My Ideal University Yale

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Yale ‘s History 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.

Something About

Yale

Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the professional schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide array of centers and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.

The Sustainable Food Project, established at Yale in 2001, oversees a dining program with a seasonal menu, manages a model college farm (shown here) just a 10-minute walk from central campus, and supports educational endeavors concerning food and agriculture.

Their life

The Starr Main Reference Room in Sterling Memorial Library, one of the major Yale gathering places. The central library’s 4 million volumes—

out of the UniversThe Starr Main Reference Room in Sterling Memorial Library, one of the major Yale

gathering places. The central library’s 4 million volumes—out of the University’s total

collection of more than 11 million—and its atmospheric, well-appointed study areas attract

students, faculty members, and thousands of visiting researchers each year.

ity’s total collection of more than 11 million—and its atmospheric, well-appointed study

areas attract students, faculty members, and thousands of visiting researchers each year.

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.

Branford Court, typical of Yale’s enclosed courtyards, provides space for planned and spontaneous residential college activities. The residential college system, established in 1931, isthe heart of the Yale undergraduate experience. Every student is assigned to one of the twelve colleges, which serve as a “home base” for four years. Here, students share meals, spend free time, receive academic counseling, and enjoy access to a broad range of extracurricular programs.

Yale is home to a world-class medical center comprising more

than a dozen institutions, including the School of Medicine

(chartered in 1810), which has been educating leaders, caring

for patients, and investigating the scientific basis of health and

disease for nearly 200 years. Among its 27 departments are one

of the nation’s oldest schools of public health and the

internationally recognized Child Study Center, founded in 1911.

The School of Nursing trains outstanding leaders in nursing

practice, research, and education. Affiliated institutions include

the 944-bed Yale-New Haven Hospital—flagship of the Yale

New Haven Health System—and the Yale Cancer Center,

Connecticut Mental Health Center, Pierce Laboratory, and VA

Connecticut Healthcare System in nearby West Haven. Yale

HEALTH provides campus medical services to students, faculty,

and employees of Yale.

Health Care

Welcome“As Yale enters its fourth century, our goal is to become a truly global university—educating leaders and advancing the frontiers of knowledge not simply for the United States, but for the entire world.”“The globalization of the University is in part an evolutionary development. Yale has drawn students from outside the United States for nearly two centuries, and international issues have been represented in its curriculum for the past hundred years and more. But creating the global university is also a revolutionary development—signaling distinct changes in the substance of teaching and research, the demographic characteristics of students, the scope and breadth of external collaborations, and the engagement of the University with new audiences.”

Scholarships & FellowshipsYale University is committed to an affordable education for students from

every background. Diversity defines the Yale experience for those who teach and study here, and it raises our reputation for excellence worldwide. We invite you to learn more about ways you can help support our students.

Scholarships are vital in Yale College, where students are admitted regardless of means and nearly 60 percent receive financial aid. Spendable gifts and new endowed funds to meet this continuing need are a priority for the University.

Fellowships play a critical part in Yale’s professional schools, where many students rely on a combination of financial aid and student loans to pay for

their education. Donor support is vital to reduce their burden of debt following graduation.

The Graduate School pays the full cost of educating its Ph.D. candidates, and giving to fellowships there can have a major impact on Yale’s academic

mission. In the course of a typical program, a student can require more than $270,000 in tuition and stipends.

Please visit our Gift Guide to see a range of giving opportunities to benefit

students at Yale.

To be accepted to study at Yale, interested applicants must apply directly to the school, college, or program where the degree will be awarded: Yale College for undergraduate degrees; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for doctoral programs and some master’s degrees; or one of the professional schools.

Professional schoolsSchool of ArchitectureSchool of ArtDivinity SchoolSchool of DramaSchool of Engineering & Applied ScienceSchool of Forestry & Environmental StudiesLaw SchoolSchool of ManagementSchool of MedicineSchool of MusicSchool of NursingSchool of Public HealthInstitute of Sacred Music

My ideal program~~The school of architecture

My ideal program~~The school of architecture DEAN’S LETTER

Architecture's relationship to the wider world it serves continually evolves but always there is at its core an unchanging belief that the act of building is in and of itself a great and ennobling undertaking. In too many schools students and teachers now seem disinterested in building, distracted by cyberspace and a search for ways to transform the art of building into something else. Architecture is not a branch of information science; it is not a kind of electronics. At Yale we continue to believe in architecture as the most palpable of all the arts and the most public, the art of the here and now, the art of making and preserving fixed places that are the settings for the interaction of people and ideas over time. At Yale, we hold the act of building paramount: the logical manipulation of environmental closure in the service of particular functions and symbolic purposes. This is our overwhelming preoccupation; this is the quintessence of architecture as an art and as a profession. We are wary of trends masquerading as ideas. In a time of hyper-specialization Yale remains committed to a broad and deep generalism. To be effective, an architect must recognize and respond to a host of factors that taken in their totality describe the architectural problem which a building represents: a building is not the solution but a solution. We embrace the complexities and the contradictions of the contemporary, recognizing that today's issues are not for architects to tackle in a vacuum. Architecture is a collaborative art, embracing local community groups, as in the affordable house that is our annual First Year Building Project, and environmentalism represented by our on-going collaboration in design and research with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. New Haven, one of America's most representative cities, remains a principal canvas of our investigations into urban issues, but we also turn our attentions to New York and to a number of international sites including Berlin and Shanghai

My ideal program~~The school of architectureDEAN’S LETTER

The fundamental philosophical breadth of our approach is not only curricular and geographical but also artistic; we refuse to promote a single conception, artistic or otherwise, of what architecture is or might become. We recognize our obligation to the historic moment in which we study and teach and build, but we also recognize that that moment, however unique, is neither singular nor unchanging nor disconnected from the past or the future. Some would argue that in our postmodern era architecture has shifted from an objective to a subjective realm, and that, as a consequence, authority for judgment has passed from traditional measures of function, history, context or even technology to one dominated by psychological criteria, giving rise to a mood architecture obliged only to appeal to the tastes of clients or a limited coterie of aficionados. We are not so sure but we certainly recognize the psychological approach to our art needs to be examined along with those of other specialized, deterministic methodologies. Architecture is never one thing; it is a constellation of possibilities. A university is about open questions and not about definitive answers.Many architecture schools function as academies, fostering a certain "true" way, insistent about one mode of aesthetic expression and one way of doing architecture, straight-jacketing students in isms and ideologies. But today's "ism" has a way of becoming tomorrow's "wasm". Singular systems of design are no substitute for methodologies; our responsibility is to see architecture from many sides; most of all, our responsibility is to think problems through. We do not celebrate a false, single-minded unity or even pretend that consensus can always be achieved; rather we hold open the doors of perception to the wide world of diversity. We welcome debate, even disagreement.

My ideal program~Financial Aid

Admission to the School of Architecture is determined without regard to a student’s ability to pay the full cost of his or her education. The School’s financial aid policies are designed to maximize the financial assistance to all students with demonstrated need, as determined by the Financial Aid Office. A student’s financial need, considered to be the total cost of education less the student’s resource contribution, is first met with an established level of self-help. For students with financial need beyond the established level of self-help, the School of Architecture will award a need-based scholarship. Awarded need-based scholarship is determined by the higher of the two following methods of calculation. An Individual Resource Scholarship is intended for students who do not wish to or who are unable to provide parental resource information. In an effort to equitably award available need-based scholarship among qualified students, the award amount for Individual Resource Scholarships has an upper limit and in some cases, therefore, may not fully cover a student’s financial need. A Family Resource Scholarship is intended for students who wish to and are able to provide parental resource information. For a student with limited family resources, a Family Resource Scholarship may yield a higher scholarship award than an Individual Resource Scholarship. Submitting parental resource information will not affect the calculation of an Individual Resource Scholarship award.

My ieal program~Requirements for International Students

All international student applicants for the 2012–2013 academic year at the Yale School of Architecture must complete the General Test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Program. In addition, all applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the Internet-based test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT), a test that includes a section on spoken English (see Standardized Examinations in the chapter Admissions). Any transcripts, letters of reference, or other application material written in a language other than English must be accompanied by a certified translation. In order to receive visa documentation, international students must submit proof that income from all sources will be sufficient to meet expenses for that year of study. Each student accepting admission to the School must submit an International Student Certification of Finances Form for I-20 Visa Application. This form is due April 15 with acceptance of the admission offer. It must be completed and signed by the parents (and spouse, if applicable) of an international applicant, and must include all bank and tax information.

My ideal program~~The school of architecture

•First-Year M.Arch. I

•All other students

•Tuition •$39,450 •$39,450

•Fees •940 •940•Yale Health Plan Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage

•1,522* •1,522*

•Room and Board •12,780 •11,680

•Books/Personal Expenses •4,100 •3,900

•______ •______

•$58,792 •$57,492

~~~~FEES

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