Yale University offers one of the finest undergraduate educational experiences is in the world.
Yale students explore, discover and mature
in our unique community of individuals.
If you believe the world can change for the better through leadership and public service
you may see yourself here
among friends
This university
is so old, so respected,
but it's still looking at
what it can do next. Yale is paying more attention to international community and
trying to
attract more students from around the globe. Yale teaches you that there's more
in the world than
just how you grew up that
people have different ways of thinking and different ways
of doing things
A Yale education prepares students for leadership and service
in an increasingly interdependent world
You will interact
with fascinating people every day,
and through those interactions you'll figure out
what you're passion about.
I didn't only get a world class education here; I got a global
education. I'm interested in
once the fair exchange through using my talents and my skills, and in this case I wanted to use
my technical skills to contribute to the development of my country.
Yale has given that sense that
the world is large but it's not
impossible to understand it or to try to change it.
It's not like how to make small differences,
it's how to make big differences.
Yale college offers the reward of a liberal arts education,
drawing on the resources of one of the world's great research universities.
Through exploration and discovery of your individual passions and abilities,
Yale teaches you how to learn.
The liberal arts education prepares you for anything and everything they wish to do
in a career
and in life.
I knew it was a liberal arts
school, but I also knew that
they had very strong departments in biology
and the sciences,
but I wasn't sure at that time when I came in as a freshman what fields I exactly wanted to pursue.
One of the best things
about Yale has been basically
the amount of flexibility
in terms of courses that I could take.
The liberal arts major in fact is quite empowering.
I wanted, you know, an environment
which would allow me to be quite well rounded, and Yale was one of the environments which you
get a strong liberal arts education, and at the same time
I can get that strong
engineering education as well.
What Yale really teaches me is
how to view a problem.
Doesn't matter what the problem is.
You will not graduate from Yale knowing a trade
but you will graduate from Yale knowing a) how to learn
and b) how to be a great individual.
Only one set of your courses has to be the subject you're majoring in,
and the remaining two thirds are for you
to explore, to take other courses, to maybe get a second major.
The school itself pushes me to
go beyond my immediate
sphere of interest
and see that I can master
fields that are not
necessarily something that I would think of immediately.
That's where Yale comes in,
and with all its counseling and guidance programs.
A defining feature of Yale College is its residential college system.
It can be especially helpful to international students
by providing a comfortable living environment,
the ability to interact with faculty and classmates,
and exciting opportunities for academic and extracurricular exploration.
Being at Yale,
I got to appreciate my own culture
but from a different perspective. I got to think
from outside the box. The university is divided into twelve residential colleges with
approximately four hundred fifty students in each of them.
We have a great community.
You have a very unique community
that is characterized by very close relationships.
We cooperate, we support each other,
we edit each other's papers,
we help each other during problem sets.
I chose Yale because I liked its size.
It wasn't too big that you would just get lost in a sea of people, and it wasn't too
small that you would meet everyone immediately. It was the perfect size for a community.
At Yale the focus of attention is on the undergrads so as I'm here
I really feel that I'm part of the university.
I really feel that I'm in the center of campus life. Yes, there is a graduate school, but the
undergrads are important, so the professors realize that, the students realize that, and
the administration realizes that.
As one of the world's leading research universities,
Yale recently invested over one billion dollars into science and engineering.
With new science facilities and the purchase of a one hundred and thirty six acre campus
and laboratory complex,
Yale is firmly committed to providing the finest physical and intellectual resources.
You get the technical knowledge that you need;
all the classes that you want to take are available at Yale,
but in addition to that because
it's a smaller department and you have
a ratio of one to three professors at Yale in the engineering department
it means that professors are committed to you and your development.
After my freshman year I participated in a research program where I worked in a laboratory
much like this one
where I dealt with
genes and gene expression and genomics.
The three years that I spent
at the lab and at
other activities
have given me other skills like teamwork, good leadership skills.
So I think that these things will help me in the future in any field I go. Yale is an institution where all faculty,
including many of the world's most
distinguished scholars share in the intellectual development of its undergraduate
students.
You get the professors when you need them.
The faculty to student ratio is amazing. They really enjoy giving
knowledge to the students.
They really enjoy embracing the passions that we have and directing them,
you know, down the right path. It's an amazing feeling
that you're amongst giants of their field. You can also ask them
about what they think about an issue,
and the point is that it's not going to be a second-hand recycled opinion.
It's going to be the opinion of a person
who actually shapes the way the discipline develops, who actually writes books that influence
the way people think.
Learning is a constant at Yale
both inside and outside the classroom,
developing skills and experiences that will stay with you for a lifetime.
I really think that the best way to meet people here is is to join extracurricular organizations.
You can always find your own niche.
You know, there's no particular sterotype at Yale, and that's what I really loved about it
was a really international student-friendly place.
I still remember that day when I came
to walked on the campus and
I would meet all sorts of students who were shouting names and, you know, joking and singing and, you know,
scribbling with chalk on the walkways,
and it was just
such a pleasant experience. I felt so at home. I could walk into a dining hall and see
twenty students that I knew,
and I could go and sit with them. The competition here is really not against anyone else but
against yourself,
and it's everybody. Everybody competes with themselves, which is what inspires everyone
else to do their best.
And what that
causes is
to have very humble
but very
smart and very ambitious people working all together. I wanted a place where
there was campus life, but at the same time I was scared that I would feel really isolated,
so I wanted a place that was
in the city
like New Haven, which is a great city in terms of diversity by the way. There's all kinds of food.
But also a nice campus life,
and I think that Yale is the perfect compromise between an urban setting and a campus.
Yeah, New Haven is now my second home.
The office of international students and scholars is a central point for academic and personal support
while attending Yale.
From the first days of orientation week
to well after graduation
Yale is committed to the success of every one of its international students.
Yale is one of the few places where
you can sit at a bench with five people and have eight countries represented and twelve
languages, and that's
amazing to learn from because people bring
a variety and a range
of ideas and modes of thinking and cultures
to you that
you would otherwise not be exposed to. One needn't feel that,
you know, the cost is
prohibitive, that
they shouldn't even bother applying to Yale because of the cost.
Yale is interested in admitting the very best students
from anywhere in the world
regardless of their ability to pay.
Yale's admission policy is need-blind.
All students, including international students, are admitted on the basis of academic and personal
merit
without any regard for their ability to pay.
Yale is committed to meeting one hundred percent of the student's demonstrated financial need.
In addition to scholarships,
there are substantive on-campus employment opportunities
including research in Yale's laboratories, classrooms, and clinics.
If you get into Yale, come.
You can literally
see the top
of the world
get together
and try to do its best.
They give you the best education that you can get
At the not so worst you can be
whatever you want.
And you know, something that has been
the dream of mine since I was very young was to go back home to Serbia and
be a leader in my own country.
And if there is one place in the world that can equip you with all the skills and
principles to affect the
right type of change,
it would be Yale.
I encourage you all to
come here and give it a chance.
You can go beyond yourself,
pushing the limits of excellence every day.
And that's been something that I don't think I could have gotten anywhere else.
That was from the heart, that was very good. No, it's true. I love Yale.