Date: April 12th, 2011 1:35 PM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
yeah i've never really liked the architecture either. though pretty, it seems like it would be overwhelming to have to look at those buildings everyday. whenever i say that people bash me though.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:32 AM Author: Garnet Exhilarant New Version Wrinkle
A smart state school math major will take the equivalent of Math 55 in senior year (but not really the same as it will be spread out in 2 or 3 courses not just one and with lower rigor). HTFH.
Date: April 12th, 2011 10:52 AM Author: hyperactive site
Last I checked Princeton had more Asians per capita than Yale. I'm not sure about Jews. "Good looking girls" is subjective and open for debate when you are talking about these schools, if it was Flordia St., that would be another story.
Date: April 12th, 2011 10:53 AM Author: sienna pit
People underestimate the importance of being in a decent Final Club at H (or eating club at P). I can imagine it absolutely sucking for the large percentage of doods that don't get in.
That uncertainty alone would give me pause.
But I'm sure the XO alumni of either can fill us in.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:17 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
true dat. i laughed my ass off during the phoenix club party scene, with all those hot girls being escorted in the fancy party bus. i was friends with bunch of phoenix guys, and their parties were filled with uglies. lol.
Funny thing is, nobody really cares that much for Skull and Bones. It's fucking dry. There are much better options if you're looking for a party scene.
Date: April 12th, 2011 10:56 AM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
i think Y is underrated here because the kind of people who go to yale don't really become xoxo posters, and xoxo posters would never choose yale over similarly ranked schools. the two yalies here are myself and antmatic and i think both of us are really far from the xoxo median in terms of personality.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:02 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
the city sucks, but the campus is amazing, and there are some nice restaurants and bars for students. yalies, IME, have stronger undergrad loyalty than harvard alums.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:24 AM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
i think the lower-ranked a school is the more loyalty
yale people are insecure about being rejected from H so they have to pretend like yale's all that. princeton people want to be considered equals by their big brothers so they go heavy on the school spirit. harvard people are like "Harvard, 'nuff said."
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:26 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
i don't know about this. from my observation, lower ivy alums have very little loyalty with the exception of dartmouth. and schools like emory/washu/tufts/hopkins, etc., are even worse.
i think school loyalty can stem from either great sports and social scene OR prestige. a school that has neither is not going to engender loyalty from its alums.
guess you've never actually met any of them either, or had huge striver faggots for friends. i literally never encountered one person in four years who really cared about being rejected from HYP besides the odd superstriver
Date: April 12th, 2011 1:23 PM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
i was kinda joking. most people i knew there legitimately loved the school. and surprisingly, there were a decent # of people who turned down harvard (or applied ED but had such amazing stats they'd have been competitive at harvard).
but my senior year roommate was MAD as FUCCCCK about being dinged at harvard. she never told me she applied and was rejected, but i surmised it. her twin brother went there and she was always defensive about it. she'd always try to point out ways in which yale was better than harvard and bristled when people would mention that harvard is most people's first choice.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:02 AM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
i loved it too but everyone here shits on it. i think it's because people there are really artsy and liberal, no one is very interested in the hard sciences and there are lots of gay people.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:03 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
yeah, when i visited back during senior year in high school, that was the impression i got. very artsy, avant-garde, politically active. i really liked the feel. i know the debate team and political union are HUGE at yale.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:06 AM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
yeah i can't think of anyone there who wasn't in a dance group, or a capella group, or acting troupe or some kind of band. i was in a large dance group and our end-of-semesters shows were like a BIG DEAL. we would sell out of tickets despite having four performances and everyone would want to come. i remember people hitting me up for tickets because people in the group could sell them early.
and yeah YPU is really big, as is the newspaper and some other nerdy stuff. sports are really unpopular (even as ivies go) and few people major in sciences. the school actually makes it really difficult by putting all the science classrooms like a mile away from main campus lol.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:08 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
this is the exact impression i had as well. i did math undergrad, and yale is weaker in that than its peer schools. a friend was telling me how being editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News is a HUGE deal.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:11 AM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
lol yes
when i was there that person always got tapped for skull and bones
oh and the frat scene is really lame also. past junior year, societies are what's important, but most people aren't in one, so it's like meh. one of my close friends was tapped for a second-tier society (belezius i think) and she became a huge obnoxious bitch afterwards. she acted like her society stuff was so secretive and she was always making allusions to all the cool stuff they did that she couldn't talk about. it was lulzy.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:14 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
there are tons of secret societies at yale, but almost all of them are TTT. the only ones that matter are skull&bones, wolf's head, and scroll&key. quite a few of my yale friends told me that in their opinion, the latter two are now more prestigious than skull&bones, which has sort of devolved in recent years.
a good buddy of mine here in NYC was the captain of the yale debate team and got tapped for skull. he turned it down for wolf's head and turned down both YLS and HLS for a finance job.
Nah, you're not alone. Much to the chagrin of XO, I was one of the few that turned down H for Y, mainly because I had a fucking great time at Bulldog Days (that weekend still one of my top ten undergrad moments).
Have friends from all of HYP, none of us (that had the option) ever regretted our choices for an instant.
Date: April 12th, 2011 1:09 PM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
yea i think xoxo often forgets that most people have preferences and sometimes preferences are more important than making the "credited" choice or choosing the highest ranking school or whatever.
i know about 5 people who turned down YLS for HLS and every time i've posted about them people accuse me of lying.
It had absolutely nothing to do with the intellectual caliber of my classmates. I just got drunk at a decent frat and had sloppy-drunk, half-chub college sex for the first time that weekend.
That sort of shit will leave an indelible mark on an 18 year old.
Edit: assuming the intellectual caliber question was a separate inquiry, the answer to your question is very. For example, two of my randomly assigned freshman roommates scored 1600 on their SATs. I remain best friends with both to this day, and each is wildly successful in his own right.
Transformative in the sense that my five best friends all came from college, and we're extremely close. In talking to my friends from other schools, a lot of 'em haven't developed those kind of friendships, which made me realize that that shit is very much an underrated part of the undergrad experience.
Also have a lot of close buddies from my society. But while nice, it seems a little forced. I'm still closer with the doods I lived with for 6-7 yrs (in college and in MFH).
Date: April 12th, 2011 1:32 PM Author: Galvanic rehab boistinker
yeah i was a transfer student but my closest friends are the 6 girls i was assigned to live w/ my first year there. all of us are really close and we try to see us regularly. they were there a year longer than me but they absorbed me into their group as though i was there all along.
the residential college system really fosters strong relationships i think.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:03 AM Author: motley glassy dilemma coffee pot
Stanford or Harvard. Yale grows more and more irrelevant by the day. Think about it. Harvard has historical momentum as the best and Stanford has made the future possible while Yale has sort of just has laid stagnant the past 40 years.
Date: April 12th, 2011 11:09 AM Author: sadistic nursing home
i agree in the sense that yale is a lot weaker in math/econ/engineering/sciences than harvard/stanford/MIT/Princeton. exception is biological sciences, which yale is actually strong at.
i was pretty gone the other night and after i got on the subway i struck up a convo with a brown alum. the rumors apparently are true: there are indeed nude parties all the fuckin time. he made it sound unbelievable. and i dont think he was clever enough to lie about this kinda thing.