Yale FML

July 18, 2010 | 10 Comments | Post Comment

Score: +12 / -13

• Anonymous 10:55 am on July 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  

  Your parents didn’t FORCE you to do anything. Grow up.

  • sucks for you... 11:43 am on July 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    agree.

    at least make the most of it and major in engineering or math or something. otherwise, it honestly wasn’t worth it.

  • Anonymous 11:46 am on July 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    You never know. Maybe they’re those type of parents that keep a “naughty whip” on their wall.

  • Hey 1:44 pm on July 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    If they’re paying the bills, sometimes they want to call the shots. My parents were like that with the classes I should take. Rather than fight and lose, I’ve just stopped telling them.

    Sorry OP! As much as we mock Hahvahd, it’s still a great school. Good luck to you!

• Kid 10:09 am on July 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  

  Grow up

• Anonymous 2:10 pm on July 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  

  Shut up, guys. You think people can just go where they choose if their parents don’t want to fund them? It’s easy for you to say “pay for college yourself” if you’re on financial aid and only need to cover a few thousand a year. It’s harder if your parents are capable of paying your way to Yale, but won’t because they want you to go to Harvard. Without financial aid, that’s 54k a year and growing. How’s any student supposed to come up with that themselves?

  That’s the way financial aid works. If your parents are capable of funding you, you won’t be funded.

  • oh please. 6:15 pm on July 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    you gotta learn how to play the game. are parents going to want to say, “oh, yeah, billy got into harvard and yale, but he’s not going to be attending either next year since we refused to pay his way to _____.”

    it’s called civil disobedience. some of us learned how to use it early on. others…apparently not.

  • Mistaken 12:50 am on July 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    It’s called making your own damn choices (especially a huge one that the you earned, not your parents). If you can’t do it by senior year in high school, you shouldn’t be going to college.

• Touch the cornballer! You know best! 7:23 am on July 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  

  OP, don’t listen to all the harsh people. They’re probably all just bitter because they would have chosen Harvard if they’d gotten in.

  People, not everyone comes from a relaxed family. Throughout my time at Yale, my friends have struggled with parents only paying on certain conditions, such as not being gay or not majoring in the humanities. For all we know, the OP comes from a culture where obedience to parents is paramount, even at 18. Think of all the people out there who can’t even go to Harvard/Yale/whatever because their parents refuse to pay for anything other than state school, or because their parents refuse to let them go so far away. Basically, just don’t judge people for how their relationship with their parents works, because these things are complicated.

  OP, I hope you can maybe talk your parents into seeing reason and letting you come to Yale. It really is better here, and they do accept transfers

  • anon 1:12 pm on August 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    +1

    so true. i had a friend in high school whose parents wouldn’t even pay for her to go to state school, and since she didn’t get enough aid, she had to go to community college for two years.

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