<p>What direction (academically, socially, diversitywise, anything ect) is Yale moving towards?
for example: I hear Uchicago is moving towards a more active student body?</p>
<p>Ummm… to me (an alum in the field), it seems to be continuing to strive for excellence on the world stage --international ties, continuing to add to great faculty, committed to growing undergrad population (+15%). It’s just confirming itself as a world-class institution. They’re continuing with the physical upgrades around campus. About $10B is being spent on improving its scientific depts (faculty and facilities). Their endowment continues to outperform others – I don’t think Y is sitting on its laurels but lots of things are going well.</p>
<p>Can you get more specific? Sorry but your question is so open-ended.</p>
<p>Not sure if the OP is interested in this, but I have heard that Yale is really making a push to establish its science programs - it seems that the perception of Yale being good at everything other than science (at least relative to say Harvard or Stanford) is one that they are trying to abolish. Are they admitting more scientists/putting more money into the infrastructure and programs?</p>
<p>Why are you making these dumb threads in every Ivy forum?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a dumb thread. It’s refreshing from the never-ending wave of chance threads.</p>
<p>@Echelon32 and T26E4: Yale -> thanks for the info. Is Yale also moving towards diversifying its student body?</p>
<p>@rd31: Thank you</p>
<p>i’m quite curious about this too XD</p>
<p>Re diversity: all the top colleges have focused on diversity for years, which is why you see so much discussion about URM (under represented minorities) and geographic diversity. More recently, Yale and the others have focused particularly on socio-economic diversity (always a consideration, but perhaps weighted even more today), which is why all the discussion about 1st generation college applicants and the recruiting “college road” trips to schools in disadvantaged areas.</p>
<p>Caleno is right on. Yale’s student body is tremendously diverse already and their newer efforts into reaching to traditionally untapped fields (rural and urban school districts) combined with their revised (and very generous) financial aid programs will ensure that this will be successful. Frankly, they’ll be in a BETTER position to cherry pick from each year’s top HS graduates than they are already.</p>
<p>But I’m curious about your question. Do you assume that Yale ISN’T diverse?</p>
<p>Bump - can anyone confirm the Yale/science movement? This would be good news to me haha, as an aspiring Yalie science kid.</p>
<p>I can confirm the “science movement” insofar as Yale admissions started using special science readers in the admissions office last year to better screen for top science applicants. Also hundreds of millions if not billions going into science facilities in the past ten years with new investments continuing to be made.</p>
<p>AdmissionsAddict: curious, what is your source?</p>
<p>Information made available to alumni interviewers by the admissions office, the Yale Daily News, and probably other Yale-related publications that don’t come to mind right now.</p>
<p>Ah okay, thanks.</p>
<p>My tour guide said the same thing about the science funds.</p>