Why Yale Over LACs

schrodingerscat
Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:02:31 +0000

The research opportunities and the ease of taking graduate level coursework is a big one.

As a science major, I started doing research the summer after my freshman year, and have been doing it ever since. I’m a rising junior, and I’ve received three fellowships from Yale, as well as an external fellowship. My PI at Yale wrote the textbook on the subject, and has published roughly 20 papers in Nature/Science. Some of my friends are working with Nobel laureates. This is my second summer abroad.

In addition, I started taking seminars that were cross-listed in the graduate school during my first semester of my sophomore year. I really enjoyed taking these classes because they were more mathematically rigorous than the classes purely for undergrads. I wasn’t made to feel uncomfortable in these classes and I learned a lot, some of which I’ve applied to the research I’m doing.