Yale University

From 1993 to 2007 the number of administration positions in colleges and universities increased by three per one hundred students. To shed light on this statistic the number of teaching position only increased by one. In addition over the same time frame colleges and universities have spent twenty two percent more on administrative positions then on teachers. Some schools like Wake Forest and Yale who respectfully spend seventy five thousand and sixty thousand per one hundred student…

focus, and they aren’t all that far apart. I believe that each and every single one of these careers can both challenge me, and push me to cause a change in the world. The five careers include becoming; a neonatologist, a neonatal nurse, a lawyer, a university professor, and a pharmacist. Neonatology is a subdivision of pediatrics, and it consists of the care provided to premature children- with them being premature the illnesses and disorders arise having people usually working in medical…

Sheep”, by William Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at America's elite schools and explains how they are producing intellectual clones instead of creative intelligent human minds. When you think of Harvard and Yale you may associate them as the cherry on top when it comes to top-tier universities. While they may provide students with a great education, these educational institutions have been alienated from their true purpose: making college a place for self-discovery and critical thinking. Not…

At the very end of the article a short biography of the author mentions that he is a first-year resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital (Sinha, 2014, para. 13). This is crucial for the persuasion as it establishes the credibility of the author. The audience now knows, he has completed graduate school, possibly from Yale University. He is knowledgeable about the process of becoming a doctor, as he is in his first year of residency. He establishes that he is a young doctor…

Stanford College Essay If you were to ask an expert about the best colleges in the country, you would likely hear Stanford University amongst the names of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. While not an Ivy league school, Stanford is still a college with a high standard for academics and a school for those determined to succeed. This prestigious school was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford, in honor of their late son, who had died the year before. Over the years Stanford has gone through…

In Mark Edmundson’s “Why Teach” introduction he discusses how colleges have lost the value of education. The title explains how teacher as well as universities have forgotten why the teach and what the meaning of teaching is. Instead universities focus on how to make their will gain at an expensive instead of focusing on their education. Students play the role of consumers and colleges the role of businesses. A college can’t function without have consumers to support them. Are you a consumer at…

Dear Admissions Committee of Columbia University: In December, I applied to the Columbia College undergraduate class of 2020, and on April 1st, I was notified that I was placed on your waitlist. I am incredibly grateful that my application was acknowledged (or at least wasn’t immediately thrown out), and I have been granted another opportunity to be considered for admission to the class of 2020. As a response to the “Why Columbia?” supplemental question on the Common App, I wrote about my…

group of high-school seniors trying to get into the two dozen or so most-selective colleges and universities in the country. Some seniors planning to go to college this fall already have been accepted somewhere, either because they applied early or they chose less-selective schools that get back to applicants almost immediately of their decision. But for those waiting to hear from Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and other elite schools, this time of year is one of high angst. By May we’ll hear yet…

clear list showing the top ten colleges that has the richest alumnus. From the list we can see that Harvard is the first place, with 2964 multi-millionaires and a total wealth added up to $622 billion, and then comes the University of Pennsylvania, the Columbia University, Yale, Connell and Princeton. Six out of eight Ivy League colleges has the top 10 richest alumni in the world. However, how they manage to generate so many millionaires? The answer to this question is mainly two kinds: first,…

I am a recent non-traditional transfer student into the history department at the University of California-Los Angeles. I began my collegiate career at the age of 22 after working in the restaurant industry for 5 years. I began taking history classes while attending Long Beach City College and noticed the lack of representation in the professors who taught the courses. I also noticed the underrepresentation of people of color in the various textbooks in regards to modern Europe. Being a Latino…