Applyin to Harvard/ Yale?

well....which course r ya applyin for?.....and did ya do the sat?

i might be applying to yale.

going to that school is like going to disney world though... they changed the tiles on the roof of one of their buildings three times because they didn't look old enough... that's so ridiculous...

i don't know if i want to go to school with that kind of mindset, despite the education being so good. there are many other schools with more healthy mindsets that are just as good academically.

"More healthy mindsets?" Nice strawman. Do you honestly think students or faculty care in the least about the buildings' roofs or the policies behind them? Jeez.

Of course not every person at Yale cares about the idiotic things the school wastes money on. However, what the school spends it money on is a reflection of the attitude of the school towards education and, subsequently, the attitude the students and faculty subscribe to by being affiliated in their respective ways with the schools.

If a school spends on money on roofs instead of state-of-the-art science equipment, what sort of an impression do you think this would give of the school? Not a very good one, I'd think.

Anyway, I'm not saying that everyone who goes to Yale or teaches at Yale thinks that the way the school acts is great or agrees with what the school does. I am, however, saying that I don't think it's appropriate for a school that boasts itself as one of the premiere academic institutions to waste money on something like this when students attend for an education - not to walk around Disney Land.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't make their school look nice or that they don't have good equipment. I'm just saying that it's over the top to bury roof tiles for months at a time to make them look older. I think it would be wiser to spend time and money on equipment instead of roof tiles. You know, spending money on things that actually help students learn instead of on things that just make alums happy. Yale has a beautiful campus - I'm not denying it. I think that they could spend their money in a more constructive way, that's all.

Other schools have these same exact stories--you just haven't heard them. This reminds me of the congressman who yap and yap about how every bill is going to affect the budget. Well yeah, but that's what the budget is for... to be spent!

They have a lot of money. And maybe the old tiles do improve quality of life for the students.