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"got me wishing I'm a Yalie" - Why Yale?=Short answer [29]
These are my answers to the questions on the Yale supplement.
Question: What would you do with a free afternoon tomorrow?
Answer: My family responsibilities has made it impossible for me to participate in community service and hang out with friends,a free afternoon tomorrow would be a
great time to do that and maybe go to the cinema with a friend.
Question: Recall a compliment you received that you especially value. What was it? From whom did it come?
Answer: You are more beautiful in person than in pictures of you. I received the compliment from my sister's friend.
Question: If you could witness one moment in history, what would it be and why?
Answer: I would love to witness the beginning of the fight for women's suffrage, because i'm a person who believes that women and men should be given equal rights.
Question: What do you wish you were better at being or doing?
Answer: I wish i'm better at being less candor.
Question: If you were choosing students to form a Yale class, what question would you ask here that we have not?
Answer: What are your first 5 favorite recordings?
Question: What in particular about Yale has influenced your decision to apply? Please limit your response to the space provided.
Answer: "I came to Yale for the students...I try to teach each student as somebody who is going to do something very meaningful and influential in life".
This reflects all I want in a college were I'm going to be spending 4 years, in order to pursue my career in Psychology.
Hence, if a Yale professor of Psychology uttered such quote, as coming to Yale for the students, then I want to come to Yale not only because of
its outstanding residential college system but because I want to be one of those students Professor Marvin Chun came to Yale for.
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Why Yale? "I came to Yale for the students...I try to teach each student as somebody who is going to do something very meaningful and influential in life".
This reflects all I want in a college were I'm going to be spending 4 years, in order to pursue my career in Psychology.
Hence, if a Yale professor of Psychology uttered such quote, as coming to Yale for the students, then I want to come to Yale because Yale has it all,
outstanding residential college system, world class education under such authorities and professors like Marvin Chun among others, who portray undeniable
passion of Lecturing his students.
PERSONAL STATEMENT.
you have already told us about yourself in the Common Application, with its list of activities, Short Answer, and Personal Essay. In this required second essay, tell us something that you would like us to know about you that we might not get from the rest of your application - or something that you would like a chance to say more about. Please limit your essay to fewer than 500 words.
Answer:
Looking out from the window of my dad's car, all I can see are the unhappy faces of children deprived of their rights to a good home and education, pushed by their parents to beg for alms. Coming from a family of means, I do not know what it is like to live in destitution, being forced to beg for a living. But strangely, I felt a connection to them.
Throughout my childhood, my father was always the one responsible for making decisions relevant to my upbringing and I have always considered that to be standard parenting, not until recently when I made a career decision and he entirely turned it down. I could not imagine defying my father's orders, possibly jeopardizing my freedom and future. But after a while, I grew discontented with having every decision made for me. I felt the urge to act for myself, just as my mother had when she decided to plant her roots in a foreign country. Having heard of various stories, where kids are not given the freedom to make their own career choice, I never thought that I would be faced with the same dilemma; a dilemma in which I would have to choose between defying my father's wishes or jeopardizing my freedom and future.
Thinking back on the children I saw from my father's car, I understood what the connection I shared with them was. It was deprivation. This realization motivated my decision of pursuing my career choices of being a Psychologist, because I know that acquiescing with the career decision he made for me ultimately meant forfeiting happiness .Even if this ends up being abortive, that feeling that I stood up for what I thought right would always be a satisfaction. And with this mentality, I can now confidently make the decisions for myself that will best help me find happiness in whatever I do in life.
