My uncle is a very senior professor at the Yale school of management. He has also been nominated for a noble prize in the past. Will it be considered considering I have listed him in the yale questions under “has any relative worked for yale”
If you have as many typos in your application as you do in this comment, probably not.
On a non-insulting note, yes, you should probably put his name down. Being thorough and proofreading never hurts. And I apologize for being snarky at you.
@rama2022, I’m also a bit snarky, but posters here do make an effort to provide useful feedback, and it should be seen as an act of courtesy to make the effort to proofread your question. I know it’s the Internet, and it’s (nominally) anonymous, and modern, etc., but really, you have to at least get the name of the prize correct: Nobel. If your uncle was nominated for the less well-known Noble prize, I’m sorry for assuming.
Sure put your uncle’s name down – it can’t hurt but it certainly won’t get you into Yale unless you are otherwise very well qualified to attend. The college will care much more about you and your credentials as opposed to your uncle and his credentials.
This is at least your third post where you are looking for an “in” to a top tier college (ex. brother is at Columbia, participation in geography Olympiad, being in Guinness Book of Records). IMO your time would be better spent on making your application as strong as possible.
In none of your threads have you revealed your GPA or SAT/ACT scores. If they are inferior none of these gimmicks will get you into an Ivy League school.
Since Yale asks for this information, we have to assume it is considered. How strong of a factor it is is another matter. Children of existing faculty members and administrators get the biggest boost, probably a bigger boost than parent legacy. “Uncle” is under the “Other” category and you have to specify the relationship. An uncle who is a sibling of one of your parents probably carries more weight than other kinds of “uncles”, but who knows if even that is much of a factor. At some point the distance in relationship makes the connection virtually meaningless. In all these cases, the applicant still has to be academically qualified and the relationship is just another item that is considered.