Yale and High School Musical, together at last!

Heavens! Have you had the pleasure of experiencing Yale’s zany and courageously campy admissions video? Ohhhh, you must treat yourself:

Not surprisingly, IvyGate took a sizable diarrhea all over this thing. Say what you will, but the video is well produced. What it’s lacking is a compelling story: every good musical must have one!

A few plot suggestions for the next “Why I Chose Yale” musical extravaganza:

1. A grumpy college counselor (played by Rex Harrison) begrudgingly teaches Eliza, a high school senior from a working-class family, how to speak the Queen’s English. Afterward, Eliza goes to a fancy ball and tricks the Yale dean of admissions into accepting her application, even though Eliza only scored a 3 on her AP European History exam but whatever.

2. A Yalie and her young son spend their junior year abroad in Siam, where they dance and sing songs with King Mongkut, because that is what global education is all about, no?

3. Emma Watson takes a tour of Yale, gags profusely, then attends Brown (with original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein).

Also, sixteen minutes? YouTube videos are not allowed to be sixteen minutes, unless they depict a litter of kittens wrestling joyfully on a trampoline. But even then, a stretch.

Also…Does Yale have peanut butter? After watching this video it’s hard to tell. Please elaborate.

Besides that…Good work Yale!