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I have a lot to say about this scandal, one that involves Yale University. But before we start, let me introduce myself.Hello, my name is Camila, and I’m a grad student at Yale. I’m also a low-income student, an international student on an F1 visa, and a first-generation college student.Those labels I just listed should not be relevant. They weren’t for me while I was working as a midwife in Chile. But those labels are given to you the minute you apply to an Ivy League university. You check the boxes that baptize you as “Latinx”, “Low-income”, “First-Generation”, “Immigrant”, and you do so with the conviction that these things matter. Because these universities tell you that it matters. You go to their sites, you read their admissions page, and you see “Diversity and Inclusion” plastered all over the place. Diversity is their goal, and their mission is to protect it.It is no surprise then that when you apply, you do so with new-found hope. A letter of acceptance from an Ivy League university has the power to change everyone’s life, but when you are a minority, when you are low-income, when you are an immigrant, its weight is far more significant, and its potential to change your life is absolute, not just for you, but for your entire family as well, if only you can graduate.Academics is no issue. If you’re applying to an Ivy League university under those circumstances then we can safely assume you’re smart. You have earned the merits you proudly list in the hopes that they will recognize your potential and overlook your financial limitations. And they do. They come to you with wonderful tales of how they will support you if you’re a worthy candidate, and you believe them.The path isn’t easy, but you move forward because this will change your life for the better. You work hard, harder than other privileged students. You give up your soul with a signature to take on loans you would never be able to repay if you don’t get that golden degree, you parade yourself in front of donors that might want to give money for scholarships that will allow you to pay for food and shelter. You beg, you cry, and you plead for assistance that would keep you from going hungry and protect your family from selling everything they have to give you an opportunity that people like you just don’t get.And you do all this while renouncing sleep to study for tests, while budgeting every single thing you buy and reducing your expenses to the absolute minimum. You can only afford one meal a day sometimes, and your head hurts because your brain is eating up all those calories to keep you focused, but you do it. You persist because you have to. Your great grandparents, grandparents and parents didn’t have this opportunity, and now that you have it, you can only fight like hell to honour them.But there is a price to entering a school that’s used to having the offspring of the rich and famous among their students. They will ask for supplies you can’t buy and have no consideration for those who can’t afford it because that never even crossed their minds. They will suddenly increase your costs of tuition and just assume you’ll be able to pay for it. They will demand more and more money from you and ignore your cries for help. 100 dollars more, 1000 dollars more, 15 thousand dollars more seems like a joke to them, a small sum you can take from your allowance, or that might as well be laying around forgotten inside the pocket of some expensive Canada Goose jacket.This has been the reality of my experience at Yale. My dream quickly became the most isolating experience of my life, one where I’m barely able to make ends meet, barely able to afford food, barely able to put a roof over my head, all while getting good grades and passing all my classes (and I’ll be damned if I don’t, since this program has no remediation and they have already kicked out about 10 students even though the academic year hasn’t even ended). I have had to reduce my meals to a single one a day to purchase books my program demands I buy instead of just borrow from the library (they come with online quizzes that they make a part of your final grade), and have had to stop my parents from putting our family home for sale just so I can cover the sudden increases in tuition (15 thousand dollars) that the university revealed once the program had already started.When you are a student like me, with all those labels attached, you fight 10 times harder to keep up with your peers. I was already behind even before the race started, and it doesn’t matter how many meetings I’ve had (21 and counting) and how many people I’ve reached to seek help (I lost count), help is just “not available”. A university that’s rich has told me time and time again that there’s no help for me. They throw tons of food away every day, yet told me they cannot allow me to take leftovers home because I cannot be fed for free. They have looked at me as I repeat my story and told me that my situation is complex, but they cannot give me any “preferential” treatment. If you were poor you should not have come here, they have said to me with nicer words, and then they go to bed and sleep peacefully, lying time and time again that diversity is important and that they will do everything in their power to protect it.Scandals like this break you. They break your resolve and consume your faith. They dehumanize you, reduce you, humiliate you. They might as well be laughing at your face and it would be just as painful. Because this is nothing more than a massive “Fuck you” to all low-income students who have given everything for an opportunity that some of your peers got as a gift delivered on a gold platter from mommy and daddy.But I’m glad this has come out. I’ve cried too much and for too long while members of the faculty looked at me with pity only to do nothing about it, I’ve experienced the ugliest face of this university first-hand, and I can only hope that the dent this scandal will put on their pristine image will force them to do what the sorrow and despair of one of their students didn’t: Develop plans to support low-income students and minorities they have ignored and forsaken for far too long.IMPORTANT NOTE: I have edited this answer to add that another user on Quora, Kim Scheinberg, set a GoFundMe campaign to help me: Click here to support Help Camila graduate from Yale organized by Kim Scheinberg This answer was not written with that intention but words cannot explain how moved I am by her incredible gesture, and by everyone who believes in me and wants to help. Thank you!UPDATE: Donations have been coming in from complete strangers who want to help. Words cannot explain how grateful I am for your gesture, but even if I’m able to cover the extra costs of tuition, I will not stop meeting with faculty and staff, and talking about my experience until it (hopefully) reaches the president. Sharing my story, making some noise and maybe even be allowed to share things I’ve learned during the process might just bring some hope to people like me in the future. I have created a plan, and your donations won’t stop me from fighting since I’m not just doing it for myself. Thank you for reading

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Image: 25 August 1966—Unmanned Apollo mission AS-202 roars off the pad for its suborbital test fight three quarters of the way around the Earth to a splashdown inthe Pacific ocean. According to some, this flight was or should have been Apollo 3. Sort of. Read on.It’s simple. Don’t expect the numbers from 2 through 6 to make any sense. And that doesn’t matter, really. I’ll explain it all to you, but first I’m going to make you suffer through some stuff that some people may regard as dull.You see, the names for the Apollo missions typically used in newspapers and history books, such as “Apollo 8” and “Apollo 11,” weren’t all that important inside NASA except to serve as call signs for the missions when they were in flight. There was another numbering system that was more important for official purposes and that made strict, logical sense.I’m going to skip the early unmanned missions with the Saturn I, which was not a man-rated vehicle. They fit in this system, but the explanation would be too long and is not relevant here.Anyway, as we start looking toward the manned missions we name the missions this way. First, there are two letters, either “AS” or “SA.” “S” stands for “Saturn” and “A” stands for, you guessed it, “Apollo.” There were some early “SA” missions—all that meant is that administratively they were more under the control of the launch vehicle people at the Marshall Space Flight Center than of the spacecraft people in Houston. If you work at Marshall, the “Saturn” part comes first! After that, the missions were all “AS” missions, for which the administrative control of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston was dominant. There, the Apollo part comes first.Then come three digits: the first is either a 1, meaning the Saturn I which always flew unmanned; 2 meaning the Saturn IB, or 5 meaning the Saturn V. Then come two digits which count up the flights with each launch vehicle. Accordingly, the first flight of the Saturn V (known to the world as Apollo 4) was known by the insiders as AS-501. The Fire mission, known as Apollo 1, was AS-204.Image: Cover Page of the report of the NASA investigation of the Fire. Note that the Mission is referred to as “Apollo 204” rather than “Apollo 1.” True Apollophiles/gluttons for punishment can read the report in its entirety, complete with the seldom-reproduced Appendix A, B, C (Parts 1 & 2), D (Parts 1–21), E, F, and G (Parts 1 & 2), here.For the record, Apollo 11 was AS-506.Now, to the numbered missions.Apollo 1 (AS-204): this was supposed to be the first manned flight in the Apollo program, flown in February 1967. A fire in the spacecraft (on 27 January 1967) during a plugs out test killed the crew: Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. While the Astronauts had lobbied for the flight to be called “Apollo 1” and had a mission patch with that name made, NASA management had not officially given the mission that name. There was good reason to give it another name. The first manned fight in the Gemini program was Gemini 3, following two unmanned flights of the Gemini spacecraft. Following this precedent, the Grissom/White/Chaffee flight would have been Apollo 3 or Apollo 4, depending on whether you counted AS-203, an unmanned test of the S-IVB (Saturn V third stage, Saturn IB second stage) restart capability, that flew without an Apollo spacecraft, as part of the series. But, after the fire, the astronaut widows persuaded NASA to name the mission “Apollo 1,” logical numbering be damned. Heck, I would have probably made the same call.After the fire, nothing flew in the Apollo program until November 1967—the first unmanned test of the Saturn V, which was one of the handful of most important events in the whole program. If you want to understand why, Google “All Up Testing” or read about NASA executive George Mueller.But, back to this flight. It was known to the world as:Apollo 4 (or, to insiders, AS-501) 9 November 1967. Apollo 4? Yes, my friends, Apollo 4. What happened to Apollo 2 and 3? No, Virginia, there is no Apollo 2 and no Apollo 3. Maybe AS-201 and AS-202 (unmanned, suborbital tests of the Apollo spacecraft) should have been named Apollo 2 and Apollo 3, respectively, even though they both flew in 1966, before Apollo 1. Maybe that is what NASA executives were thinking when they named AS-501 “Apollo 4.” But, they didn’t. AS-201 and AS-202 retain those mundane designations and Apollo skips straight from 1 to 4. Apollo 4 was, by the way, a dazzling success. The immense launch vehicle, so huge that there were Engineers who worked on it who didn’t believe it would ever fly, took off at the scheduled time to the second, and flew without a hitch.Apollo 5 (AS-204) 22 January 1968. Yes, this flight has the same “AS” number as Apollo 1 because, technically, the number is assigned to the launch vehicle which, in this case, is the one that would have carried Apollo 1 into orbit. This flight was an unmanned flight of the Lunar Module in Earth orbit, without the Command Service module. It was an unqualified success.Apollo 6 (AS-502) 4 April 1968. Second and last unmanned fight of the Saturn V. This one had some problems. One engine failed on the second stage (S-II) but, because of a wiring fault, the problem with one engine caused the on board computer to shut down a perfectly good engine, meaning that only 3 of the 5 J-2 engines on that stage were working. The thrust was unbalanced, causing the flight control program to have difficulty maintaining stable flight. As if that weren’t bad enough, the whole stack experienced severe “pogo,” a back and forth oscillation, and the third stage would not restart as it would be required to do so on a lunar mission. All of the problems, once diagnosed, had straightforward fixes, paving the way for the rest of the missions.The manned flights then proceeded, beginning with Apollo 7 in October 1968 and ending with Apollo 17 in December 1972 in familiar sequence, in numerical order.I hope that this Answer is not too long to be useful and that it answers your question.