Yale University Top Questions

Describe how your school looks to someone who's never seen it.

Mary

Yale is an intense school that never wants you to forget how lucky you are to be there.

Carlos

Yale Divinity School is a diverse ethinic community and varying in spirituality encouraging an a wordly perspective to faith.

Chelsea

A school that provides amazing eduacation, great focus, has wonderful faculty, and really wants you to do something amazing with the education you receive.

Abiola

Yale is unbelievable.

Qiuyu

Busy, goal-oriented, socially vibrant, and full of good stress.

Hanna

Yale is a hodgepodge of diversity, a place for great social and academic experience: the tight-knight communities of the residential colleges; a large research atmosphere of the university; excellent resources, both during and after being a student; the prevalent collaborative rather than competitive attitude; and the guidance needed, especially when we spearhead our ideas.

Joseph

A group of scholars and friends with a lot of work and a predilection for trouble and fun.

Sam

The first place you will ever be surrounded by people as smart as you.

Tina

People are happy at Yale - come see for yourself.

David

Yale's dorms, classrooms, and libraries overflow with energy every day of the week and weekend as students follow a diverse array of passions and interest with enthusiasm and creativity.

Ford

Great school, great students, great facilities.

Tyler

Yale is amazing in every way.

Elizabeth

Yale is a place where your world view is expanded no matter where you come from. It makes you want to learn more about everything and everyone around you. It is a great place to learn and offers you the world.

Candice

It's really liberal.

Bronika

A pressure cooker

Clare

Creative, smart people who , for the most part, care about making the world a better place.

Courtney

My school is an excellent environment for students who have big dreams for themselves and are determined to do well.

Alex

Silliman College, where freshmen are allowed to live with upperclassmen (with an underground movie theater!)

Alex

social sciences and admissions office, president's house, school of management, & Luce, part of the Macmillan Center

Alex

Interior of memorial and names of war dead. Outside, memorial plaza; rare book library; outside of the law school

Alex

War memorial, dining hall, huge event space

Alex

Yale Hillel, Humanities Center, and other academic buildings

Alex

Construction, Elizabethan Society Building, and the Sprague Hall School of Music

Alex

Tour of Old Campus through Phelps Gate: freshmen living, quads, statues, and some classes.

Alex

Women’s Table, a women’s history fountain and Bass Library. Also discussion of police, parking, and competitiveness

Alex

Tour of Trumbull Residential College, the adjacent library and dining hall and master’s house events

Alex

Tour of the green next to Old Campus where the freshmen live, have picnics, hang out.

Kristia

The best thing that ever happened to me.

Steven

Yale is an unbelievable learning experience that will transform you as a thinker and a person as you not only learn and grow from your courses and professros but also from the amazing students and resources that you are surrounded by.