Di-ver-si-ty, n.*

*Define yourself at Yale, 2015–2016 1 We’ve designed this piece to make you think. Our aim is not simply to provide our take on diversity, but also to motivate you to consider the idea for yourself. You may believe that you already know what we’re going to say about diversity at Yale, and you may bring thoughts of your own about diversity to measure ours against. With this in mind, here’s a preliminary exercise that may be productive. Take out a pen and, in the empty box below, write down a few thoughts in response to these questions:

How is Yale going to define “diversity”?

How would I define it?

Not feeling 100% satisfied with what you’ve written? Neither were we when we sent this piece o≠ to the printing press. Among other things, a liberal education is a liberating education. Your definitions are always going to be working definitions, subject to continual dissatisfaction and revision. Read on to see how far we got this time.

2 1 diverse futures At Yale, we think broadly about the word diversity, religious ministries, and campus resource centers Finally, Yalies experience wildly , and we see it manifest in countless ways here in serve as spaces in which Yalies share and explore a pursuing multiple careers and undertaking numerous New Haven. stunning array of faiths, traditions, and identities. meaningful roles across society throughout their lives after Yale. Our alumni span the globe, forging Diversity. Diversity of thought Diversity of perspective powers our classrooms means that you will a network that recent graduates can easily plug into We hear that word a lot and labs, where Yale students bring varied learn as much outside of the classroom as you do whether they are seeking jobs in business, medicine, on campus, and we bet it’s academic interests and intellectual strengths to inside. It means that, on a campus replete with law, social justice, engineering, academia, education, turning up everywhere in bear on collaborative, world-class scholarship. resources and opportunities of a truly global scope, or any number of other sectors. you may wind up gaining your most significant Socioeconomic diversity your college search. But means that we knowledge about the world from the peers who We hope you’ll continue reading to learn how these what do people actually draw these brilliant minds from every conceivable surround you on a daily basis—in your dining hall, various forms of diversity unfold on Yale’s campus. mean when they talk about background all over the world, and that we provide on the intramural sports fields, or right at home We’ve included some useful statistics along the way to ample resources to ensure that (a) Yale is a financially in your residential college suite. give you a concrete sense of our student body and the diversity? Is diversity a viable option for any admitted student and (b) no opportunities available to them. We also approached Diversity of experience concept? a quality? a value? Yale student will be burdened by loans upon will eventually lead you some members of the Yale faculty for their definitions And why is it so important graduation. outside of that residential college to explore beyond of diversity, and their thoughtful responses are woven New Haven through travel fellowships, research and through this piece. We hope these faculty reflections Diversity of identity, culture, and community to so many communities? internship opportunities abroad, or international will broaden your outlook and introduce you to some saturates the Yale fabric, creating dialogue, art, music, service and social justice projects. These experiences of the voices here on campus. (As you might imagine, dance, delicious meals, and celebratory gatherings in will prepare you to become a leader in any field, even across this world-renowned group of professional every nook and cranny of campus. Cultural houses, anywhere in the world. scholars, no two impressions of diversity are alike!)

2 3 Majors in Yale College Diversity of Thought. African American Studies German India, while another may be researching the e≠ects The Science, Technology, and Research The diversity of minds at Yale African Studies German Studies of the Occupy Wall Street movement on real estate Scholars (STARS) program supports women as is rivaled by the diversity of American Studies Global Affairs in Lower Manhattan. The possibilities are endless, well as minority, economically underprivileged, Anthropology Greek, Ancient & Modern academic opportunities available as are the opportunities to gain new insights from and other historically underrepresented students Applied Mathematics History to undergraduates. For starters, your classmates. in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics, Applied Physics History of Art while the Mellon-Bouchet fellowship programs Archaeological Studies History of Science, there are 80+ majors from which In addition to Yale’s long list of majors, students aim to increase the number of minority Architecture Medicine, & Public Health to choose, and 13% of students engage a host of disciplinary concentrations and students—as well as students committed to Art Humanities Astronomy Italian unique programs committed to fostering diversity eliminating racial disparities—who pursue pursue a double major. Astrophysics Judaic Studies on campus. Several interdisciplinary majors careers in academia. Biomedical Engineering Latin American Studies encourage students to approach their academic Chemical Engineering Linguistics Students may also design their own course of work through a multicultural lens, including Finally, Yale’s renowned faculty inspires Chemistry Literature study through the Special Divisional Major. Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; African American diversity of thought. Our professors come Classical Civilization Mathematics But the breadth of scholarship goes beyond Studies; East Asian Studies; Latin American from around the world, bringing richly varied Classics: Greek, Latin, or Mathematics & Philosophy our list of majors, since no two students with Studies; and Global A≠airs. Students in the experiences and expertise to our scholarly Greek & Latin Mathematics & Physics the same major have exactly the same focus. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major community and demonstrating uncommon Cognitive Science Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Modern Middle East Studies For example, one Economics major may study frame their research with questions pertaining commitment to teaching and mentoring Computer Science & Molecular Biophysics & the financial culture of open-air markets in to social identity and human relationships. undergraduates. Mathematics Biochemistry Computer Science & Molecular, Cellular, & Psychology Developmental Biology Computing & the Arts Music East Asian Languages & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures: Chinese or Civilizations “Academic excellence and diversity Japanese Philosophy are mutually constitutive. One cannot East Asian Studies Physics fully realize one without the other. In Ecology & Evolutionary Physics & Geosciences an age of increasing globalization and Biology Physics & Philosophy Economics Political Science cultural heterogeneity, leadership and Economics & Mathematics Portuguese scholarly insight require awareness, Electrical Engineering Psychology insight, and experience that are Electrical Engineering & Religious Studies often best gained in interactive and Computer Science Russian Engineering Sciences: Russian & East European diverse environments. Yale’s student, Chemical, Electrical, Studies faculty, and sta≠ communities have Environmental, or Sociology been particularly welcoming and Mechanical South Asian Studies* stimulating, and I believe that English Spanish Environmental Engineering Special Divisional Major many unexpected and productive Environmental Studies Statistics avenues start from within such often Ethics, Politics, & Theater Studies interpersonal collaborations.” Economics Women’s, Gender, & Ned Blackhawk Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Sexuality Studies Professor of History and Film & Media Studies American Studies French *May be taken only as a Geology & Geophysics second major. Geology & Natural Resources

4 5 Who Goes to Yale? Socioeconomic Diversity. Class of 2018 (Includes U.S. citizens and Our admissions committee • The average need-based • Families earning between Budgeting $119 million per year for permanent residents only, is need-blind and makes all Yale Scholarship grant for the $65,000 and $200,000 annually financial aid, Yale is one of the most expressed as a percentage decisions without regard for 2014–2015 academic year was (with typical assets) contribute of the total incoming class.) a≠ordable colleges in the country— a student’s ability to pay. In $42,200. a percentage of their yearly significantly less costly than attending a fact, in its e≠orts to maintain income toward their child’s Yale Total enrolled freshmen: 1,361 such a high standard of • 50% of Yale students receive education, on a sliding scale that top public university for many students, African American: 9.8% socioeconomic diversity, the need-based financial aid. begins at 1% for incomes just Asian American: 19.7% including in-state residents. Because Yale University considers especially above $65,000 and moves toward Hispanic: 11.8% meets 100% of every admitted student’s carefully the applications of • The total cost of attendance 20% at the $200,000 level. In Native American: 2.6% students from low-income at Yale for 2015–2016 is $65,725, many cases a travel allowance is White: 62.5% demonstrated financial need (with an aid backgrounds. which includes tuition ($47,600), also provided. Note: Categories do not add up to room ($8,200), board ($6,400), package that does not require them to take 100% because 17% of freshmen You can read about Yale’s and books and personal expenses • There is no strict income out loans), our undergraduate community indicated two or more ethnicities outstanding financial aid ($3,525). Total cost of attendance cuto≠ for financial aid awards. and are therefore counted in more assembles the world’s most talented young program in detail and use our (not just tuition) is used to Many families with more than than one category. A total of 39% minds from every socioeconomic background. Net Price Calculator to estimate calculate a student’s need-based $200,000 in annual income of freshmen are students of color. your cost of attendance at financial aid award. receive need-based aid from Yale. admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid. For now, here are some key Who Qualifies for Financial Aid? points: “Yale has seen socioeconomic mobility as a Half of Yale College students qualify for a need-based financial aid award. The table central pillar of its mission since its earliest • Yale is committed to a below shows average parental contributions for families with various levels of income. Students also make a modest contribution from summer and term-time job earnings. days, and the American Dream is very much need-blind admissions policy Read more about the Yale Financial Aid package at admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid. alive here. As a product of that dream myself, and meets 100% of demonstrated I am inspired by it. I am committed to need for all admitted students, Annual Percentage Average Grant Average Number of regardless of citizenship. preserving it. I am thankful that Yale’s financial Income Who Qualified (from all Parental Families at Yale aid policies and practices sustain and propel Range for Aid sources*) Contribution (2014–2015) • Yale Financial Aid Awards its promise. There are students here from all do not include loans. Instead, walks of life. Theirs will be the generation that 100% of a student’s financial $65,000 or less 100% $54,850 $0 639** helps to develop a more complex vision of the need is met with a Yale grant $65,000– 100% $50,800 $5,600 511 American Dream, one that both moves beyond and opportunities for student $100,000 social mobility and also includes living a employment. $100,000– 99% $42,850 $12,650 728 life of growth, meaning, and significance. $150,000 A≠ordable education and opportunities for • Families whose total gross $150,000– income is less than $65,000 99% $28,700 $27,500 428 fulfilling work are essential for this vision. It $200,00 is my hope—indeed my conviction—that Yale annually (with typical assets) are not expected to make a financial students will continue to ensure that the dream *All sources include Yale’s need-based scholarship and other need-based aid sources contribution toward their child’s of a better life will be woven permanently into such as Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and state grants. Yale education. One hundred ** Due to either extraordinary assets or University policies related to the calculation of the fabric of our societies around the world.” percent of the student’s total cost Peter Salovey incomes earned in currencies other than U.S. dollars, an additional 220 families who had President of Yale University of attendance will be financed estimated incomes below $65,000 did not qualify for a $0 parental contribution. These with a Yale Financial Aid Award. families’ unique circumstances resulted in significantly varied parental contributions.

6 7 House-Affiliated Student Organizations

African Students Association Math and Science (MAS) Alianza (pan-Latino group) Familias Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Mexican Student Organization American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students Amigas (Yale Latinas mentor Latina high schoolers) Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán Arab Student Association (MEChA) Asian American Students Muslim Students Association Alliance NAACP (Yale chapter) Association of Native Americans at Yale National Society of Black Engineers Ballet Folklórico Mexicano ¡Oye! (spoken word) Black Church at Yale Phoenix Dance Troupe Black Solidarity Conference PorColombia Black Student Alliance at Yale Raga Society (Indian classical music) Black Women’s Coalition Rhythmic Blue Blue Feather Drum Group (Hip-Hop dance) Bridges (English language Sabrosura: Latino Student lessons) Dance at Yale Chinese American Students Shades (a cappella) Association South Asian Film Society De Colores (LGBTQ Four Cultural Houses—the Afro-American Cultural advisers, local host families, and peer mentors, to Latin@ organization) Steppin’ Out (step team) Center, Native American Cultural Center, La Casa Yale’s international student population. The O∞ce Diversity of Despierta Boricua Students of Mixed Heritage Cultural, and Asian American Cultural Center— of LGBTQ Resources and the LGBT Co-op sponsor (Puerto Rican undergraduate and Culture Identity, Culture, root the many branches of cultural life at Yale. Each outreach and education on issues of sexual orienta- organization) Taiwanese American Society sponsors student organizations and performance tion and gender identity for the whole University Dominican Student ¡Teatro! and Community. groups, academic support and advising, peer liaisons, community, working with member organizations on Association Undergraduate Native leadership training, social outreach and service campus projects, discussions, and programming. Hindu Students Council American Arts Council Yale students represent a opportunities, political forums, lectures, and alumni The Women’s Center, which is open to students of all Hispanic Scholars Urban Improvement Corps gatherings. These are spaces in which students genders, is a space committed to improving the lives of Foundation (Yale chapter) Vietnamese Students vibrant and dense fabric of explore who they are and where they’ve come from, all women, especially those at Yale and in New Haven. Japanese American Association (ViSA) personal identities and cultural make lasting friendships, and gain a tremendous Finally, the Chaplain’s O∞ce supports more than Students Union West Indian Students amount of support to help them thrive at Yale. thirty diverse religious and spiritual traditions at Yale, Jashan Bhangra Team Organization backgrounds, and there is a See the sidebar on the facing page for a selection coordinating multiple daily services, faith centers, (South Asian dance) WORD Performance Poetry vast network of opportunities of student organizations a∞liated with Yale’s a∞liated social and service clubs, publications, faith- Jook Songs (Asian- Ya Yue Chinese Dance American theater group) through which to express and Cultural Houses—you’ll quickly see that four Houses conscious kitchens, and a wide variety of events and Troupe generate dozens of homes for students on campus, parties sponsored by campus faith groups. Konjo! African Dance Troupe Yale Christian Fellowship explore oneself on campus. and that multiculturalism is a hallmark of the Yale Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Yale Gospel Choir undergraduate experience. While Yale is proud of these “home bases,” we are Korean Literature Club Yale Medical Professions even more proud of the eagerness with which Yalies La Fuerza Outreach In addition to Yale’s Cultural Houses, several resource make connections across many di≠erent communities Latin American Students Yale Rangeela centers anchor a constellation of student groups and on campus. Recognizing that human beings are Organization (fusion dance) events pertaining to identity and faith on campus. multidimensional, Yale’s resource centers encourage Latino Business Coalition Yale Wushu (martial arts) The O∞ce of International Students and Scholars all students to engage, explore, and expand their range Malaysian and Singaporean Association (MASA) and more o≠ers numerous services and programs, as well as of identities and cultural experiences while in college.

8 9 Mitchell Jones in for the past two years, see more wanted to follow in my father’s university while taking advantage Class year 2016 of what it has to o≠er, and meet footsteps and be an Air Force of all the resources a school like Major local residents. Writing about fighter pilot. When I arrived Yale has to o≠er. Economics and Political transportation meetings, library at Yale, the newly reinstated Science Nya Holder Hometown openings, and political campaigns Detachment 009 allowed me to Dayton, OH Class year has helped me better understand pursue my goals while earning 2016 What really gives insight into my Major Yale’s impact on New Haven, and the best education in the world! Psychology life at Yale are the communities how well the two are integrated. Hometown Tobias Holden Bronx, NY where I spend my extracurricular When I return to campus in the Class year I remember the first Sunday that time, especially the Afr0-American fall, I’ll have a bigger sphere of 2017 Cultural Center, or the “House,” Major I wandered into the University space that I can call home. Molecular, Cellular, & and the Yale Black Men’s Union Church in Yale (UCY). It was my Tyler Detorie Developmental Biology “For me, the most intriguing part of (BMU). This past year I was Hometown first time at a nondenominational Class year Greenville, SC church, and I wasn’t sure what diversity at Yale isn’t our di≠erences—it’s vice-president of the BMU, which 2016 aims to empower black males on Major As soon as I arrived at Yale I to expect, but I fell in love with the similarities. Yale students come from Mechanical Engineering and o≠ Yale’s campus through Hometown found a home away from home the unique worship style that such di≠erent parts of the world. I look Canton, CT unity, support, and service. Being in Trumbull College. Starting incorporated elements from other out into my lecture hall, and I realize able to feel the support of the My first day as a Yale Bulldog freshman year I served on the cultures and sermons that invited I’m speaking to students with di≠erent larger community when the BMU was unforgettable. Fall athletes Trumbull College Council, which us to reflect on spiritual texts. At histories, with diverse values and went on national television for typically report to New Haven works with the Master and Dean UCY people took the time to get experiences. Yet all of the students I #Blacklivesmatter, or when earlier than regular students for to plan free trips, festivals, and to know me, and they genuinely talk to are deeply similar in one critical we mentor sixth graders at a preseason, and I walked onto the dances. Weekdays after class I cared about how I was doing. respect—Yalies share an incredible local school, has truly made the soccer field not knowing a single help Trumbull in the fight for That’s why I became a student curiosity. And that love of learning acts as House’s place in my life special. person besides the coach. From the Tyng Cup on the field and deacon at the end of freshman that moment on, the soccer in the pool as a member of our year, to foster this sense of a remarkable equalizer. In my experience, Stephanie Addenbrooke program at Yale became my in-Trum-mural soccer, swimming, community. I also help coordinate Yale students’ shared passions almost Class year new family, and my teammates and inner-tube water polo teams, service opportunities like Chapel always allow them to transcend even 2017 Major and coaches were paramount and late nights you can find me on the Green, where we prepare the most striking of di≠erences. And English Hometown in making the transition to serving up cheap, cheesy treats and serve lunch at a service for Birkenhead, England that to me is the best part of being in a a collegiate student-athlete. in the “buttery.” Even better than the homeless on the New Haven diverse community here at Yale—it’s the During the school year I’m Regardless of scores or outcomes, study break snacks is family night Green. From evening prayers to realization that what we share very often involved with the Yale Daily News, soccer gave me the opportunity dinner on Sundays, when all church retreats, I found my first overwhelms what makes us di≠erent.” and I interned this summer at one to make lifelong friends. As the Trumbull students eat together church community in UCY, a Laurie Santos Professor of Psychology of New Haven’s local newspapers, semester progressed, I found in our college dining hall. Life place that helped me grow in The Independent. I was able to another family in the Air Force in Trumbull allows me to enjoy my faith and make some of my travel further in the city I’ve lived ROTC program. I’ve always the tight-knit feel of a smaller closest friends on campus.

10 11 Diversity of Perspective. Yale’s residential colleges are The residential college system provides a wealth The Residential College Seminar program of opportunities for students to learn from each is dedicated to the development of innovative designed to be microcosms of the other and from respected guests. As an incoming courses that fall outside of departmental “Two things strike me about diversity student body as a whole, so that freshman, each Yale student is randomly assigned structures. Courses arise through the joint in Yale College. First, the students undergraduates experience the to one of twelve residential college communities. initiative of students and faculty and have obviously and explicitly treasure the Students remain a∞liated with these communities ranged in topic from sustainable food, to global scope of the university in stunning variety of backgrounds for all four years of study, and alumni maintain digital media activism, to the art of watercolor. and viewpoints represented here. a small, supportive setting. strong college pride well beyond graduation. Second, they wrestle with how to Who goes to Yale? Mellon Forums introduce Yale seniors to the With just over 5,000 undergraduates at Yale, each community of scholars forming in their own make the most of it. We are a work 1,352 in a typical 45% from private or in progress, which is what a diverse college houses roughly 400–500 students. Not only college and class: after a catered dinner, seniors entering class parochial schools is the residential college a home away from home, present the results of their independent research place should be.” Jeff Brenzel 50 states 50% receive need-based it is also a setting filled with perspective-sharing projects to an audience of fellow seniors. Lecturer in Humanities and financial aid 80+ countries opportunities: former Master of Timothy Dwight College 29% major in the Arts and 51% men Outside the residential colleges, more than Humanities 49% women Master’s Teas are informal Q&A’s hosted by the eighty endowed lecture series provide unbounded 41% major in the Social masters of each residential college. They give small opportunities to learn from distinguished visitors 43% minority students Sciences groups of students an intimate opportunity to pick to campus. Finally, lengthy conversations with As a recent alum said, “The best thing about Yale 11% international students 30% major in the Biological the brains of world leaders, thinkers, and talents. suitemates, political debates with friends in the is the students. It was great to learn about the 14% first-generation and Physical Sciences or Recent guests have included Junot Díaz, Angélique college courtyard, dinners shared with your ultimate fate of the universe in a cosmology class, college students Engineering Kidjo, Nihad Awad, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and college’s faculty Fellows—all will be as enriching but it was even better to sit down at dinner with 55% from public schools 13% earn double majors Unni Karunakara. a part of your Yale education as your course work. some philosophy majors to sort out what it all meant.”

12 13 Belgium at Erasmus Hospital, on our water distribution system Diversity of Experience. and with funding from Yale’s project. We began construction International Bulldogs Program, of the 20,000-liter water storage “Bulldogs in Brussels,” I was tank, and we taught basic health As much as one can learn from faculty able to spend June and July lessons in the community schools in the classroom and peers in the doing research in a pathology and new vessel cleaning methods residential colleges, it is crucial for lab at a French-speaking to households. In addition to hospital in the capital of the providing hands-on engineering Jihad Womack Rushika Pattni undergraduates to expand their worldview European Union. I also traveled experience, the trip allowed me Class year Class year beyond New Haven to gain the global 2017 to Amsterdam, London, and 2015 to see firsthand the impact we are Major Major perspective necessary to be leaders in Molecular, Cellular, Paris over the weekends with History of Science, creating in the community of Roh, some of my Yale friends who Medicine, and Public Health and it was wonderful to work with & Developmental Biology Hometown the twenty-first century. For this reason, Hometown were also spending their Dar es Salaam, and learn from the residents. North Plainfield, NJ Yale College places an enormous emphasis summers abroad. Tanzania In the summer of 2014, During the summer of 2012, on international experience. I traveled to São José do Rio I spent two months in Beijing Preto, São Paulo, and Rio de for the Princeton in Beijing Sixty-six percent of Yale students pursue study or projects Janeiro for eight weeks, taking Language Program. I was abroad before graduating, and more than $6.6 million in classes in Portuguese. I also o≠ered the Light Fellowship funding is o≠ered to undergraduates each year to support volunteered at an elementary to complete an intensive their work in other countries. Many Yalies take a full semester school in Rio Preto and visited program for L3 and L4 Chinese. to pursue traditional study abroad, while hundreds of others a favela in Rio, where I learned Then I went to the rural village choose to do internships, fieldwork, research, or community capoeira, played samba music, Ruchit Nagar Simone Policano of Zaoyang, where I spent service over the summer months. The number of Yale and spoke with the residents Class year two weeks teaching English to 2015 networking events for current students and alumni held in about their life. My experience Class year Major 2016 students in Grade 9 and worked Molecular, Cellular, cities around the world is astonishing—and even if you don’t helped me connect with my Major American Studies with families through a local & Developmental Biology connect with Yalies at planned gatherings, it’s likely that you’ll Brazilian aunts on a deeper Hometown health program and Building Hometown bump into another Bulldog on the Great Wall of China, in level, and it gave me tools to New York, NY Houston, TX Bridges, a Yale student group. London’s theater district, or touring a pyramid in Cairo. serve the Brazilian communities I spent a semester in A few classmates and I won at home in New Jersey as I Barcelona, taking classes Yale’s Thorne Prize for Social Check out these student profiles to see where some recent work toward my goal of being at two universities on Innovation in Health for Khushi Yalies have been and what they’ve been doing. a physician. Catalonian art, literary classics Baby, which started as a class (Hamlet, Don Quixote, and project to address the global Metamorphosis, among others), immunization gap. The prize the history of women in the took us to India, where we met “I am constantly intrigued by what Yale Middle Ages, and war and key stakeholders, formed a society in modern Europe, all partnership with a leading NGO, students will do and who they will become entirely in Spanish. I had never Lauren Gardanier and did important scoping during their four years here. At Yale we seek been to Europe before, so in Class year work to improve our prototype. to learn new perspectives, examine new 2015 addition to jumping headfirst Major After a successful Kickstarter faiths, and acquire new skills; but only by Biomedical Engineering into a new educational Hometown campaign, we are back in India experiencing other parts of the world can we Young-Eun Hyun experience, I traveled almost Saratoga, CA testing the system. Through the Class year every weekend, to eleven Engineers Without Borders project I have been able to act begin to understand our own role in society.” 2015 Jonathan Holloway Major di≠erent cities. I know it’s (EWB) has been a huge part of as a bridge between developers, Dean of Yale College and Biomedical Engineering Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, Hometown important to study other my experience at Yale. I traveled to innovators, designers, lawyers, Macon, GA History, and American Studies cultures to help put my own in the small village of Rohvitangitaa, investors, implementers, Last spring I found a Yale-sponsored perspective, and living abroad Cameroon, in 2013 with a team academics, and evaluators. medical research opportunity in was an incredible experience. from Yale’s EWB Chapter to work The journey has been amazing.

14 15 Eric Friedman ’00 Diverse Futures. Co-founder of Fitbit Sam Tsui ’10

Yale alumni span the globe and change The numbers below will answer Singer, songwriter, and YouTube some of your broad questions sensation the world. A Yale education a≠ords our about what Yalies do when they graduates the critical thinking, problem graduate. How many are accepted Quiara Hudes ’99 The Honorable Amalia Meza to professional degree programs solving, and communication skills ’75 like medical school or law school? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Judge for the Superior Court necessary to thrive in any number of What kinds of jobs are available of Water by the Spoonful and the of San Diego County careers throughout their lifetimes, and to them? How many eventually book for the Tony Award-winning Anne Wojcicki ’96 go on to pursue graduate degrees? musical In the Heights this fundamental skillset also equips Co-founder and CEO of But these numbers don’t begin to Ben Silbermann ’03 genetics company 23andMe students with the flexibility to shift capture the true diversity of what Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest Benjamin “Ben” Carson ’73 Yale alumni do after leaving New ’73 careers in an increasingly changing Alphonse Fletcher University Former Director of Pediatric Haven. So on the facing page we Professor at Harvard University international landscape. Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins provide a brief look at the careers and director of the Hutchins Hospital of just a few Yale College alumni Center for African and African Anna Maria Chávez ’90 who have made significant and American Research varied contributions to society. Chief Executive O∞cer of Girl Scouts of the USA Tracy Campbell ’96 Yale Postgraduation Statistics Akhil Amar ’80, JD ’84 Founder and CEO of Cynosure 88% medical school admit rate for Risk Advisors LLC Yale students and alumni (vs. 43% national American legal scholar, expert on medical school admit rate) constitutional law and criminal The Honorable Carlos Moreno procedure, and Sterling Professor ’70 90% law school admit rate for Yale U.S. Ambassador to Belize of Law at Yale Law School students and alumni (vs. 68% national law Maya Lin ’81, M.Arch ’86 and former Associate Justice of Brian Goldman ’05 school admit rate) the California Supreme Court Designer of the Vietnam Top five medical schools that Yalies attend: Former law clerk for Supreme Veterans Memorial Yale, Columbia, Harvard, University of Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Francisco G. Cigarroa ’79 Pennsylvania, Mount Sinai Allison Williams ’10

Top five law schools that Yalies attend: Director of Pediatric Actress and singer Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Stanford, NYU Transplantation at the Top five graduate schools that Yalies attend: University of Texas Health “Diverse at Yale means you will definitely Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Stanford Science Center and former

go out di≠erent than you come in—and in More than 100 employers conduct over Chancellor of the University of Texas system Anderson Cooper ’89 good ways. You will have had your mind 2,600 interviews per year at Yale’s Office of Career Strategy Kirsten Lodal ’01 changed several times over and engaged Journalist, author, and primary with new ideas and novel ways of thinking Frequent employers for Yale students after Co-founder and CEO of anchor of the CNN news show graduation: Bain & Company, National LIFT, a national organization Anderson Cooper 360° that will be with you in some form forever. Institutes of Health, Google, Goldman Sachs, Philip “Sam” Deloria ’64 committed to fighting poverty Amira Valliani ’10 That is the best education anyone can ask.” McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Teach For Elizabeth Bradley America, Green Corps, FBI and CIA, PepsiCo, Tom Saenz ’87, JD ’91 Brady-Johnson Professor Director of the American Founder of Zomida and former Council on Foreign Relations of Grand Strategy, Professor of Public Health, and Indian Graduate Center and Mexican American Legal Senior Adviser to the Deputy Master of Branford College 74% of the Class of 2014 entered the work- founder and first Secretary- Defense and Education Fund National Security Adviser for force, 17% went to graduate or professional General of the World Council (MALDEF) President and Strategic Communications at school, and 4% pursued independent research of Indigenous Peoples General Counsel the White House

16 17 Changing your mind is essential to a liberal education. It’s surprisingly hard for most of us to let go of one idea in order to embrace another that requires a very di≠erent perspective. However, in a place as diverse as Yale, it is virtually impossible not to change your mind about the world and your role in it. This is why Yale is such a thrilling place to get an education.

So, were you right or wrong about what you “Diversity is illustrated imagined we’d say about diversity? And did by di≠ering perspectives, anything change in your own perspective as you conflicting opinions, distinct paged through the reflections and information here? We invite you to record these thoughts backgrounds, and unique below and revisit your working definition of ways of looking at the world, “diversity” going forward. There’s much more all of which are critical to to explore, of course, and we hope you’ll consider the Yale experience. The furthering your explorations here at Yale. remarkable diversity of this

student population, combined Diversity is... with undergraduates’ intense curiosity and drive, makes Yale an incredibly exciting place to learn.” Stephen Pitti Professor of History and American Studies and Master of Ezra Stiles College

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