Apply to Yale
International
Student
Students applying from abroad follow
essentially the same procedure and have the same application requirements as
all other students.
For a list of these requirements and
instructions visit Application Instructions & Components. Since some of
these requirements may be unfamiliar to international students, additional
information is provided here.
All applicants for first-year admission must submit one of the following:
· The Coalition Application with Yale-Specific Questions(scroll down for essay topics)
· The Common Application with Yale-Specific Questions
· The QuestBridge National College Match Application
Yale will accept any one of these
applications, without preference for one over another. Students should submit
one—and only one—application per admissions cycle.
Additional requirements for all first-year applicants:
· $80 application fee or fee waiver
· Recommendations from two teachers and one counselor
· School Report with transcript
· Standardized test results (ACT or SAT)
· English proficiency (TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, Duolingo English Test, InitialView)
· Mid-Year Report & Final Report
See additional details about these required application components below.
Please note that if your application materials include any documents that are not in English, you must provide an official English translation in addition to the original documents.
Additional Information
· Application Deadlines
· Application Acknowledgment, Checklist, and Admissions Decisions
·
Single-Choice
Early Action
·
Supplementary
Materials
·
Sending
Application Materials
·
Interviews for
International Applicants
·
Financial Aid for
International Applicants
$80 application
fee or fee waiver
Applicants should pay the $80 application fee via the Common Application or Coalition Application website.
Applicants using the Common Application
or Coalition Application may request that the application fee be waived.The fee waiver scale is based on family size and
income in US dollars but is applicable to all international students.
Recommendations
from two teachers and one counselor
Request recommendations from two teachers who have taught you in core academic subjects (e.g. English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies) who know you well, and who have seen you at your best. It is preferable, but not required, that recommendations come from teachers who have taught you during your final or next-to-final year of secondary school.
Also request a recommendation from your school’s college counselor. If your counselor does not know you well, the recommendation may still provide helpful contextual information about your school and its academic programs. If your school does not have someone serving as a college counselor, please request a recommendation from a school administrator such as a house master, principal, or academic advisor.
School Report with transcript
Your counselor or other school official should submit a School Report with an official transcript that includes all your secondary school courses. If a question on the School Report form is not applicable to your secondary school, leave it blank.
Recommendations and transcripts should
be submitted electronically through the Common Application or Coalition
Application website. If necessary, teachers and counselors may also submit
their recommendations and transcripts via mail or digital upload.
Recommendations may be sent before or after you submit your application;
materials that arrive before your application will be kept on file. The
admissions office will make reasonable allowances for late school documents in
situations where it is not possible for teachers and counselors to meet the
application deadlines.
Standardized test results(SAT requirements for Yale university)
All applicants for first-year admission
should submit results from either the SAT or the ACT. Standardized tests are just one
component of a student’s application and are viewed within the context of the
student’s entire file. There is no minimum score required for admission, nor is
there a score that will guarantee admission.
Only students whose home country of
schooling (for example, mainland China) do not have an SAT or ACT testing
center are exempt from these testing requirements, but must take either the
TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE instead. No other substitutions are acceptable. SAT
Subject Tests are not required for admission but are recommended.
It is important to register for tests
with the same name and same format that you use on your application. When
reporting scores to Yale, please use Yale’s CEEB code: 3987 for College Board
tests (SAT and SAT Subject Tests) or Yale’s ACT code: 0618.
English
proficiency exams(Toefl requirements for Yale university)
Yale strongly recommends that non-native English-speakers who have not taken at least two years of secondary education where English is the medium of instruction take any one of the proficiency tests listed below.
Test of English as a Foreign Language
The TOEFL requires pre-registration for available testing dates. Yale’s most competitive applicants have TOEFL scores of at least:
· 100 on the internet-based TOEFL
· 25 on each of the three sections of the paper- and-pencil TOEFL Paper-delivered Test
Results from the November test (for Single-Choice Early Action) or the January test (for Regular Decision) may not arrive in time for the committee’s consideration. Be sure to include Yale’s CEEB code (3987) on all test registrations.
International English Language Testing
System (IELTS)
The IELTS and PTE offer proficiency tests in locations around the world. Pre- registration is required. Yale’s most competitive applicants have IELTS scores of 7 or higher and Pearson Test scores of 70 or higher.
Duolingo English
Test (DET)
Applicants may submit the Duolingo English Test (DET), which combines an English proficiency test with a brief video interview. Duolingo’s technology and format allows applicants to complete the test at any time or place with internet access. Yale’s most competitive applicants have DET scores of at least 120.
InitialView
InitialView provides live, unscripted video interviews that candidates may submit to colleges for consideration with other application materials. Interview times must be reserved in advance. There is no scoring associated with these interviews.
Mid-Year Report & Final Report
Students who do not receive new secondary school grades by February 1, including students who have already completed secondary school, are not required to submit a Mid-Year Report. This includes many international students. Applicants who receive new grades by February 1 should submit a Mid-Year Report.
Only admitted students are required to submit the Final Report, which provides final secondary school grades and examination marks. Admitted students submit the Final Report in the summer before fall matriculation.
If your secondary school provides predicted results for external exams such as A- levels, the International Baccalaureate, and other international or national testing organizations, they should be submitted by your school alongside your transcript or Mid-Year Report.
All first-year applicants will complete a few Yale-specific short answer questions. These required questions are slightly different based on the application platform an applicant chooses. The 2019-2020 Yale-specific questions for the Coalition Application, Common Application, and QuestBridge Application are detailed below.
Applicants submitting the Coalition Application, Common Application, or QuestBridge Application will respond to the following short answer questions:
· Students at Yale have plenty of 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.
· Why do these areas appeal to you? (100 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 35 words or fewer:
· 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 question would you ask?
· You are teaching a Yale course. What is it called?
· Most first-year Yale students live in suites of four to six students. What do you hope to add to your suitemates’ experience? What do you hope they will add to yours?
Applicants submitting the Coalition Application or Common Application will respond to the prompt below in 250 words or fewer:
· Think about an idea or topic that has been intellectually exciting for you. Why are you drawn to it?
Applicants submitting the Common Application will also select ONE of the two prompts below and respond in 250 words or fewer:
· Reflect on your engagement with a community to which you belong. How has this engagement affected you?
· Yale students, faculty, and alumni engage issues of local, national, and international importance. Discuss an issue that is significant to you and how your college experience could help you address it.
Applicants submitting the Coalition Application will also select ONE of the two prompts below and respond in 250 words or fewer:
· Reflect on your engagement with a community to which you belong. How has this engagement affected you?
· Yale students, faculty, and alumni engage issues of local, national, and international importance. Discuss an issue that is significant to you and how your college experience could help you address it.
In addition to writing on your chosen prompt, upload an audio file, video, image, or document you have created. The upload should complement your response to the chosen prompt. Above your response, include a one-sentence description of your upload.
Please limit uploads to the following file types: mp3, mov, jpeg, word,
pdf. Advanced editing is not necessary. Uploads provided via the Coalition
Application will be reviewed by the Admissions Office only.
Applicants submitting the Coalition Application or Common Application who select one of Yale’s engineering majors will also respond to the prompt below in 300 words or fewer:
Please tell us more about what has led you to an interest in this field of study, what experiences (if any) you have had in engineering, and what it is about Yale’s engineering program that appeals to you.
Application Deadlines
The deadlines to submit an application for first-year admission are:
Single-Choice Early Action: November 1.
Match: November 1.
Regular Decision: January 2.
Applicants must submit the Common Application, Coalition Application,
or QuestBridge National College Match
Application online no later than these dates.
Recommendations from teachers and counselors
Please ask your teachers and counselors
to submit the required forms by the postmark deadlines above whenever possible.
The admissions office makes
reasonable allowances for teachers and counselors who are unable to meet these deadlines.
Submitting required testing
Scores that reach the admissions office by the first week of December for Early
Action or by early March for Regular Decision will be considered.
Single-Choice
Early Action Regular DecisionRecommended
submission dates for applications for Financial Aid:
Financial Aid Application November 10 March
15
There is no strict deadline to apply
for aid, but applicants are strongly encouraged to submit documents by the
dates above. This will help ensure that, if admitted, you will receive a
financial aid award letter at the same time as your offer of admission.
Admissions
decision notification
Admissions decisions for Single-Choice Early Action candidates will be available online in mid-December. Decisions for Regular Decision candidates will be posted online via the Yale Admissions Status Portal by April 1. Both Early Action and Regular Decision applicants have until May 1 to reply to an offer of admission. Decisions are released exclusively via the Yale Admissions Status Portal.
Yale Admissions Status
After submitting an application to Yale, please watch for a confirmation email regarding the Yale Admissions Status Portal. This email will be sent to you within three days of submitting your application. The email will include a temporary PIN and instructions for establishing your Yale Admissions Status Portal account.
You will use your Yale Admissions
Status Portal to view the following during the admissions process:
·
Your Application Checklist
·
Your Admissions Decision
·
For Admitted
Students: The Admitted Student Website
The Status Portal also includes forms that allow you to submit an application update, to request a change in your contact information (email, phone number, address), or to request that your application be withdrawn.
If you do not receive a confirmation email within three days of submitting your application to Yale, be sure to check your ‘junk mail’ folder. Some email services mistakenly filter Yale admissions messages as junk. To prevent this, add ‘donotreply@yale.edu(link sends e-mail)’ to your address book or contact list. Finally,
please ensure that you have clicked ‘Submit’ on the Common Application or Coalition Application site when submitting your application. Some students overlook this necessary final step after completing their application online.
Important Note
about Legal Names
· Please use your full legal name on all admissions documents, including
teacher recommendations, the school report, standardized test results,
supplementary materials, etc. We will file your application under the full
legal name listed on your application. Documents received with any other name
may not be filed with your application.
·
Please consistently use your full legal
name when registering for any standardized tests.
Single Choice Early Action
If you would like an admissions decision by mid-December, you may apply under Yale’s Single-Choice Early Action program (otherwise known as Restrictive Early Action). The program is like other non-binding plans in that candidates who are admitted early need not respond to the offer of admission until May 1, and may apply to other schools for Regular Decision. Being admitted to Yale early would, for example, still allow you to compare offers of financial aid in the spring.
Yale’s Early Action plan is unlike many other programs in that if you apply for Single- Choice Early Action at Yale, you may not simultaneously apply for Early Action or Early Decision to any other school with a few exceptions (*see “Applying to Other Colleges and Universities” below). If you apply early to Yale, you are indicating that the only Early Action/Early Decision application you intend to file is Yale’s, unless another early application is covered by one of the exceptions listed below.
For Single-Choice Early Action, the
deadline to submit the Common Application or Coalition Application, along with
the application fee or fee waiver request is November
1. Students will be notified of the admissions committee’s decision in mid-December. Admitted students will have until May 1 to accept an offer of admission.
Applying to Other Colleges and
Universities
If you are a Single-Choice Early Action applicant to Yale, you may apply to another institution’s early admission program as follows:
· You may apply to any college’s non- binding rolling admission program.
· You may apply to any public institution at any time, provided that admission is non-binding.
· You may apply to another college’s Early Decision II program, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. If you are admitted through another college’s Early Decision II binding program, you must withdraw your application from Yale.
· You may apply to another college’s Early Action II program.
· You may apply to any institution outside of the United States at any time.
The Single-Choice
Early Action Application Process
To take part in this program, check the box for Restrictive Early Action in the Yale- specific questions section of the Common Application or Coalition Application. Then submit those online forms no later than November 1. In mid-December Yale will send you its decision on your application. There are three possibilities:
1. An offer of admission to the first-year class
2. Denial of admission
3. Deferral for consideration in Regular Decision
The last of these, deferral, means that the admissions committee has deferred its decision and will re-consider your application along with the Regular Decision applicants. Deferred applicants will receive a final decision by April 1. Applicants denied admission under Single-Choice Early Action are not eligible for further consideration for admission during that application cycle.
Evaluation of
Single-Choice Early Action Applications
Single-Choice Early Action candidates are evaluated in the same way as are those who apply for Regular Decision. Senior grades are not often available for early candidates, so consider the strength of your record at the point of application and have all your testing completed by early November if you use the Single-Choice Early Action program.
Interviews for First-Year
An interview is not a required part of
the application process, but applicants are encouraged to connect with a Yale
alumnus/a or student interviewer when possible. An interview will help you
learn more about Yale and will provide an additional opportunity to share
information about yourself. All Yale interviews, both those with alumni and
those with current Yale seniors, are evaluative. Admissions officers read
interview reports along with all your application materials. If you find that
you have questions that cannot be answered here, please view our Interview FAQ page.
Off-campus/alumni
interviews
The Yale Alumni Schools Committee (ASC) conducts interviews wherever there is a local association. Alumni interviewers can be a valuable resource for you, providing firsthand knowledge of what it is like to live and study at Yale.
The ASC will not contact you for an alumni interview until after you have submitted your admissions applications to Yale. Please note that in the fall, the ASC schedules
Single-Choice Early Action interviews before Regular Decision interviews. Interviews can take place in-person or via web-based video chat. In some regions, the number of applicants exceeds the number of interviews available. Interviews will be offered on a space-available basis to as many applicants as possible, but applicants may not request an alumni interview. Please do not attempt to contact Undergraduate Admissions or the local ASC volunteers to request an interview.
While ASC interviews are available in most parts of the United States and in many foreign countries, there are places where we do not offer alumni interviews. If an alumni interview is not available where you live, don’t worry. Interviews are not required for our Admissions Committee to evaluate your application, and students who are not able to have an interview are not disadvantaged.
On-campus
interviews
A limited number of on-campus interviews are available on a first-come, first-served basis from mid-June to mid-August and from mid-September to mid-November. These interviews are conducted by current Yale seniors at the admissions office and take approximately thirty minutes.
* To register for an on-campus
interview, you must be a high school student who plans to apply to Yale as a
first-year applicant during the 2019-2020 admissions cycle. If you interview on
campus, you will not be offered an alumni interview if you apply for first-year
admission.
Schedule an
on-campus interview
Summer on-campus interview will be available through mid-August. Fall on-campus interviews will be available beginning in September. Please note that more prospective students request on-campus interviews than the office can accommodate. Do not be discouraged if you aren’t able to schedule an on-campus interview. After submitting an application you may have the opportunity to interview with an alumnus/a in your area. Interviews are not required, and the admissions office does not penalize those applicants who cannot obtain an interview.
Financial Aid for International Applicants
Yale operates a need-blind admissions
policy for all applicants, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.
Yale admits undergraduate students without regard to their ability to pay, and
provides need-based financial aid awards to all admitted students on the basis
of individual needs assessments. All of Yale’s undergraduate financial aid is
awarded on the basis of financial need. There are no merit-based or academic
scholarships.
Financial aid awards for international students are created using a needs analysis that takes into account the relative differences between the US economy and the economy of students’ home countries.
Submitting financial aid documents
·
Use the College Board's
IDOC Service to submit tax returns and other documentation.
For more information about this service,
see IDOC under Financial Aid Terminology or visit the College Board website.
· Undergraduate aid
applicants may submit required Yale forms
through the Online Document Upload Tool.
Please allow up to
two business days for processing.
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