the Sam Jackson College Experience

I will keep this short and focus on the content here, folks, because it's amazing. A few years back I wrote an angry letter to Yale Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel for not being forward-looking enough with the admissions office. I will soon have to draft him a letter of congratulations for his support of [...]

Or, "It's not lying when admissions office does it" -- Just wanted to quickly highlight something which is not gross lying, but just mild misrepresentation. The Yale Admitted Students website has fantastic images of student rooms which are really really scrumptious and gorgeous and make you feel like everyone at Yale lives in wonderful palaces [...]

Regular Decision notice for the Yale Class of 2012 comes out this Monday, March 31st. 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. This is my first for the Yale admitted students web [...]

At the start of February I announced my desire to organize a scholarship through my site. A little more than a month later, things are really going strong. Here's where things now stand--still working things out: The Idea: A contest to propose the best new ideas for using new media, the internet, and technology to [...]

There has been a 14 percent decrease in the number of Yale students getting Pell grants in the last 8 years, according to Pell Institute senior scholar Tom Mortenson study, reports the Yale Daily News. Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzell disagreed by citing more limited data which statistics professors at Yale argued were statistically invalid. [...]