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Hey Ahmed,
Greetings from the Yale Undergraduate Outreach Committee!
My name is Elliot and I’m a student working in the Admissions Office. First, I’d like to congratulate you on being an excellent high school student! Your hard work has definitely caught our attention. As you begin or continue your college search, I’d love to tell you a bit about Yale and why it’s a great place to consider spending your college years.

Yale’s campus is vibrant and full of activity. With over 2,000 courses, over 300 student organizations, and over 5,000 enthusiastic Yalies, you will never be at a loss for how to spend your time. There are endless on-campus activities every weekend, from plays to musicals to concerts to comedy skits to social gatherings, and more. New Haven provides you with anything else you might want to do on your Saturdays and Sundays, whether its visiting cozy delis and cafes, exploring the beautiful parks and natural areas nearby, or joining the city’s buzzing nightlife.

One of best things about Yale is the Residential College system, which provides a tight-knit community of students and faculty that is a microcosm of the Yale population. A 5,000-person undergrad body is a lot at first glance, but the Residential College system makes meeting new people easy and stress-free. The student body is organized into 12 small communities (the colleges), and provides you with a kind of “home base” to build out from. You meet the people in your college right from the start—on Move-In day, when the upperclassmen from your college help move you in, and your residential college Master and Dean welcome you—and they stay with you all four years. However, the whole system is very interactive; people from different colleges definitely hang out, are best friends, and eat at each other’s dining halls. If the Residential College system is still a little confusing to you, think about the Harry Potter house system; we just have 12 colleges instead of 4, except none of them are evil (haha).

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look yah, i'm baffled.. but congratz

Yale is the 3rd best University in the USA. It's an Ivy League school.

mashaAllah, well done bro.

Thanks. I either want to get into this one or Colombia Univeristy...those 2 are the closest to me

Make du3a for me

will do inshaAllah.

Thanks sis

I'll make du3a for you two...to Oxford Inshallah

wow congrats Sultan!

Thanks fifi.

Did anyone find this funny, like I did:

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...If the Residential College system is still a little confusing to you, think about the Harry Potter house system; we just have 12 colleges instead of 4, except none of them are evil (haha).

Ahmed IV wrote:

Thanks sis

I'll make du3a for you two...to Oxford Inshallah

don't bother man

Ahmed IV wrote:

Thanks fifi.

Did anyone find this funny, like I did:

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...If the Residential College system is still a little confusing to you, think about the Harry Potter house system; we just have 12 colleges instead of 4, except none of them are evil (haha).

this Elliot guy sounds like such a sweetie pie

Lol, sweetie pie...I hadn't heard that in years lol

And why shouldn't I bother? What do the people that got in have, that you don't?

masha'Allah but im baffled just like the marwinator ... how in the world are you getting letters from Yale O.o

Don't colleges send you depending on your grades that they see on Collegeboard?

Ahmed IV wrote:

Lol, sweetie pie...I hadn't heard that in years lol

And why shouldn't I bother? What do the people that got in have, that you don't?

Oxbridge take ppl from private/grammer schools..
i'm in a public school man, they ain't gonna look @ me twice
like this Latvian guy in da year above got 5 As @ A-levels (like no one gets that man.. u'll RARELY see someone with 4 As @ A-levels), he applied for Oxbridge and neither of da 2 unis accepted him.. simply coz he's from a public skl.
anywayz, i'm aiming for Leeds, Imperial or Queen Mary inshaAllah.. =)

Excusde me, but my ENGLISH teacher went there...and she tells us how she was a failure and stuff when she was young... (My English teacher is American and not British BTW)

how old is she man? coz b4 u could get into Unis with like a bunch of Cs, but now thats gonna get u no where

She is pretty young...like 28-30 I would say.

they must be prejudice against my skl then

Or maybe they took her because she is American

i refuse to believe that

1) Congratulations ya Sultan man, wishing you the best in college life and after isA.

2) You can't say a university is the 3rd best university.. You need to say in which college. Like is it the 3rd best in engineering, business, science, arts, etc.. Coz it all matter.

Like in Egypt, AUC is the best in business, but Cairo Univ. is the best in engineering, etc..

1) Thank You bro.

2) I really have no idea how they do it but I said 3rd according to this site:

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings

Does anyone think I'll drown in debt if I go to Yale?

depends how rich u are innit

I'm upper middle class . But since this is an ivy league, they cost $$$$