Words cannot express this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835091)

ywia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13840408)

So....

...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#14148287)

"kobi libii" [n-word]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13869902)

*unwisely fakes punt in waning minutes of the fourth quarter, loses the only game that matters*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835105)

I mean, come the FUCK on. Also there are somehow 2 white parents in the front row not near any white children.

Additionally the tour guide was black.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835143)

More like token heterosexual. It is Yale, after all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13837121)

granted he's clearly gay, but you obviously don't get out much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13851294)

So, you want them to show 6 whites, 2 asians, 1 hispanic and 1 black?

Why don't you email them and voice your "concerns"?

Dear Yalies,

Less diversity, please.

*rubberstamp*

EDIT: The black tour guide isn't actually black. He is obviously mixed race.

EDIT #2: There are evidently suppose to be funny and corny.

EDIT #3: Very good video. I liked it. The first white chick is tantalizingly good. And, there are much more white people in this video than black or asian. Every background character is white.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13846818)

Pretty low bar there champion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13849307)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835185)

If you're going to Yale, you're going for the Ivy name. Nothing in this video added anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13848908)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJUre3o460

http://www.ivygateblog.com/2007/11/last-night-i-remembered-how-awesome-it-is-that-my-dad-is-brian-williams/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13850805)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835265)

Student: Well....what about...William Shakespeare?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835379)

'No, I meant Stan Shakespeare.'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835394)

edit: oops, doesn't look like the real animatic (sp?)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835433)

As for the racial angle, which you people can't seem to shut up about, I'm sure that all the students in the video are fine, intelligent young people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835483)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13835761)

Of course, straight three button suits are TTT and decidedly un-Yalie.

Shirt and tie could be better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13837187)

un-fucking-acceptable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13837175)

:(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13838763)

It's like they got excited over Glee but didn't recognize it was satire.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13839031)

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/01/15/new-admissions-video-premiers/

The video opens as an admissions officer, played by New York City-based actor Kobi Libii ’07, finishes his address to a campus tour. A bored-looking girl in the last row asks, “But why did you choose Yale?”

Libii pauses before launching into a musical exposition of all Yale has to offer. When the scene changes, Libii, striding before the looming Gothic buildings in Branford College’s iconic courtyard, is joined by Sam Tsui ’11 — the YouTube sensation, who is also a Yale College tour guide.

Hundreds of other Yale students join in the singing and dancing over the course of the 15-minute movie. Even NBC news anchor Brian Williams, the father of Allison Williams ’10, makes a cameo appearance at a staged Master’s Tea. Libii walks the viewers through scenarios that showcase Yale’s residential colleges, academics and extra-curricular activities, and eventually, viewers are brought back to a panting Libii, who cries in elation, “That’s why I chose Yale!”

The last time the Admissions Office produced a video nearly a decade ago, it featured students strolling around Yale on rollerblades, donning high-waisted jean shorts and baggy T-shirts, according to Andrew Johnson ’06, senior assistant director of undergraduate admissions. Until today, the outdated video still greeted prospective applicants when they first arrived at the Admissions Office.

But because of its age, the video offered potentially misleading information and dated facts, Johnson said. Last spring, after making an amateur, private video series about the lives of admissions officers, Johnson said he raised the idea of making a new admissions video but with a twist: He wanted the movie to be a musical. While he was initially unsure if the Admissions Office would approve his idea, Johnson said, he met with Brenzel and was given the green light and a modest budget.

Work began that summer when Johnson and student filmmaker Ethan Kuperberg ’11 started the first of two drafts of the video’s script. The pair mostly worked via e-mail, meeting once over a weekend. Meanwhile, Johnson drafted the score to accompany the lyrics and recruited Kurt Schneider ’10 – who works with Tsui on his YouTube projects — to help with the sound editing and production of the video.

The next challenge was getting together the cast. With his low budget, Johnson said he had to rely entirely on volunteers, whom he drew from a network of friends, student organizations and eventually Facebook. Even admissions officers and their children did not escape his net, Johnson said.

“We begged, pleaded, coerced anyone we could find,” Kuperberg said. “We would tell the cast that we were about to start the shoot when the camera equipment hadn’t even been set up.”

Ben Stango ’11, president of both the Yale College Democrats and the College Democrats of Connecticut, was cast in the video as the member of the Yale Political Union.

“Ethan told me to come in a suit,” Stango recalled. “I quoted Aristotle and page numbers.”

The strategy worked: For the final shoot, more than 200 students turned up one morning early last semester to storm down the front steps of Sterling Memorial Library, Johnson said. To complete the scene, which features a large crowd of students jumping for joy, the production crew even asked onlooking Yalies to join in.

But the 10-day shoot was not without a few close calls. The directors of the musical still vividly remember what they now call “that camera incident.”

On the afternoon before they were due to shoot the Yale Symphony Orchestra playing in Woolsey Hall, Schneider said the production crew received a call from their equipment rental company, which informed him they had rented the equipment to someone else.

“We had three and a half hours to get new equipment or walk into Woolsey empty-handed,” he said.

Streeter Phillips ’10, the movie’s cinematographer, said the best memories from the set were from the end of the day, when he, Schneider and Johnson would stand exhausted and giddy from the day’s accomplishments before heading to the Applebee’s in Hamden to kick back for a beer and a two-for-$20 meal.

Of the roughly 60 Jonathan Edwards College students who attended a preview in the college Thursday night, all 13 interviewed had overwhelmingly positive responses to the video and approved of the Yale the film portrays. Five students added that they liked that it displays a playful side of Yale College.

Zachary Groff ’13 noted with approval that, though very obviously an admissions video, the film is self-aware of its camp nature. Indeed, Schneider said that the night before shooting, he and the rest of the production team watched Disney’s “High School Musical” for inspiration. He added that the score for the video is meant to be “accessible and pop-friendly.”

The new admissions video will also be shown to campus visitors at information sessions and tours at the Admissions Office. Yale students interested in seeing the video on the big screen can attend the premier in the Whitney Humanities Center tonight at 7 p.m.

Correction: Jan. 15, 2010

An earlier version of this article misreported the location of tonight's premiere, which is at the Whitney Humanities Center, not William L. Harkness Hall.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13840415)

*goes on campus tour*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13843443)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250576321996&index=1

Starring:

Kobi Libii, Yale ‘07

Andrew Law, Yale ‘08

Yanyao Fu, Yale ‘11

Emma Barash, Yale ‘11

Sam Tsui, Yale ‘11

Caroline Minkus, Yale ‘10

Stan Seiden, Yale ‘10

Miles Jacoby, Yale ‘11

Victoria Sanchez, Yale ‘13

Jay Frisby, Yale ‘10

Cristina Costantini, Yale ‘11

Ayaska Fernando, Yale ‘08

Claire Gordon, Yale ‘10

Ben Wexler, Yale ‘11

Colin Adamo, Yale ‘10

John Riley, Yale ‘10

Ben Flores, Yale ‘10

Rachel LaViola, Yale ‘12

Kate Berman, Yale ‘11

Patrick Lee, Yale ‘11

Mallory Baysek, Yale ‘11

Tom Sanchez, Yale ‘12

Allison Williams, Yale ‘10

Brennan Caldwell, Yale ‘11

Matthew McCollum, Yale ‘11

Ben Stango, Yale ‘11

Esther Hyun, Yale ‘12

Tessa Williams, Yale ‘10

Will Stephen, Yale ‘11

Matthew Prewitt, Yale ‘12

Gabe Hernandez, Yale ‘07

Emily Jenda, Yale ‘10

Matthew George, Yale ‘11

Jon Wu, Yale ‘11

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13850676)

__ impeccable skin

__ yale educated

__ BRAIN WILLIAMS'S FUCKING DAUGHTER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13851262)

If so, he's a great singer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13858659)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#13866705)

ZOMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#16027216)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYEUwMlpK_4

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1193362&forum_id=2#16394081)