![]() I hope your kids college career is great. No appeals being accepted at least not for our family. My kid has options after graduation but they were almost all her doing and it was exhausting. I didn’t know my families income would collapse. I didn’t know we wouldn’t even have graduation. I really didn’t know how much my kid wasn’t a snowflake until they endured all she did at Yale. I didn’t know their first semester would involve the national media writing about her Econ class and everyone feeling free to call the kids in the class snowflakes. I didn’t know that my kid wouldn’t have a great Dean after their first year. The truth is, I thought it would be worth it but I am now really questioning that. My kids experience wasn’t great and I hope your child’s is wonderful. (I’ve watched my share of home improvement shows to know that, haha). I can guarantee that someone in middle America making 50% of what my family did in the past is living better. But $200K where I live is really not a high income and we are looking at a financial ruin with COVID. ![]() I really want people to learn from our mistake. ![]() Also, their decision to cancel graduation sucked but we probably couldn’t have afforded to get back there anyway. Maybe I am being unfair, but I didn’t know after Yale literally got the last $ from us possible, it would look like we might lose everything. Not to mention that our jobs are precarious now and our income is going to go down significantly. We reached the point were the unexpected expense of COVID was really too much. No vacations, old cars, small precariously maintained house. I’m glad you think $200K is a lot of money and maybe it is but I live as modestly as possible. They didn’t pay for my kid to home during this mess but they did pay for the financial aid kids. The kids that pay full freight and don’t have unlimited sums of money are definitely cheated. Yale has the resources to do better for all its students. But they realize now how much debt they will need to incur with Law School. They were happy with friends and extra curricular activities. The Student Income Contribution is nonsense and hurts everyone especially low income students. Deans and Heads of Colleges help the kids whose parents have the big bucks. Your kid will have to figure it out themselves. Tuition goes up religiously 4% and the dining hall quality goes down each year. Only at Yale they don’t call them adjuncts, they call them lecturers. The financial aid models really make no sense and you will find yourself wondering how the kid from across town who went to an expensive private school and belongs to a country club gets financial aid. For our family, Yale basically took every last dime making it impossible for us to help our child with law school. For middle class families from the Northeast or California it will be very very expensive and simply not worth it. I want people to really think hard about sending their children to Yale.
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