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*Diversity at Yale College, 2020–2021 A Yale’s most valuable resource is not its libraries or its laboratories, but its student body—a community with a remarkable range of experiences and aspirations, talents and abilities, backgrounds and identities. Diversity is an essential component of a Yale education. In the words of Yale College Dean Marvin Chun, “Diversity is the foundation for innovation, strength, and resilience. When a community is diverse, individuals thrive.”

Diversity of thought enables every undergraduate to explore courses in more than 80 majors without the restrictions of a core curriculum.

Diversity of identity, culture, and community

enriches every interaction in every campus space, from seminar tables to cultural celebrations, from religious observances to political demonstrations. Yale Mission Statement Diversity of perspective brings a world of experiences to Yale and the Yale experience to every Yale is committed to corner of the globe. improving the world today and for future generations Socioeconomic diversity ensures that cost is through outstanding research never a barrier to assembling the most promising and scholarship, education, students from every background. preservation, and practice. Yale educates aspiring leaders Diversity of experience prepares students for worldwide who serve all positions of leadership and impact in any field. sectors of society. We carry out this mission through the Diverse futures await Yale graduates, who free exchange of ideas in an define success on their own terms and make ethical, interdependent, and significant contributions to every community diverse community of faculty, they join. staff, students, and alumni.

3 Majors in Yale College Diversity of Thought. African American Studies German Studies The undergraduate curriculum includes several careers in academia, by providing paid research Yale students pursue a personalized African Studies Global Affairs programs that promote scholarship through opportunities and loan repayment assistance. academic journey, drawing on American Studies Greek, Ancient & Modern multicultural lenses. Yale’s Center for the Study of Anthropology History more than 80 majors and programs. Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, for Yale faculty come from around the world, Applied Mathematics History of Art The curriculum’s breadth compels example, supports intellectual work related to ethnic bringing exceptional scholarship and diverse Applied Physics History of Science, Medicine, studies; intersectional race, gender, and sexuality experiences to the classroom, with a commitment Archaeological Studies & Public Health students to expand their under- research; and Native and diasporic communities. to teaching and mentoring undergraduates. Architecture Humanities standing of complex topics and Art Italian Yale supports members of historically under- Astronomy Judaic Studies make connections across seemingly Astrophysics Latin American Studies represented groups with programs designed to Chemistry Linguistics disparate ways of thinking. increase student participation in cutting-edge “I’ve been amazed by the support at Yale. My academic adviser was very helpful when it Classical Civilization Mathematics research. The Science, Technology, and Research Classics Mathematics & Philosophy came time to choose classes and think about No two students take the same path through their Scholars (STARS) program supports women, Cognitive Science Mathematics & Physics summer plans. She advised me to think about course work, even if they share the same major. minority, and economically underprivileged Comparative Literature Modern Middle East Studies With more than 2,000 courses offered each academic students in the STEM fields. The Mellon Mays and the future but focus on the now. As a First-Year Computer Science Molecular Biophysics & year—and no core curriculum—it’s easy to combine Edward A. Bouchet Fellowships aim to increase the Liaison at the Native American Cultural Center Computer Science & Biochemistry multiple academic passions and discover entirely number of minority students—and students com- (NACC), I’m able to support my peers as well.” Economics Molecular, Cellular, & Madeleine Freeman new areas of interest. mitted to eliminating racial disparities—who pursue History Major Computer Science & Developmental Biology Mathematics Music Computer Science & Near Eastern Languages Psychology & Civilizations Computing & the Arts Neuroscience Earth & Planetary Sciences Philosophy “Academic excellence and diversity East Asian Languages & Physics Literatures Physics & Geosciences are mutually constitutive. One cannot East Asian Studies Physics & Philosophy fully realize one without the other. In Ecology & Evolutionary Political Science an age of increasing globalization and Biology Portuguese cultural heterogeneity, leadership and Economics Psychology scholarly insight require awareness, Economics & Mathematics Religious Studies Electrical Engineering & Russian insight, and experience that are Computer Science Russian & East European often best gained in interactive and Engineering: Biomedical, Studies diverse environments. Yale’s student, Chemical, Electrical, Sociology faculty, and staff communities have Environmental, or South Asian Studies* Mechanical Spanish been particularly welcoming and Engineering Sciences: Special Divisional Major stimulating, and I believe that Chemical, Electrical, Statistics & Data Science many unexpected and productive Environmental, or Theater & Performance avenues start from within such often Mechanical Studies English Urban Studies interpersonal collaborations.” Environmental Studies Women’s, Gender, & Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) Ethics, Politics, & Economics Sexuality Studies Professor of History and American Studies Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Film & Media Studies *as a second major only French

4 5 House-Affiliated Student Organizations

African Students Malaysian & Singaporean Association Association (MASA) Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity MEChA American Indian Science & Mexican Student Engineering Society Organization Arab Students Association Middle Eastern & North Asian American Students African Students Alliance Association Association of Native Minority Association of Americans at Yale Premedical Students Ballet Folklórico Mexicano MonstRAASity Black Church at Yale Muslim Students Black Men’s Union Association Black Solidarity Conference National Society of Black Student Alliance Black Engineers at Yale Negative Space Black Women’s Coalition ¡Oye! Spoken Word BlackOut Queer+Asian Bridges ESL Racial & Ethnic Openness C# at Yale (a cappella) Club Chinese American Students Red Territory Association Rhythmic Blue Club Colombia (hip hop dance) De Colores (LGBTQ Latinx Sabrosura Latin Dance Four cultural houses—the Afro-American Cultural Chaplain’s Office supports more than thirty religious organization) Shades (a cappella) Center, Asian American Cultural Center, La Casa and spiritual traditions at Yale, coordinating multiple Despierta Boricua Society of Hispanic Diversity of Dominican Student Professional Engineers Cultural, and Native American Cultural Center—are daily services, faith centers, faith-conscious kitchens, Association South Asian Society central to much of student life at Yale. They provide and student-led organizations. Identity, Culture, DOWN Magazine Sri Lankan Students at Yale space for students, faculty, and staff with shared Dzana (Afrobeats dance) Steppin’ Out (step team) and Community. interests, cultures, and experiences to come together, These spaces and communities empower Yale Hangarak (a cappella) Students of Mixed Heritage have fun, and contribute to the discourse on campus students to explore who they are and where they’ve Henry Roe Cloud Conference Students of the Diaspora Recognizing that people are around issues of diversity, identity, and social justice. come from. No matter where students’ journeys of & Powwow Sube (Latinx business & The centers are a home base for dozens of affiliated identity take them, they will make lasting friendships, Heritage Theater Ensemble leadership association) multidimensional, Yale’s cultural organizations, from performance groups and gain support from others, and learn something new Hindu Students Organization Taiwanese American and resource centers encourage publications, to Greek-letter organizations, to about themselves. Indian Health Initiative Society social and political action groups. Immigrant History Project Teeth Slam Poets all students to engage, explore, Indonesia Yale Association Undergraduate Association Japanese American Students for African Peace & and expand their cultural Students also engage with dedicated resource Union Development understanding, forging bonds centers designed to meet the needs of Yale’s diverse “When I organized the annual Cultural Show Jashan Bhangra Urban Improvement Corps community. The Office of International Students and for the Chinese American Students Association, and creating community with Jook Songs Vietnamese Students Scholars provides advising, mentoring, immigration I learned that all it took to be a part of the Asian people from all different Kalaa (Indian classical Association (ViSA) assistance, and academic and social support to stu- American community at Yale was genuine dance) WORD Performance Poetry backgrounds. dents from abroad. The Office of LGBTQ Resources appreciation of the culture. I also recognized that Korean American Students Yale Christian Fellowship sponsors outreach and education on issues of sexual culture is a shared experience of a people, but each at Yale Yale Gospel Choir orientation and gender identity. The Women’s Center individual’s experience is unique and distinct.” La Unidad Latina Yale Rangeela Cassandra Hsiao is committed to improving the lives of all women, Theater & Performance Studies and Latina Women at Yale League of Black Scientists and more especially those at Yale and in New Haven. The Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Major

6 7 “For me, the most intriguing part of Diversity of Perspective. diversity at Yale isn’t our differences— Yale’s residential colleges serve as Yale’s residential colleges provide countless outside traditional departments: recent seminar it’s the similarities. I look out into my opportunities for students to learn from those topics include geoengineering in response to lecture hall, and I realize I’m speaking microcosms of the entire student around them. Before arriving on campus, each climate change; digital media activism; and hip to students with different histories, incoming student is randomly assigned to one of hop music and culture. body, making the university’s with diverse values and experiences. fourteen residential college communities. Students global scope accessible in a small, Yet all of the students I talk to are remain affiliated with their college throughout their Any Yale student or graduate will agree that supportive setting. Each college undergraduate years and long after graduation. late-night conversations with suitemates, political deeply similar in one critical respect— reflects, in miniature, the diversity Each houses about 400–500 students who repre- debates with friends in the college courtyard, and Yalies share an incredible curiosity. And that love of learning acts as a of the student body: sent a cross-section of class years, majors, interests, dinners shared with faculty fellows are as enrich- backgrounds, and ambitions. A residential college ing a part of a Yale education as the course work. remarkable equalizer. Yale students’ 1,554 in the Class 63% attended public is both a home away from home and a nexus for shared passions almost always allow of 2023 high school changing one’s perspective on the world. them to transcend even the most 50 states 64% receive financial striking of differences. And that to me assistance Much more than just a place to eat and sleep, “At an event at the medical school, I struck up a 57 countries is the best part of being in a diverse 20% are Pell Grant recipients residential colleges host dozens of events that conversation with a Yale professor and found 50% men community here at Yale—it’s the real- bring community members together. College out that years ago, he was also a first-year in my 30% major in the Arts and ization that what we share very often 50% women Humanities Teas give students an opportunity to have casual residential college, Timothy Dwight! We got to know each other better, and I later interviewed to overwhelms what makes us different.” 51% minority students 35% major in the Social conversations with world leaders, thinkers, and Laurie Santos Sciences artists. Student activity committees in each college join his lab, where I’m working on cutting-edge Professor of Psychology and 13% international students immunology research.” Head of Silliman College 34% major in STEM lead subsidized excursions to Broadway shows, art 17% first-generation Nishanth Krishnan exhibitions, and cultural events. Residential College Molecular, Cellular, & four-year college students 11% have double majors Seminars provide innovative courses that fall Developmental Biology Major

8 9 Socioeconomic Diversity. More than fifty years ago, Yale Many students who come from lower-income households or who are the first in their families became the first American university to attend college engage with the first-generation to combine a need-blind admissions low-income (FGLI) Community Initiative, a policy with a commitment to meet collaboration between students and administrators. It provides students with financial, academic, and the full financial need of every social support, and empowers them to pursue student. This tradition of equity leadership opportunities on campus. and inclusion continues today; Yale Financial Aid Awards meet 100% of a student’s nearly two thirds of students demonstrated financial need, without requiring loans. receive financial assistance. And with no strict deadlines or cutoffs, Yale’s financial aid can adjust to a family’s changing circumstances. Yale’s extraordinary investment in affordability ensures that every admitted student can attend, For students receiving financial aid, Yale created Financial Aid Snapshot for the Class of 2023 regardless of their parents’ income, their citizenship, the International Summer Award, which provides a or their immigration status. These policies reduce stipend of up to $14,500 for a Yale experience abroad, Annual Income Median Median Aid Applicants the burden on students and enrich the undergradu- and the Domestic Summer Award, which provides Range Net Cost Scholarship Who Qualified ate community in immeasurable ways. The myriad $4,000 stipends to students who pursue unpaid and complex experiences students bring to campus internships, research jobs, and arts apprenticeships. Less than $65,000 $2,850 $76,925 100% facilitate vital conversations, informed policy debates, and valuable learning opportunities. The total cost of attendance for 2020–2021— $65,000–$100,000 $5,701 $70,217 99% including tuition, room, meals, books, and personal expenses—is $78,850, but the average scholarship $100,000–$150,000 $15,528 $60,295 99% covers more than two thirds of this cost, and hundreds of Yale families have no expected parent “Yale has seen socioeconomic mobility $150,000–$200,000 $29,721 $46,326 95% share. In three minutes or less, anyone can estimate as a central pillar of its mission since their Yale cost using the Quick Cost Estimator, a $200,000–$250,000 $42,964 $31,196 79% its earliest days, and the American six-question tool at admissions.yale.edu/affordable.

Dream is very much alive here. As a Greater than $250,000* $43,704 $28,881 25% product of that dream myself, I am inspired by it. I am committed to preserving it. I am thankful that Yale’s *Most who qualify have multiple children in college. financial aid policies and practices $ average55,100 Yale need-based sustain and propel its promise. It is scholarship in 2019–2020 my hope—indeed my conviction—that Yale students will continue to ensure that the dream of a better life will be woven permanently into the fabric of our societies around the world.” Peter Salovey of the85 Class% of 2020 President of Yale University graduated with zero loan debt

10 11 combined my interests in studied Arabic or been to the development, climate change, Middle East, but engaging Diversity of Experience. and international relations. with the local people, visiting I am grateful for the support non-tourist places like a A Yale education extends far of the Edward A. Bouchet Palestinian refugee camp and beyond a major, a collection of Undergraduate Fellowship an orphanage, and meeting courses, or the boundaries of Program, which provided with international activists funding and also connected who are fighting for refugee Jorge Lema Aïssa Guindo campus. Yale-facilitated programs me to mentors on campus integration and gender Cognitive Science Major and activities around the world Political Science Major and beyond who helped equality quickly improved my take students out of their comfort After my first year I participated me with my research along After my first year I interned language skills and under- the way. at a pharmaceutical company standing of the culture and zones and provide wonderfully in a Yale-sponsored language immersion program. The first in Seoul. I had just started society of the area. Physically unexpected opportunities for four weeks were in New Haven, taking elementary Korean being in the place of my growth and discovery. followed by four weeks in Paris. and was excited to practice academic interests greatly As a student on full financial aid, my new language skills while broadened my perspective and No two Yale students take the same path on their I received funding through the working at the intersection of clarified my academic goals. undergraduate journey, and every student’s journey International Summer Award science and human resources takes them somewhere new. More than 70% of (ISA), which covered nearly at a major company. The members of the most recent graduating class partici- all my expenses. I took two Office of Career Strategy and pated in study, research, or internships abroad, and French courses, lived with a host the Fellowships Office—both many students pursue areas of interest outside their family, and traveled to Brussels, part of the Yale Center for Melissa Kropf majors. International experiences are accessible to all Normandy, and many quintessen- International and Professional Experience—made the entire students regardless of class year, major, or financial tial Parisian destinations like the History Major need, and students can connect with experienced Louvre and La Seine. The memo- experience possible, by During the summer after my advisers at Yale’s Center for International and ries I created along the way with providing résumé help first year, I participated in an Professional Experience in their very first semester. my fellow program participants, and financial support for advanced Spanish language Arizona Greene my professors, and the Parisians my travels. program and Peruvian culture I befriended were the most course that included one Applied Mathematics valuable part of the experience. month of study in New Haven Major “Diversity is illustrated by differing and one month in Lima, Peru. I studied Mandarin in perspectives, conflicting opinions, I had never been outside of Beijing and Harbin, China, the United States before, so in on a gap year with funding distinct backgrounds, and unique addition to speaking Span- from the Richard U. Light ways of looking at the world, all ish with native speakers, I Fellowship. In the break of which are critical to the Yale enjoyed being able to explore between my two language experience. The remarkable diversity the city, try new foods, programs, I also spent four of this student population, combined and experience a different Yuki Hayasaka weeks making my way 1,600 with undergraduates’ intense culture. Our time in Peru also miles through western China Ethnicity, Race, & curiosity and drive, makes Yale an Jinchen Zou included a week traveling in alone. I learned a lot in my Migration Major incredibly exciting place to learn.” and around Cuzco, where we language courses, but the Stephen Pitti Global Affairs and were able to climb to the top I spent two months in most exciting and memorable Professor of History Economics & Mathematics Major and American Studies and Associate Head of of Machu Picchu. I’ll never Amman, Jordan, where I took moments all came from Ezra Stiles College I spent five weeks in Fiji and forget looking down on the traditional and colloquial interacting with people I met Kiribati doing field research on ancient civilization as the sun Arabic classes and interned by chance, many of whom I climate migration. The project set around us. at a local NGO. I had never still keep in touch with today.

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