<p>Yale wants to hear your voice. If your voice is bold and Hemingway-esque, that is what they want to hear. If your voice is genuinely polysyllabic, then that is what they want to hear. The style in your essay should be yours.</p>
<p>…that said, if your style is jerky or sloppy, Yale probably doesn’t want you, but that’s not the point.</p>