Yale University

Pros: Great place learn leadership, smart student body, nice city, great research, extracurriculars, Yale name
Cons: teaching is only ok, lack of intellectual diversity, lack of strong science/engineering culture among undergrads

As a highschool senior, you are drilled to want to go to the "best" school you can get into, and Yale is often at near the top of that list. But what exactly does this mean? The real question you should ask yourself is what exactly you want out of ...

Pros: You Don't HAVE to part if you don't want to; you can more or less do anything you want
Cons: You Are More or Less Stuck in New Haven

The minute I saw the Yale campus, I knew I would come here to study, have fun and exchange my Californian garb for black turtlenecks. Unfortunately, I knew I was completely self-delusional on my first day, when I headed to a small campsite in Connecticut...

Pros: excellent course work, very challenging
Cons: dorms used are mediocre, expensive, extreme amounts of coursework

When I was in high school, I had the opportunity to attend summer courses at Yale. Unlike many other college-based summer programs these classes were not dumbed down for high school students and high school students were actually mixed into classes with...

Pros: A world-class university that will look great on your resume.
Cons: Huge and forbidding. Don't try it unless you're intrepid and outgoing.

So there I am in the spring of 1987, trying to decide between Yale and Harvard. Yale or Harvard? Yale or Harvard? Every high school senior in the country is jealous of me. I'm the luckiest girl in the world, right?

Well....not quite. As I...

Pros: diverse student body, good student supports
Cons: faculty of some departments lacking in racial/ethnic diversity

I am an African American woman who graduated from Yale in '94. Obviously things have changed since I graduated, but I wanted to add a voice from someone of color since that is not one of the opinion options given by epinions. Yale is an institution...

Pros: Great cultural and social opportunities for city of its size
Cons: Gets kind of dreary in the winter

I heard enough Yalies complain about New Haven during my time at Yale. "If only it was in Cambridge..." they would say. Give me a break. It seems to me that most of these narrow-minded suburbanites should spend a little less time at the...

Pros: Faculty, students, environment
Cons: Inconsistency

If you go to Yale, you can get one of the best educations in the country. The most obvious attraction of Yale academics is clearly the faculty. In my four years here, I have studied Chinese History with Jonathan Spence, Literature with Harold Bloom,...

Pros: convenient location, meet many people
Cons: cafeteria food

I call it the Hall of Good Students because it is a graduate dorm filled with mostly Ph.D candidates. And as you may or may not know, Ph.D students are amongst the most academic (shall we say nerdy?) students of them all. Who else would devote the rest...

Pros: Diverse student body, many course offerings, wonderful place
Cons: Very few

When I was looking at schools in 1990, I probably visited 20 along the East coast. I looked at small colleges and large universities, and I stayed overnight at a few schools. Without a doubt, the one school that made an indelible impression was Yale. I...

Pros: variety, decor, food isn't slop
Cons: food quality is average

Food Service at Yale

Food at Yale ranges from gross to superb, depending on where you go. The dining system at Yale is based on Yale's concept of the undergraduate colleges. There are 12 colleges (students are affiliated with one college for...

Pros: choice, classes, major requirements
Cons: Econometrics is a requirement. Ugh.

Yale University - Departments - Economics

I am an economics B.A. major, with no interest in finance. Pretty funny huh? Economics is one of the coolest majors on campus. No really! I'm not biased...well, maybe I am.

The major in...

Pros: Center of campus
Cons: Crowded, not as many amenities

Ah Saybrook, two courtyards grass and stone, or so the song goes. Saybrook is the residential college I have lived in during my entire Yale career. I am currently a senior for the 2000-01 academic year.

Introduction to the Yale residential...

Pros: cheap easy living, everything you need closeby, did i mention cheap? awesome restaurants that are cheap, dozens of bars and clubs within walking distance.
Cons: poor neighborhoods nearby, lots of bums, not as glamorous as boston or nyc

New Haven is often the subject of discontent or disappointment from many prospective students' perspectives. However, even though there are a good size of students that aren't thrilled with New Haven, there are also a very good number of students that...

Pros: The best education available, professors really care
Cons: tough to get in to

Yale has topped Harvard in this category for a number of reasons, the least of which is not the treatment of the students. It seems that Harvard has been resting on its laurels a bit too much as of late and they have let their quality of undergraduate...

Pros: Residential College system, Ivy League.
Cons: Dirty, in the middle of a ghetto.

I visited Yale this November because I'm interested in Ivy League schools. I thought it was one of the neatest campuses I've ever been to.

Yale is the only college that has a "Residential College System." In this system, you are...