Love is in the air at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, which announced a rosy, Valentine’s-themed “I <3 Handsome Dan Poetry Contest” this week on its official Facebook page. The contest — which prompts high school students who are applying to Yale to write a “Yale-themed love poem” on the Admissions Office’s Facebook page — offers »
Matt Shafer ’13 and Rachel Kurchin ’13 have been announced as recipients of the 2013 Gates Scholarship, a prestigious scholarship that allows students from outside the United Kingdom to pursue fully funded postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. Shafer — who studies in the Philosophy Department at Yale — will pursue an M.Phil. degree »
Two Yale students have been named Churchill Scholars this year, setting a University record. Kavitha Anandalingam ’13 and Jonathan Liang ’13 were among 14 scholars selected nationwide to attend the University of Cambridge next fall under the Churchill Scholarship — a prestigious postgraduate award that will offer around $50,000 in support to each student. Students »
Yale received an all-time high of 29,790 applications total for the class of 2017, marking a 3 percent increase over last year’s total of 28,977 applications. Yale expects to admit roughly 2,000 students from the applicant pool — about the same total as last year, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel. Due to »
Yale-NUS received roughly 2,600 applications in its first and second rounds of admissions, and has just opened its penultimate round that will end in January 2013. The college — which seeks to fill an inaugural class of about 150 students — admitted 96 applicants in its first round in May and 65 in its second »