I recently spoke at the conference at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies about what it is like to be an international/Russian at Yale. I did some research before and thought I would share some of it. Here is some food for thought:
Yale’s undergraduate international enrollment is around 8%; some colleges in the US have as much as 15%.
Yale’s international students come from over 70 countries. My tiny international school in Hong Kong had representatives from 80-something countries in a student body of 220 or so.
One Ukrainian, two Georgian and no Russian students were admitted to the class of 2012 (according to those who have access to the admits website). It is unknown how many of them will choose Yale.
Here is a link to the blog some internationals in the US may find useful.
And here is a link to an post about international admissions at Williams. There is a lot I would like to say about it, but I am trying to make some progress on my paper on the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. Once I get am done with writing a prognosis for Ukraine’s failed democracy, I will certainly blog more.
