The document discusses the application process for colleges and universities. It involves submitting personal information, high school transcripts, SAT/ACT scores, and recommendations. The types of institutions discussed are undergraduate colleges, graduate schools, and technical training schools. The rest of the document provides details about Yale University, including its history, academic components, student body size, endowment, notable alumni, application requirements, academic structure, policies, and support services.

2. application including personal information
high school report including class rank
a transcript
SAT and ACT scores
general assessment of the applicant's character
recommendations by school teachers
personal commentary such as major extra-
curricular activities
personal interview

3. categories of institutions

4. the university
colleges for
graduate
undergraduate
schools
students
bachelor's master's or a
degree doctoral
B.A., B.S. degree

5. courses
ranging
from 6
months to
4years
the
technical
training
institutions
a wide
variety of
technical
skills

6. enter many
professions transfer to 4-
year colleges

7. these institutions might be:
private
public

8. Prestige
competence and
number of quality of the
applicants for teaching faculty
admission
amount of
funding quality of
available for research
libraries, special facilities
programs

9. Faculty
Professors
Associate
Counselors
professors
Assistant
Tenures
professors

10. Directors
Vice-
Deans
presidents
The
President of ADMINISTRATION
Business
the managers
University

11. Prestige
quality of the
competence and
teaching faculty
number of
applicants for
admission
amount of
funding quality of
available for research
libraries, special facilities
programs

22. in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
founded in 1701
is the third-oldest institution
of higher education in the United
States
is ranked among the top universities
in the world

23. three major academic components
Yale College (the
undergraduate program)
the Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences
the professional schools

24. Yale College
More than 2,000 undergraduate
courses in the liberal arts and
sciences
offered by

25. People
over 1,100
faculty
6,100 graduate
5,300
and
undergraduate
professional
students
students

26. US$16.7 billion endowment
• (the second-largest of any academic
institution)
the second-largest academic
library in the world
• (with some 12.5 million volumes
held in more than two dozen
libraries)

27. Notable Alumni
five U.S. Presidents
(William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford,
George H.W. Bush,
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush),
19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices
several foreign heads of state
and many others…

28. Examinations
• in mathematics and verbal ability
• used since 1947
SAT • is taken in the-11th grade of high
school
• can be taken two or three times
• scores social studies and the
natural studies
ACT • is taken when required by
certain colleges
• is meant to be taken only once

29. Degrees

30. Bachelor
of Law
(LL.A.)
Additional
three
years of
study
Bachelor
of
Divinity
(B.D.)

31. the Bachelor’s degree
(4 years) B.A., B.S.
the Master's degree
1-2 years of advanced study in
graduate-level courses
the Doctor's degree
a minimum of 2 years of
course, success in a qualifying
examination, proficiency in 1-2
foreign languages or in a research
tool and completion of a doctoral
dissertation

32. Academic year
early
December January
November
October
late January
September February
March
April
May

33. Academic dishonesty
plagiarism
cheating
fabrication
aiding dishonesty
falsification

34. A professor may be:
friend
counselor teacher

35. Credits
5 three-hour-a week courses every semester
One credit usual-ly equals one hour of class per week
a bachelor's degree requirement is about 40 three-hour
courses or 120 credits
are transferable among universities

36. Need help?
development and
financial aid
job placement
• provides • part grant
up-to-date • part loan
information on • part work
career areas
and individual
career
counseling

37. fraternities sororities