Comments on: Five of Many Reasons Why Yale Should Have an Admissions Blog

By: Hello to Yale 2012 from Sam Jackson, Yale 2011 | the Sam Jackson College Experience

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:07:00 +0000

[...] actually came to this position–blogging for you now–was through a post I made last July attacking the admissions office for its position on official admissions blogs– that is, blogs where the admissions officers themselves are blogging, but which can (and [...]

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:07 +0000

I sent out some friendly e-mails today hoping to open up a discussion about it, so yeah, let’s hope!

By: Kofi

Kofi — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:00:15 +0000

I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just being semi-satirical. This blogging-admissions thing is all so new to me, at least from the college perspective. I graduated from Yale in this decade, and I remember the “next big thing” freshman year was that another member of the incoming class actually published a book about getting in.

This is light years ahead of that. And I’m saying a lot of the academes, at Yale especially, often tend to react instead of act.

But if you’re serious about it, you should definitely make contact with Admissions Office when you get there. They love student input. Or perhaps the Alumni Office as well. You have time though. Give the place a chance to catch up with you.

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:51:45 +0000

Right… but here is an opportunity for us to take the lead. Whether it is ahead of anyone in particular… well, that would be an institutional consideration, wouldn’t it?

By: kofi

kofi — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:03:25 +0000

Harvard will do it first. Then Yale will do it to keep up.

That’s usually how it works. Yale is kinda undercover.

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:13:35 +0000

Well, fellow classmate, I would send you a longer e-mail on the subject but you didn’t leave me a real one, so I’ll just respond to your comment: I blog about these things because I think that they are important. I don’t know how divorced you are from our recent college admissions process but I do know that I would have liked to see some more resources from Yale during the admissions process and I furthermore know that there are people out there who would benefit greatly from say, an admissions blog. I have a sister 3 years my younger; I want her application process, to whatever schools she applies to, to be better than mine. To that end I try to influence things by writing posts like these. It would be futile if I was just talking into the wind but I do have a pretty good readership from school administrators etc. so who knows, maybe someone will listen and consider a little of what I say.

By: a fellow 2011er

a fellow 2011er — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:57:17 +0000

im a classmate of yours for next year, and i love love LOVE yale just as much as you do…but i really have to ask, why on earth do you care?! dont you have tons of other things to do than sit around blogging about the college process? particularly about why yale should blog about it also? seriously.