can’t believe the time has come…</p>
<p>Only kids who have accepted their spots get the Net ID. And as far as I know there is no deposit. My daughter is an SCEA acceptee and attending Bull Dog Days as well, she will make her decision after BDD and then she will check out Visitas (Harvard) next weekend. Yale’s admitted students site is so encouraging and User friendly that they have done a great job of swaying the decision in their favor, we shall see! Good luck to your daughter and congratualtions!</p>
<p>“Princeton has been giving her the full-court press, but we know the vibe is different there–from our one visit and from what we read. Problem is that it’s easy to sway a kid who’s on the moon already over her acceptances. In my heart, I think Yale’s for her.”</p>
<p>Wow! Same here. I took D on a college tour last spring and (I) fell in love with Yale… However, she is going to the *Princeton *admit event this evening (they have done a great job of recruiting her after the acceptance!), skipping Yale’s, and then she’s off to the Harvard event.</p>
<p>Her only issue with Yale is New Haven. As parents of Yale kids, what is your honest opinion of the city and why did your kids choose Yale over the other great options they had?</p>
<p>I think in the end my S chose the school that he felt was the best fit for him, after giving very careful consideration to every pro and con of every school he had been accepted to. In any city one has to follow general safety precautions. I have not felt him to be any less safe in New Haven than anywhere else he has been or would have been had he chosen a different college. It helped that he did a service project in Branford/New Haven area the summer before senior year, painting and doing maintenance on low-income family homes. It gave him more of a sense of community with New Haven. He had many choices for college, but chose Yale because of the strong academics, great performing arts opportunities, beautiful campus, residential college system, and an overall feeling for him of “this is where I belong.” He is already feeling great sadness that his first year at Yale is coming to an end–so I know he made the right choice for him.</p>
<p>dignified1: I suggest you let your daughter make the choice. She is the one who has to attend, not you. </p>
<p>My daughter preferred the city of New Haven over the town of Princeton. Princeton (the university) would have had a much better chance of winning her over had it been in the city of New Haven. Though in the end I think she would have gone with Yale even if it had been in the town of Princeton.</p>
<p>“dignified1: I suggest you let your daughter make the choice. She is the one who has to attend, not you.”</p>
<p>Oh. I have no intention whatsoever of deciding which college my daughter will choose (other than the monetary aspect, that is ). I simply agreed with the previous poster that Yale is a great school that should not be discounted simply because all may not be rosy in the surrounding area, that’s all.</p>
<p>If I were the one choosing the college, D would certainly not be currently on her US tour of accepted colleges. We’d have been done on April 1! :)</p>
<p>dignified1: Is your daughter going to make her decision based on campus visits, or just admitted student events in your area? Sounds like campus visits would be helpful, since surrounding community is an important factor to her. My kid loved the grit and energy on Yale’s campus. Many qualities mattered to him, but no other campus matched Yale for sheer vibrancy. For him, that piece of the equation wasn’t even a contest. Yes, parts of New Haven are depressed and unsafe, but the campus itself is safe, stunning, and pulsing with energy, and students learn quickly where and when to travel.</p>
<p>^She will need to decide based on the visits she is able to make this year and the college tour we made last year. Unfortunately, because of scheduling issues, she will only be able to “revisit” Princeton (Princeton was on last year’s tour), but not Yale. She will not have the opportunity to experience the other accepted Yalies socially, and social fit is extremely important to her.</p>
<p>^It’s too bad she can’t attend BDD. It’s a fantastic social experience. But it sounds like your D has fantastic choices. Really no wrong decision to be made!</p>
<p>I think they give you items that wont hurt the walls, they sell them at drugstores, but I think I remember seeing things like that in my daughter’s common room. They don’t want nails.</p>
<p>Back in the day we used to construct our own partitions with lumber and drywall to turn common rooms into private bedrooms :). Those kinder/gentler fasteners may work with an unframed poster on drywall but hardly work with much else. A little spackle and touch up paint should fix nail and screw holes just fine but I would rather ask for forgiveness than permission.</p>
<p>Anyone’s child coming home for Easter? I’m lucky to be close, but they really don’t get any time off. My daughter said she has classes on Good Friday, although Yale’s site says it’s a holiday.</p>
<p>That’s nice, I still give my kids a basket of sorts. I thought if it was listed as a holiday, there weren’t classes, but she says there are, so… she will be home for the day and back to a big test on Monday.
He sister being at a Catholic college is home Thursday night and back on Tuesday. (shedoesn’t begrudge her though) : )</p>
<p>Have all of your admitted students who accepted Yale’s offer received their Yale Net ID already? We’ve been waiting, but nothing has come by e-mail yet and we’re getting a bit concerned that our son hasn’t been able to make housign request, etc. I called the admissions office and doublechecked the e-mail address they have for us about a week ago, but still, nothing has arrived.</p>
). I simply agreed with the previous poster that Yale is a great school that should not be discounted simply because all may not be rosy in the surrounding area, that’s all.</p>
) I’ll be sending up a box of Easter goodies.</p>