<p>No, there are no admission officers or current students behind the scene. At least in my daughter’s case. She fell in love with Yale when we visited there almost two years ago. She then did thorough research on her own comparing all the peer schools and only found that she loves more about yale. She is a people-person and finds perfect fit in Yale. The passion I saw in her is not influenced by other people considering that she knew no body there before she is admitted and she is the first one to be admitted to Yale in her school’s histroy. Interestingly she already found a bunch of newly admitted student who went through the similar identification process, that is why and how they started passing around their enthusiam, which naturally infected people around them. </p>
<p>Well, my point is that somehow Yale’s culture attacts kids who apprently enjoys a healthy and supportive scocial life. While you basically can get the top education in all the top schools, the school culture and social life then become very important. “fit” is probablly the most important thing to consider when you choose a school. (I always have trouble to reason why kids choose a school based heavily on location when there are no safety concerns. It is the school and its people make the major college experience!). I know that not everyone will fall in love with Yale, which is perfectly normal. But anyone who identifies him/her at yale is going to have a great time. My daughter now can’t wait to go to Yale, it is wonderful to see how much she loves it.</p>