Although we do not use the definite article before proper nouns, we use it before common nouns and in “the United States of America” the article goes with “states,”not with “America.” The USA was founded as a voluntary union of thirteen independent and sovereign states, not as a single entity […]
By the 19th century, Harvard was undergoing a liberalization of its religious ideas under the influence of the Unitarians, who had come to control Harvard and institutionalized a greater emphasis on reason, morality, humanism, and intellectual freedom. When did Harvard become secular? Path to Secularization Harvard, for example, founded by […]
No, Columbia University in the City of New York is a college that does not have any religious affiliation. Does Columbia have a religious affiliation? Colombia does not have an official religion. However, Roman Catholicism is the dominant faith and deeply culturally pervasive. While the national department of statistics does […]
The only reason Duke, MIT, and Stanford aren’t Ivy League colleges is that they didn’t excel at sports when the Ivy League was created. These 3 colleges easily rank among the top 15 best schools in the U.S., and offer similar career prospects and education standards to Ivy League schools. […]
Yale’s recommended method of payment is online through YalePay. Online payments are easy and convenient and can be made by anyone with a U.S. checking or savings account. There is no charge to use this service. Bank information is password-protected and secure, and there is a printable confirmation receipt. Can […]
Senior year is not the time to take a light course load. Do not catch “senioritis!” The admissions committee will check an applicant’s senior year program and performance before offering admission. Remember that we are looking for students who will make the most of Yale and the most of their […]
Top 10 Hardest Colleges to Get Into School Location SAT Middle 50% 1. Columbia University New York City, NY 1510-1560 2. Stanford University Stanford, CA 1470-1570 3. Harvard University Cambridge, MA 1470-1570* 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 1510-1580 Which Ivy is the hardest to get into? HarvardHowever, with […]
$80 application fee or fee waiver Applicants using the Common Application or Coalition Application may request that the application fee be waived. Learn more on the fee waiver page. The fee waiver scale is based on family size and income in US dollars but is applicable to all international students. […]
How Hard Is It to Get Into Yale? Yale is extremely selective: it accepts less than 6.5% of applicants every year. This means that fewer than seven out of every 100 students get into Yale. In order to be competitive as an applicant, you’ll need to have near-perfect grades, excellent […]
The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England. What is the story behind The Seven Sisters? In Greek mythology, […]
Yale makes every effort to represent the diversity of the entire undergraduate community within every residential college. In this sense, each college is a microcosm of the larger student population. Most first-years reside on Old Campus in dormitories designated to specific colleges. Is there a difference between Yale College and […]
English (B.A.) Environmental Engineering (B.S.) Environmental Studies (B.A. or B.S.) Ethics, Politics, and Economics (B.A.) Can you get a bachelor’s degree at Yale? To qualify for the bachelor’s degree, B.A. or B.S., a student must successfully complete thirty-six term courses in Yale College or their equivalent. In doing so, the […]
Yale University has a system of fourteen residential colleges with which all Yale undergraduate students and many faculty are affiliated. Does Yale have separate colleges? All incoming undergraduates are assigned to one of Yale’s fourteen residential colleges. Students remain affiliated with their residential college for all four years (and beyond). […]
36-. Course credit from outside Yale Course credit earned at another university may be applied toward the distributional requirements for the bachelor’s degree and to those for the sophomore and junior years whether or not it is counted toward the 36-course-credit requirement for graduation. Can you graduate from Yale in […]
Ivy League admissions will require a final transcript, and so students should continue to work as strategically as they have the last three years. If planning to pursue a STEM or language major, students should plan to take a fourth year of science, mathematics, and foreign language. Does Harvard require […]