Regular Decision notice for the Yale Class of 2012 comes out this Monday, March 31st. 定期公告决定，为耶鲁大学班级的2012年出来，这周一， 3月31日。 This post is addressed to both the regular decision and early action members of Yale 2012, and is posted on the admitted students website as well as my own blog. 这个职位是针对既有经常决定，并及早采取行动的成员， 2012年，耶鲁大学，并张贴于承认学生的网站，以及我自己的博客。

This is my first for the Yale admitted students web site, so if you are reading this there–congratulations on your admission!这是我第一次为耶鲁大学承认，学生网站，所以如果你正在阅读这有-祝贺你入学！ My name is Sam Jackson and I am a member of the Yale class of 2011.我的名字叫山姆杰克逊和我的成员之一，耶鲁大学班级的2011年。 I’m from Newton, MA (right outside Boston) and I’m in Trumbull college here at Yale.我从牛顿，马（右外波士顿） ，我在trumbull学院在这里耶鲁大学。 Some of you may already know me from ‘real life’ or might have been reading my blog already–others know me only as some random member of Yale 2011.你们当中有些人可能已经知道，我是从'现实生活'或可能已经阅读我的博客已被他人知道，我只是作为一些随机的成员，耶鲁大学在2011年。 This post is addressed to all of Yale 2012 but also applies to anyone who is wondering whether my credibility is impacted by my new role as an ‘Undergraduate Recruitment Coordinator’ on the Yale payroll with the admissions office.这个职位是针对所有的耶鲁2012年，但也适用于任何人，是不知道我的信誉，是影响我的新角色，作为一个'本科生招募协调员'对耶鲁发薪与招生办公室。 I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and explain some of my motivations in blogging.我只是想借此机会自我介绍并解释了我的一些动机志。

I’ve spent the last two and a half years我已经度过了最后两年半时间 blogging博客 about college admissions and higher education marketing trends, reaching (among others) an audience of admissions officers and professionals as well as higher education marketers.关于普通高校招生和高等教育市场趋势，达到（等） ，观众的招生人员和专业人士，以及高等教育的营销人员。 I’ve used that access to call for more honest and authentic marketing efforts and for greater transparency and access in general.我用获得呼吁更多的诚实和真实的营销努力和更大的透明度，以及获得的一般问题。 I also blogged about my college admissions process since it began, and today continue to blog about life here at Yale.我也博客网站对我的大学招生过程，因为它开始时，和今天继续博客对这里的生活在耶鲁。 As all of you readers are no doubt intimately aware, applying to college sucks.因为所有的读者，你是毫无疑问关系密切知道，在申请大学吸收。

I wish it didn’t have to be like that.我想，它没有以这样的。 My efforts to convince people to change their ways haven’t exactly had an instant payoff.我的努力，以说服人们改变自己的方法并没有确切了即时回报。 Right now I’m organizing a way to offer large sums of money for a scholarship to the student who can think up some of the best solutions (more on this later!) but that won’t affect what you have already had to suffer through… and I can only offer my condolences for the painful, stressful process.现在，我在筹备一个单程可提供大量的钱用于奖学金的同学可以想出一些最好的解决方案（了解更多关于本稍后！ ） ，但这将不会影响什么，你已经不得不承受通过… …我只能提供我的哀悼，为痛苦的，没有压力的过程。 It’s not quite over yet, but the worst is behind you.它的不太尚未结束，但最糟糕的是你身后。 Choosing can be maddening, but it’s better than having no choices at all… and if you’re reading this at admits.yale.edu, it means one of your choices is Yale.选择可以maddening ，但它的较没有选择，在所有… …而且如果你读这admits.yale.edu ，它意味着一种聪明的选择，是耶鲁大学。 So, could definitely be worse.因此，可以肯定会更糟。

I am blogging exactly as I always have been, only now I get paid for what I was already doing.我的博客正是因为我一直有被，现在我才得到报酬，为我是已经做了。 Truthfully, I would pay Yale if it meant that I could easily reach all of you admitted students!老实讲，我将付出耶鲁如果这意味着我可以很容易达到大家都承认学生！ (Coincidentally, so would a lot of other, less reputable people–Yale and other schools wouldn’t sell your information, but huge amounts of money are spent to buy up your contact information once you reach college-admissions age. When you took the PSAT or SAT, and then wondered how you subsequently got huge volumes of mail, it’s because the College Board sold your personal information if you consented to the ’student search service.’ Of course, the problems of the College Board are another story, one I chronicle often: eg, a year ago I detailed （巧合的是，所以很多其他方面，声誉较差的人-耶鲁大学和其他学校会不会卖你的资料，但大量的金钱都花在买了你的联系信息一旦你达到了大专入学年龄时，你上任psat或坐，然后问你如何随后得到大量的电子邮件，这是因为美国大学理事会卖给你的个人资料，如果你同意，以'学生搜索服务' ，当然，这些问题的美国大学理事会是另一个故事，我常常纪事：例如，一年前，我曾详细 51 ways your SAT could be mis-scored 51如何坐在你可错得分 , none of which the College Board would want you to know about, because things like that might reduce public confidence in the security of their testing procedures.) ，其中没有该学院董事会将要让你知道，因为要的东西一样，可能会减低市民对政府的信心保障，他们的测试程序） 。

I hope you’ll give me the benefit of the doubt when it comes to blogging credibility.我希望你给我把疑点利益归于当谈到博客公信力。 If it were about the money, after all, my main interest wouldn’t be Yale–I get an order of magnitude more money from direct advertising than I do by being paid $12.80 an hour to blog for Yale.如果它是关于金钱，毕竟，我的主要兴趣将不会耶鲁-我得到一个量级更多的资金从直接广告比我所付出1 2.80美元一个小时，以博客为耶鲁大学。 My bread and butter has always been leveraging my cynicism and negativity towards marketing efforts and institutions which I feel are not effectively serving students–especially prospective students.我的面包，黄油一直是杠杆作用，我怀疑和否定，对市场营销的努力和机构，我觉得是不能有效地服务于学生，尤其是在未来的学生。

I have a few posts on my blog explaining why I matriculated to Yale, why I wanted to go, a few cheerleading Yale, etc. But I also have quite a few more calling Yale out for all the things it does wrong, and things that could be improved.我有几个职位对我的博客解释为什么我预科，以耶鲁大学，我为什么还要去，有几个啦啦队耶鲁等，但我也有好几个更呼吁耶鲁出所有的东西，它是否错了，事情可以有所改善。 In fact, the way I actually came to this position–blogging for you now–was through a post I made last July事实上，在道路其实我来到这个位置志为你现在是通过后，我于去年七月 attacking the admissions office for its position on official admissions blogs 攻击招生办公室为自己的立场上正式招生博客 – that is, blogs where the admissions officers themselves are blogging, but which can (and generally should) also incorporate student voices.那就是-博客那里招生人员本身是博客，但可以（一般应） ，也把学生的声音。 This admitted students website has student blogs, but they are not publicly accessible (ie, publicized).这种承认学生网站已与学生博客，但它们却没有公开查阅（即宣传） 。 If you are interested in more of my writing on the subject, it’s what I’ve been writing about for years on my blog and the topic of my presentation at the 2007 College Board Forum in New York–I’ll stop ranting for now.如果你有兴趣更多的我的写作关于这一主题，它的是什么我已经写了多年对我的博客和专题发言，在2007年美国大学理事会论坛在纽约- i'll停止ranting为现在。
So… expect to see lots of posts on why Yale is failing to recruit more low-income students, problems about its admissions practices, and other problems along with all the nice things I have to say.所以…期望看到很多岗位上为何耶鲁是无法吸纳更多的低收入学生的问题，其招生的做法，和其他问题，同各尼斯事情，我要说的。 I have lots and lots of great things to say and write about Yale–I love it here.我有许许多多的大事，说，写约耶鲁-我爱这里。 Maybe you’re already in love with Yale, too; maybe you’re not sure yet.也许你已经爱上了耶鲁，太;也许你也无法确定。 Either way, you have a lot to look forward to next yearm whether it’s at Yale or anywhere else.无论哪种方式，你有很多期待下次yearm无论是在耶鲁大学或其他地方。

(Whatever your level of excitement, congratulations on your admission to Yale– I am excited to find out more about everyone joining us next year!) （无论你的水平十分激动，祝贺你入学耶鲁-我很高兴能够了解更多关于每个人加入我们的行列，在未来一年！ ）