Yale continues to implement community recommendations
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As Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis and the Offices of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid prepare for the beginning of the 2026–2027 application cycle, they continue to implement recommendations from the Presidential Council on Yale College Admissions and the Committee on Trust in Higher Education.
Last month, Yale College added a chart to its website on affordability to give applicants and families clearer expectations about what admitted students would be expected to pay. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quinlan said, “These data reflect the exciting expansion of Need-based Financial Aid policies Yale announced earlier this year. The new chart provides the quickest and clearest estimates for prospective students, using real cost figures from enrolling students.”
These changes address the trust committee’s findings on affordability. The committee wrote, “We recommend that Yale do everything possible to make the Financial Aid system more comprehensible, predictable, and fair.”
The new Financial Aid policy eliminates all expected costs for families with typical assets and annual incomes below $100,000 while also ensuring that families with typical assets and annual incomes below $200,000 receive Need-based Scholarships that meet or exceed the cost of Tuition.
On admissions, the committee on trust wrote, “We recommend that the university embrace a standard of candor: It should only use criteria for admission that it is willing to describe publicly and defend openly. The top priority in admissions decisions should be academic achievement.”
In May, Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced that beginning with the next admissions cycle, first-year and transfer applicants will be required to submit ACT or SAT scores.
Previously, the office’s Test-Flexible policy permitted applicants to fulfill the testing requirement with scores from four options: ACT, Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), or SAT.
Yale further clarified on Yale College’s admissions website that academic strength has long been the main criterion in the College’s Holistic Review of applicants and that the overwhelming majority of admitted students score in the 95th percentile or higher on the SAT or ACT.
“Standardized Test scores can help predict academic performance at Yale and, when considered as part of Holistic Review, can help identify well-prepared applicants, including students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds,” said Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis.
The undergraduate admissions office noted that, even during the admissions cycles with a Test-Flexible policy, over 80% of applicants included ACT or SAT scores, and roughly nine in ten enrolling students included them.
As part of its work every spring, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will keep streamlining its Yale-specific essay topics to place greater focus on the core elements of the application, such as academic interests and goals and hopes for growth and development in college.
Lewis continues to implement the recommendations of the Presidential Council on Yale College Admissions and the Committee on Trust in Higher Education.
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Source: Yale News
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