The Yale Young Global Scholars Program is designed to challenge top performing high school students with fast-paced, university-level material. Prior to arriving at Yale, students are required to do several hundred pages of preparatory reading and during the program will spend the majority of each day in lectures, seminars, and small-group discussions. Participants also complete a major writing and presentation assignment in which they are asked to collaborate with a team of students. The academic work in the program is intense and each session covers a wide variety of material in two weeks.
A student in the program must have:
- excellent academic record,
- demonstrated leadership potential,
- strong written and verbal communication skills,
- desire and ability to work cooperatively with peers,
- good work ethic,
- ability to read, analyze, and reflect on large quantities of difficult material in English,
- high standard of personal and professional conduct.
Students must also be mature and able to engage respectfully and civilly in discussions over controversial intellectual, moral, and political issues. Students who participate in the program often go on to attend very selective colleges and universities, including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, UC Berkeley, and University of Chicago.
DEADLINE: February 11, 2016
Apply here: Yale Young Global Scholars