Yale University

Yale Essays: Please respond to one of the following prompts in 400 words or fewer. Please indicate the number of the prompt you choose. 

1. Reflect on a time you discussed an issue important to you with someone holding an opposing view. Why did you find the experience meaningful?

2. Reflect on your membership in a community to which you feel connected. Why is this community meaningful to you? You may define community however you like.

3. Reflect on an element of your personal experience that you feel will enrich your college. How has it shaped you?

Why Yale?

What is it about Yale that has led you to apply? (125 words or fewer)

Academic Interests

Students at Yale have time to explore their academic interests before committing to one or more major fields of study. Many students either modify their original academic direction or change their minds entirely. As of this moment, what academic areas seem to fit your interests or goals most comfortably? 

Please indicate up to three.

Other Academic Interests?

Other Academic Interests?

Tell us about a topic or idea that excites you and is related to one or more academic areas you selected above. Why are you drawn to it?  (200 words or fewer)