Personal Experience: My Anwers to Yale's Application Questions

Yale:

1.) What in particular about Yale has influenced your decision to apply? (Please answer in 100 words or less.)

Every time I visit the SEAS campus, it feels immediately familiar. Yale is about family within family. I can easily picture myself living and growing on Old Campus, with its Georgian architecture and grassy lawns, or in Saybrook, with its student kitchen and computer cluster. I can imagine stepping into Mason Lab or the Malone Engineering Center next year, ready to work on a research project in the company of peers and professors just as excited as I am. The fun and intimacy of its residential colleges and the sheer scope of its research opportunities make Yale my top choice.

2.)Please respond in 150 characters (roughly 25 words) or fewer to each of the questions below:

a. You have been granted a free weekend next month. How will you spend it?

I will invite my closest friends over for our annual cookie party and gingerbread house competition. It's been our tradition for the past four years.

b. What is something about which you have changed your mind in the last three years?

I used to think volunteering was about helping others, but I've realized that often I benefit from the experience even more than the people I “serve.”

c. What is the best piece of advice you have received while in high school?

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

d. What do you wish you were better at being or doing?

Tennis is a game of precision and muscle memory, creativity and point construction. I truly love the sport and hope to keep practicing and improving.

e. What is a learning experience, in or out of the classroom, that has had a significant impact on you?

Last year, my grandpa and I built a tr...

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Yale also offers many fantastic clubs that appeal to my professional and social interests, such as the ASME and the SWE. I enjoy writing and service, so I also plan to get involved in student publications like the Yale Scientific Magazine and organizations like Engineers without Borders. Yale's unique geographical location and sociocultural place in the American psyche make it the perfect platform for social action. New Haven's legacy, historical and modern, lies not in its streets or its commercial districts, but in its community--here we can pool our resources and effect real change across the globe.

In the MEMS department, I can pursue my interests through a variety of avenues: research, community service, writing groups, and interactions with brilliant professors. I would love to call Yale home.