Applicants submitting the Coalition Application, Common Application, or QuestBridge Application will respond to the following short answer questions:
• Students at Yale have time to explore their academic interests before committing to one or more major fields of study. Many students either modify their original academic direction or change their minds entirely. As of this moment, what academic areas seem to fit your interests or goals most comfortably? Please indicate up to three from the list provided.
• Tell us about a topic or idea that excites you and is related to one or more academic areas you selected above. Why are you drawn to it? (200 words or fewer)
• What is it about Yale that has led you to apply? (125 words or fewer)
Applicants applying with the QuestBridge Application will complete the questions above via the Yale QuestBridge Questionnaire, available on the Yale Admissions Status Portal after an application has been received.
Applicants submitting the Coalition Application or Common Application will also respond to the following short answer questions, in no more than 200 characters (approximately 35 words):
• What inspires you?
• Yale’s residential colleges regularly host conversations with guests representing a wide range of experiences and accomplishments. What person, past or present, would you invite to speak? What would you ask them to discuss?
• You are teaching a new Yale course. What is it called?
• What is something about you that is not included anywhere else in your application?
Applicants submitting the Coalition Application or Common Application will respond to one of the following prompts in 400 words or fewer.
Yale carries out its mission through the free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community.” Reflect on a time when you exchanged ideas about an important issue with someone holding an opposing view. How did the experience lead you either to change your opinion or to sharpen your reasons for holding onto it?
Reflect on a time when you have worked to enhance a community to which you feel connected. Why have these efforts been meaningful to you? You may define community however you like.
在耶魯?shù)奶釂栔?，則把關注的重心更放在了學術的興趣之上，而這也非常符合耶魯對于學術的高標準、嚴要求。
尤其是在回答第一題：描述三個你感興趣的學術領域”時，大家一定要記住，如果你只是簡單的回答了經濟、地理、人文”等等這樣寬泛的方向，一定是不符合要求的。需要極其具體、并且能反映出你對該領域廣博知識的命題。
第二小問，在描述這個學術領域為什么啟發(fā)了你、影響了你的時候，同學們也注意一定要拿出自己的學術范兒，穿透學術領域之中的核心。
而耶魯最難攻克的題目則無疑是35字的短問答。在寫這篇文章時，我們可以利用的一個小竅門是：先寫一個更長的、100到200字的版本，從中精簡和濃縮你的內容。這一篇文章雖然只有35字，但它所需要體現(xiàn)的廣度、深度和維度一定需要更大體量的內容來承擔。因此，從一篇更長的文章來進行縮減，就能得到更好的寫作效果。