Should I update Yale about new school records?

Yale84Alum
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:38:37 +0000

This is also my sense. There have been a number of posts along the lines of “XYZ has changed – should I send an update?” Someone even suggested that let’s say starting a new extracurricular activity halfway through senior year was something worth pointing out.

I think that the incremental benefit of updating what amounts to a small piece of your application is tempered by the reaction of the staff to getting all these little updates. Big new awards are worth mentioning, but few happen in the window between application and decision. Everything else is probably pretty incremental.

Disclosure: I do alumni interviews for Yale but I don’t speak for them – this is my opinion only, and what I would tell my child to do.