<p>Hello I am doing the supplement for yale right now and the section for family info has boxes for family attending yale. My mom did her residency and fellowship at yale and I have her certificates in hand and both say "Yale School of Medicine certifies that..."
So for those boxes do I just put Yale School of Medicine and degree received as certificate. I'm assuming my mom is still in their computer somewhere. THank you for the help</p>
<p>I am a little uncertain whether this counts. I believe that Yale also asks for the graduating class and type of degree on the supplement – and the point of contention for me is whether your mom actually got any formal degree worth mentioning (like a medical degree would definitely have counted).</p>
<p>I don’t know all that much about a medical “fellowship” (I believe it certifies you in a subspecialty) so I don’t feel super qualified to answer this question. However, my gut as a current student is that you could list your mother’s name, the year in which it was given, and write e.g. “Yale Med, Fellowship, Cardiology.”</p>
<p>Why? I that that there is a 0% chance that they would hold anything against you for listing the certificate even if that’s not really what they were looking for. And there’s maybe a 0.01% chance it’ll help you.</p>
<p>The bottom line though is that this will not make any difference in whether or not you are accepted. Even if you were the son or daughter of double alums from Yale College, legacy status is rarely used for college admissions, and admissions officers say that it is used as a “tiebreaker” if anything. Therefore I think you’d also be just fine leaving it off as well.</p>
<p>I’d put it on there, but you should make it clear that it was a residency/fellowship. Don’t let it appear that you are trying to suggest that she is a graduate of Yale’s medical school. It probably doesn’t really help as legacy status per se, but it can’t hurt, and shows some connection to Yale.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help guys. Do you think it’d be a good idea to clarify in the box below the drop down menus (which is for other relatives besides siblings and parents) that it was a residency and a fellowship, not medical school. Or would they be mad at me for not “following directions”</p>
<p>I don’t know where you put it, but you should put it somewhere. Maybe you should put an asterisk by her name, or just put a parenthetical after her name along the lines booyaksha suggests.</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters because they won’t give it any weight.</p>
<p>Clarify in the original area… don’t put it in the box below. In the degree area, just write something like “Yale Med: Fellowship, Residency.” It is not worth putting it below… you are giving it way more attention that it is worth.</p>
<p>If you can’t fit it, don’t worry about it and move on. Improving your essays will help you 100 times more than that box ever will.</p>
<p>Be forewarned, however, that you absolutely do not want to mislead the adcoms. If you do, e.g. by not clarifying that it wasn’t the actual med school, it jeopardizes your entire application.</p>