Yale Essay Prompts 2021

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Please use the short essays below to reflect on topics and personal experiences that will help the Admissions Committee learn more about you.

1. Yale’s extensive course offerings and vibrant conversations beyond the classroom encourage students to follow their developing intellectual interests wherever they lead. Tell us about your engagement with a topic or idea that excites you. Why are you drawn to it? (250 words or fewer)

2. Why do these areas appeal to you? (up to approximately 125 words).

3. What is it about Yale that has led you to apply? (125 words or fewer)

Optional

Please respond to one of the following prompts in 250 words or fewer. Please indicate the letter of the prompt.

A. Reflect on your membership in a community. Why is your involvement important to you? How has it shaped you? You may define community however you like.

B. Yale students, faculty, and alumni engage issues of local, national, and international significance. Discuss an issue that is important to you and how your college experience could help you address it.

C. Tell us about your relationship with a role model or mentor who has been influential in your life. How has their guidance been instrumental to your growth?

Writing supplement
Yale University does not have a standard writing supplement. A writing supplement may be triggered by answers you provide in your application.