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of course people still get degrees in english and anthropology and stuff tybur!! i kinda sorta regret my majors (psychology and visual arts) and wish i majored in the sciences or urban planning instead. tho everyone is majoring in urban planning these days anyway, so there’s already a glut. plus everyone and their mother now seem to be going to grad school. i fear a plain old bachelors degree is so going to be the next GED diploma 🙁 the last place i want to go back to is school, even tho i loved school the whole time i was in it, i have no desire to go back because looking back every single thing i learned could have just as easily been googled :-/ grrrr.
Yo! Negative Nelly! My mother and her family are from New Haven. I grew up right outside New Haven. My dual burial plot (I plan to score in the afterlife) is in New Haven.
Actually, DH, there are some very nice parts of New Haven, as well as some not so nice parts. Much like . . . like . . . like . . . Brooklyn . . . yeah, Brooklyn! My grandmother lived for 75 years in the Westville section, near the Yale Bowl, which is one of the 2 nicest areas — really beautiful, reminds me very much of Ditmas Park, and vice versa. But, the downtown area, near the Yale Campus is not so nice, though they’re always improving it.
Arkady – I’m not defending admissions practices! Trust me! However there is no way to actually know WHY someone was accepted or rejected from crazy selective places like Yale and Harvard. To say she was rejected because she was pushed out by the rich or legacies… well, it’s only speculation… and there were probably other (bizarre or counterintuitive) that hold FAAAAR more sway than legacy status. They have a lot of X-factors that they are looking for to shape their incoming classes. She may simply not have fulfilled that idiosyncratic need of the current academic year — Ceteris paribus, these secret criteria make ALL the difference when the school is selecting their new class.
I think money is almost meaningless here. Places like Yale can truly be “need blind.” It’s the small liberal arts places that worry about every penny to make ends meet… that’s where $$ becomes heavily involved with the admissions process — admissions and financial aid are in the same office. At Yale and similar, I bet financial aid and admissions have a far more vague relationship.
Jester – One of my clients is NASFT – Nat’l Assn of Secialty Foods.
Ty – She’s not greedy. The kid has expressed a desire for Yale since she was literally 6 yrs old. She worked very hard towards her goal. She scored high on all the tests – incl those ones where the max score is 5 & she got all 5s. It’s particularly disheartening since some of the kids who got into Yale aren’t as active nor as high in class standings but come from money or legacy families. (A mature individual would see that as a reason to denigrate the institution but this is a 17-yr-old.)
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a VERY interesting periodical to read.
Do people still get blase liberal arts degrees like English or anthropology or anceint Egyptian history? I pretty much assume everyone going to college now will just eventually go on for an advanced degree.
of course people still get degrees in english and anthropology and stuff tybur!! i kinda sorta regret my majors (psychology and visual arts) and wish i majored in the sciences or urban planning instead. tho everyone is majoring in urban planning these days anyway, so there’s already a glut. plus everyone and their mother now seem to be going to grad school. i fear a plain old bachelors degree is so going to be the next GED diploma 🙁 the last place i want to go back to is school, even tho i loved school the whole time i was in it, i have no desire to go back because looking back every single thing i learned could have just as easily been googled :-/ grrrr.
*rob*
uh-oh. Tybur6 is gonna get disinvited to the 22nd and cgar gonna throw tacks on the bike paths of brooklyn.
New Haven is a complete shit hole.
“but New Haven, CT is largely a dump”
Yo! Negative Nelly! My mother and her family are from New Haven. I grew up right outside New Haven. My dual burial plot (I plan to score in the afterlife) is in New Haven.
Actually, DH, there are some very nice parts of New Haven, as well as some not so nice parts. Much like . . . like . . . like . . . Brooklyn . . . yeah, Brooklyn! My grandmother lived for 75 years in the Westville section, near the Yale Bowl, which is one of the 2 nicest areas — really beautiful, reminds me very much of Ditmas Park, and vice versa. But, the downtown area, near the Yale Campus is not so nice, though they’re always improving it.
Arkady – I’m not defending admissions practices! Trust me! However there is no way to actually know WHY someone was accepted or rejected from crazy selective places like Yale and Harvard. To say she was rejected because she was pushed out by the rich or legacies… well, it’s only speculation… and there were probably other (bizarre or counterintuitive) that hold FAAAAR more sway than legacy status. They have a lot of X-factors that they are looking for to shape their incoming classes. She may simply not have fulfilled that idiosyncratic need of the current academic year — Ceteris paribus, these secret criteria make ALL the difference when the school is selecting their new class.
I think money is almost meaningless here. Places like Yale can truly be “need blind.” It’s the small liberal arts places that worry about every penny to make ends meet… that’s where $$ becomes heavily involved with the admissions process — admissions and financial aid are in the same office. At Yale and similar, I bet financial aid and admissions have a far more vague relationship.
That being said. It’s a horrible process.
I understand Yale is a very fine and presitgious university
but New Haven, CT is largely a dump.
i’m such a negative nelly 🙂
Jester — that’s one of my “trade magazine.” Much more interesting than Pipefitters Monthly or whatever.
Jester – One of my clients is NASFT – Nat’l Assn of Secialty Foods.
Ty – She’s not greedy. The kid has expressed a desire for Yale since she was literally 6 yrs old. She worked very hard towards her goal. She scored high on all the tests – incl those ones where the max score is 5 & she got all 5s. It’s particularly disheartening since some of the kids who got into Yale aren’t as active nor as high in class standings but come from money or legacy families. (A mature individual would see that as a reason to denigrate the institution but this is a 17-yr-old.)
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a VERY interesting periodical to read.
Do people still get blase liberal arts degrees like English or anthropology or anceint Egyptian history? I pretty much assume everyone going to college now will just eventually go on for an advanced degree.