Yale+University

=Est. 1701=

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 * ==Yale at a Glance ==


 * Student Population: 11,875
 * Undergraduate Population: 5,349
 * Student to Faculty Ratioa: 5
 * Total Annual Costc: $59,320
 * In-State Tuitionc: $42,300
 * Out-of-State Tuitionc: $42,300
 * Percent on Financial Aidd: 66.0%
 * Percent Admittede: 8.0%
 * SAT Composite Rangef: 1400-1590

 Founded in 1701, Yale University is the third oldest higher education institution in the U.S. It is comprised of three main academic parts: Yale College, the undergraduate school, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the 13 professional schools. Some 29,000 applied for 1,300 spots for the Class of 2016. Yale’s student retention rate is 99%. Five U.S. Presidents were Yalies, including both Bush’s ’48, ’68, Clinton ’73 (law), Ford ’41 (law), and Taft 1878. About 19% of Yale’s student body is international students from 90 countries, and the school offers a host of international opportunities to its students, such as its Global Health Initiative and the Yale India Initiative, which places Yale amongst the top institutions in the world for the study of India and South Asia. The Yale School of Management was one of the first business schools to require all freshman students to study abroad and the Yale School of Architecture requires students to complete an overseas trip as part of every student’s final-year studio course. It competes in NCAA Division I-AA athletics and its mascot is Handsome Dan the Bulldog. In 1852, Yale’s crew team raced Harvard at Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, in the country’s first intercollegiate athletic event.

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 * ==Then and Now ==

Yale's roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.

Yale Charter Yale College survived the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) intact and, by the end of its first hundred years, had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of the graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university. The Yale School of Medicine was chartered in 1810, followed by the Divinity School in 1822, the Law School in 1824, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847 (which, in 1861, awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States), followed by the schools of Art in 1869, Music in 1894, Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1900, Nursing in 1923, Drama in 1955, Architecture in 1972, and Management in 1974. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">International students have made their way to Yale since the 1830s, when the first Latin American student enrolled. The first Chinese citizen to earn a degree at a Western college or university came to Yale in 1850. Today, international students make up nearly 9 percent of the undergraduate student body, and 16 percent of all students at the University. Yale’s distinguished faculty includes many who have been trained or educated abroad and many whose fields of research have a global emphasis; and international studies and exchanges play an increasingly important role in the Yale College curriculum. The University began admitting women students at the graduate level in 1869, and as undergraduates in 1969. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yale College was transformed, beginning in the early 1930s, by the establishment of residential colleges. Taking medieval English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge as its model, this distinctive system divides the undergraduate population into twelve separate communities of approximately 450 members each, thereby enabling Yale to offer its students both the intimacy of a small college environment and the vast resources of a major research university. Each college surrounds a courtyard and occupies up to a full city block, providing a congenial community where residents live, eat, socialize, and pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. Each college has a master and dean, as well as a number of resident faculty members known as fellows, and each has its own dining hall, library, seminar rooms, recreation lounges, and other facilities. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Today, Yale has matured into one of the world’s great universities. Its 11,000 students come from all fifty American states and from 108 countries. The 3,200-member faculty is a richly diverse group of men and women who are leaders in their respective fields. The central campus now covers 310 acres (125 hectares) stretching from the School of Nursing in downtown New Haven to tree-shaded residential neighborhoods around the Divinity School. Yale’s 260 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects of every period in its history. Styles range from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary. Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” Yale's [|West Campus], located 7 miles west of downtown New Haven on 136 acres, was acquired in 2007 and includes 1.6 million square feet of research, office, and warehouse space that provides opportunities to enhance the University’s medical and scientific research and other academic programs. The University also maintains over 600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and natural preserves just a short bus ride from the center of town.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Yale was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School at New Haven by some clergymen who wanted to establish a college to train clergy and religious leaders throughout the colony. These clergymen were alumni from another prestigious school...Harvard.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. In 1718, the name of the college was changed to Yale. This was to honor Elihu Yale, who was a governor of the British East India Company. He donated a crate of goods to help the young school.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. The most prestigious of Yale's societies is the Skill and Bones secret society. Its members have included George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, William Howard Taft, and John Kerry. There have been many conspiracy theories surrounding the organization. They have been blamed for everything from the Kennedy assassination to the creation of the nuclear bomb.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">4. The class of 2013 has a wide variety of students. There are students that have lived or worked in over 70 countries and can speak and speak over 35 languages. Their former occupations include everything from a combat correspondent and a professional magician to a marionette maker and advisor to the Korea Ministry of Finance and Economy.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">5. Before the civil war, it was a campus crime to express disbelief in the bible or express profanity towards the Sabbath.

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