Hating On Yale

Just wanted to say that Yale is going WAY overboard on its website in terms of trying to appear diverse. I don't have a problem with diversity -- I have a problem with borderline-desperate efforts to APPEAR diverse. It's like Yale's new marketing device is to make us think we're on the BET webpage.

I have been keeping some of the webpage bloopers of top law schools that will soon reject me just so I can feel better about being refused admission, and although Yale has not YET given me the thumbs down, I am compelled to start my hating early (love the school, hate the website).

First of all, of the three people who appear in photos on the official YLS homepage (www.law.yale.edu -- I don't want to link to it because I'm paranoid that they will track back to my blog) two ("students" and "alumni") are black, and one is the asian dean ("faculty"). Now, I love 'em, but isn't Yale trying a LITTLE hard to appear to not occupy the penthouse suite in the proverbial ivory tower? More outrageous is the photo, shown here and taken from the main financial aid webpage, of a bunch of black students sitting around laughing and studying (the only photo on the Financial Aid main page). WHAT IS THE MESSAGE? “If they can afford it, so can you!” or “Yale’s Blacks LOVE them some financial aid!” ?? It’s so odd. All the other people in other sections of the website are wearing v-neck sweaters and seem to be jcrew models while not studying at YLS, and this bunch is pictured in tshirts and (I can barely say it) OVERALLS and baseball caps. They may as well have a bucket of KFC, as far as Yale is concerned.

The other weird thing about the Yale Law School webpage, and I don’t even remember where I found this (back in September or October) is its school crest, which to me looks like a cheap East Village tarot card.














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