According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Harvard University admitted just 4.6% of its applicants – 1,962 students for the entering class of fall 2018. This is down from 5.2% of applicants last year. Ivy League applicants were recently notified about their admission status. Seven of the eight schools making up the Ivy League…
Ivy Leagues Release Early-Acceptance Rates
Many students who applied for early decision/action to Ivy League schools can stop checking their mail for their acceptance letters. Nearly every Ivy League university has reported the number of applicants who were accepted early this year, according to a Business Insider article. Harvard had the lowest acceptance rate, with just 14.5% of applicants receiving…
Tips for Answering the Yale University Short Answer and Supplemental Essay Prompts
Not surprisingly, Yale University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. It accepts the Common Application, Coalition Application, and QuestBridge Application. All three applications require a personal statement essay plus additional Yale-specific short answers and a Yale writing supplement. For applicants interested in engineering or computer science, there is a third optional…
Tips For Answering Yale University Supplemental Essay Prompts
This post about the Yale supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2016 Common Application supplement for Ivy League and other top schools. Yale University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. It requires the Common Application essay plus additional Yale-specific short answers and…
Exploring Yale’s Top-Rated Physician Assistant Program
One of the fastest growing fields in the country is that of physician assistants. The need for PAs is growing by a torrid 38%. Check out the recording of our interview with Jim van Rhee, Director of Yale University’s Physician Assistant Program, to learn about Yale’s PA program. 00:01:10 – Introducing Jim van Rhee. 00:02:41…
Tips for Answering Yale University Supplemental Essay Prompts
This post about the Yale supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2015 Common Application supplement for Ivy League and other top schools. Yale University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. It requires the Common Application essay plus additional Yale-specific short answers and…
New LinkedIn University Rankings
Exciting news! LinkedIn just launched new rankings that connect prospective students to universities based on career outcomes. Here’s how they did it (in their words) using software developers as an example: 1. First, we identified the top companies where software developers are choosing to work. 2. Next, we found people on LinkedIn who work as software developers and…
Yale 2014 Tips for the Common Application
A student wrote me an email a few weeks ago. In it, he asked, “Do you think I should submit a version of the essay about economics that I wrote for Penn as the Yale essay?” I’m in favor of streamlining the essays for your college applications. Often there are ways to adapt an essay…
Is it Worth it for Women to Become Doctors?
According to a recent study by Yale professors Keith Chen and Judith Chevalier (as reported in a Yale SOM news report), women may be making the wrong career move if they pursue careers as doctors simply for the financial rewards. The study shows that becoming a physician assistant (PA) may be the more financially wise…
Yale Law Offers Innovative New Ph.D. Program
A Yale Law press release last week announced the addition of a new, innovative program – a Ph.D. in Law. The program is for students who have already pursued a J.D. and who would like to enter the field of legal scholarship. Students will spend three years focusing on law from an academic and scholarly…
