Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New

Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate

School, the University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in
the United States. The school was renamed Yale College in 1718 in
recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, who was governor of theBritish East India
Company.
LOCATION:
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
ADMISSION:
Undergraduate admission to Yale College is considered "most selective"
by U.S. News. In 2014, Yale accepted 1,935 students to the Class of 2018 out
of 30,932 applicants, for an acceptance rate of 6.3%. 98% of students
graduate within six years.
Applicants for freshman admission must submit the following:

Common Application and Yale-Specific Questions

$80 Application Fee or Fee Waiver

Two Teacher Recommendations

One Counselor Recommendation

School Report (including Transcript)

Standardized test results, including either the SAT or the ACT with
Writing

Mid-Year Report (due when first semester or trimester senior grades

become available at your school)

NOTABLE ALUMNI:
Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents,
19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 living billionaires, and many foreign
heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of
Congress and many high-level U.S. diplomats, including former U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John
Kerry. 52 Nobel laureates, 230 Rhodes Scholars, and 118 Marshall
Scholars have been affiliated with the University.
CAMPUS:

Yale's central campus in downtown New Haven covers 260 acres (1.1 km2)
and comprises its main, historic campus and a medical campus adjacent to
the Yale-New Haven Hospital. In western New Haven, the university holds
500 acres (2.0 km2) of athletic facilities, including the Yale Golf Course. In
2008, Yale purchased the 136-acre (0.55 km2) former Bayer Pharmaceutical
campus in West Haven, Connecticut, the buildings of which are now used as
laboratory and research space. Yale also owns seven forests in Connecticut,
Vermont, and New Hampshirethe largest of which is the 7,840-acre
(31.7 km2)Yale-Myers Forest in Connecticut's Quiet Cornerand nature
preserves including Horse Island.
Yale is noted for its largely Collegiate Gothic campus as well as for several
iconic modern buildings commonly discussed in architectural history survey
courses: Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery and Center for British Art, Eero
Saarinen's Ingalls Rink and Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, and Paul
Rudolph's Art & Architecture Building. Yale also owns and has restored many
noteworthy 19th-century mansions along Hillhouse Avenue, which was
considered the most beautiful street in America byCharles Dickens when he
visited the United States in the 1840s. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed the Yale
campus as one of the most beautiful in the United States
RANKING:
The U.S. News & World Report ranked Yale third among U.S. national
universities for 2016, as it has for each of the past sixteen years, in every list
trailing only Princeton and Harvard.
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS:
In 2014, Yale had 385 registered student organizations, plus an additional
one hundred groups in the process of registration.
The university hosts a variety of student journals, magazines, and
newspapers. Established in 1872, The Yale Record is the world's
oldest humor magazine.
TRADITIONS:
Yale seniors at graduation smash clay pipes underfoot to symbolize passage
from their "bright college years," though in recent history the pipes have
been replaced with "bubble pipes". ("Bright College Years," the University's
alma mater, was penned in 1881 by Henry Durand, Class of 1881, to the
tune of Die Wacht am Rhein.) Yale's student tour guides tell visitors that

students consider it good luck to rub the toe of the statue of Theodore
Dwight Woolsey on Old Campus.
REFERENCES:
Yale University, one of the oldest universities in the United States, is a
cultural referent as an institution that produces some of the most elite
members of society and its grounds, alumni, and students have been
prominently portrayed in fiction and U.S. popular culture.