<p>I know that Yale’s reputation in STEM isn’t as strong as its peer undergraduate institutions, but I also understand that the university has been pouring a lot of money and resources into these departments as of late. As a prospective class of 2017 student and STEM major, I’m genuinely concerned about the quality of science/engineering programs at Yale and would love to hear any current student’s thoughts about this. Thanks!</p>
<p>As a perspective STEM major…try researching it, go to the websites, read peer articles, ABET creds, etc</p>
<p>If you are “geniunly concerned” I suggest you apply elsewhere.</p>
<p>I just became aware of this issue. I read this [NEWS</a>? VIEW: Solving science problems | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/04/02/news-view-solving-science-problems/]NEWS”>NEWS' VIEW: Solving science problems - Yale Daily News)
on a visit to Yale last week.
Here are a few other articles from Yale on the topic.</p>
<p>[LARSON:</a> STEM at a disadvantage | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/01/22/larson-stem-at-a-disadvantage/]LARSON:”>LARSON: STEM at a disadvantage - Yale Daily News)
[WOLFF:</a> Flirting with STEM improvements | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/01/23/wolff-flirting-with-stem-improvements/]WOLFF:”>WOLFF: Flirting with STEM improvements - Yale Daily News)
[Yale</a> Scientific Magazine | The Nation’s Oldest College Science Publication ? The Story of Science at Yale, Part II: Sizing Up Science at Yale](<a href=“http://www.yalescientific.org/2012/04/the-story-of-science-at-yale-part-ii-sizing-up-science-at-yale/]Yale”>The Story of Science at Yale, Part II: Sizing Up Science at Yale – Yale Scientific Magazine)</p>
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<p>absolutely true…
huge amounts of time for p sets
difficult to arrange schedule for other things
shopping period is not really an advantage as from day 1 STEM students have p sets etc
our student has found the hum/soc/etc classes a completely different size of work/manageability around other things- in part because reading/writing is done on strict lab hrs etc…
and there isn’t grade inflatino with STEM…
etc</p>
<p>Not to mention ridiculous hours spent in lab for .5 credit class and discrepancy of grading between the different TA’s for lab.</p>
<p>STEM is a really hard group of majors at any university. They ALL have p-sets that take many hours, long labs for little credit, enormous work loads and little grade inflation. Having one S who is a STEM major (at a top 12 school) and one who is not (at Yale) I think the STEM major’s mantra should be “misery loves company”. Hang out and socialize with other STEM majors as much as you can. Don’t set yourself up for feeling resentful by hanging out with non-STEM majors who have more social/EC time than you. It’s hard because STEM is HARD, but it’s supposed to be, and it does pay off eventually.</p>
<p>The STEM/non-STEM workload disparity might be felt more acutely at Yale because of the higher percentage of non-STEM majors there and because everyone is mixed in in their RC’s. S1 is at a U with a separate engineering college, where all his classes and friends are. His roommates are engineers and most of his friends are too. They’re all in the same boat, but then again, they’re all engineers, so let’s just say…there isn’t a lot of variety in their interests/discussions… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>How good is their computer science specifically? I am thinking about majoring in compsci at Yale, with perhaps a second humanities major like economics.</p>
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<p>please do some homework</p>
<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You”>LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You)</p>
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<p>The only thing worse is D2s school. Like Y they count each class as 1 credit, that includes courses with labs, they get no additional credit for the lab part. No wonder she is so stretched between classes, WS and ECs, while her humanities/social science friends have plenty of time to hang out and chill in the SoCal sun 
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<p>entomom, I hear you. My son keeps threatening to change his major to Poly Sci. ;)</p>
<p>For prospective Yale students who are trying to decide if Yale is STEM enough for you, understand that it has top ranked departments, Nobel laureates like Tom Steitz that teach biochemistry to undergraduates, and has put its money behind expanding STEM opportunities by acquiring the West Campus and planning two new residential colleges across from the engineering buildings. The proximity of the medical school allows students in biological sciences to do more clinically relevant research and interact with faculty that are primarily based there. Of the approximately 80 majors at Yale, Biology is ranked 5th in the number of students who choose that concentration. The hope is that the West Campus can be used to bring together large interdisciplinary scientific collaborations and it is unusual that a university can develop so much flexible laboratory space at one time. This is an example of how this is being played out now:</p>
<p>[YaleNews</a> | Yale launches new Nanobiology Institute on West Campus](<a href=“http://news.yale.edu/2011/01/13/yale-launches-new-nanobiology-institute-west-campus]YaleNews”>Yale launches new Nanobiology Institute on West Campus | YaleNews)</p>
<p>I have been doing research. Just wanted a personal perspective from perhaps an alum or current student.</p>
<p>^Go to the Search function on this forum (upper R above the list of threads), search for ‘computer’ (don’t use science as you’ll get too many OT results), and you will get some past threads that address your question.</p>
<p>Note to all newer members: The Search function is an excellent way to get information if you have a search term that is relatively unique.</p>
<p>Yeah, I usedfogfogs lmgtfy and found some great cc threads.</p>