How to Get into Yale
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About this livestream
One of the oldest and most highly ranked schools in the nation, Yale is known for its top-tier academics and slim acceptance rate.
Join Elias as he discusses Yale's admissions process, helping you develop strategies to maximize your chance at an acceptance at this prestigious school. Elias will cover a variety of topics including how to build a list of academic and extracurricular accomplishments that will look particularly impressive to Yale's admissions officers and how to craft successful college essays for Yale. He will also go over a sample essay.
We'll have a Q&A at the end of the session, so bring all of your questions about Yale!
Undergrad College: Harvard University '17
Major: Music
Graduate College: University of Michigan, M.M.
Work Experience: Now in my fourth year at CollegeVine, I have helped dozens of students gain acceptance to their top-choice schools and have also advised and mentored thousands more through my livestreams. Apart from my work at CV, I am also a professional conductor and a multi-instrumentalist. I currently serve as the music director of the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, and I have led symphonic concerts and operatic productions throughout the United States.
My Admissions Story: Initially interested in pursuing a career as a performing cellist, I applied almost exclusively to music schools with dual and double degree options and ultimately enrolled in the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Dual Degree Program. Unhappy with the combined program and worried I'd never feel like I was fully a student at either school, I logged back into CommonApp.org in October of my freshman year. I can't say I went about the transfer process in the smartest way (I only applied to two schools!), but Harvard miraculously accepted me (or 'excepted me' as I wrote in a celebratory Facebook post that day - no one ever let me live that one down), and the rest was history.
