<p>As you can probably tell from the thread title, I'm more humanities-inclined than math-y/science-y. I suppose this will work in my favour on the essay and writing components (I'm a writer through and through ;) lol) but overall, will this hurt or help my app? Since I've heard there's a glut of humanities students at Yale as it is. I'm making my writing/passion for journalism my main hook so I plan to really drive this home and mention my interest in the Journalism Intiative and the new(-ish, founded in 2005) Writing Center etc...</p>
<p>Any help from current/past students or anyone with a clue would help tons! lol.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>EDIT: Am also an int'l from Australia if that makes a difference but originally a URM from Africa.</p>
<p>I really think the difference between majors is way overstated. Adcoms don’t go into the process looking only to accept a certain number of humanities majors, certain number of scientists, etc. Sure, being a female engineer applying to Yale probably gives a tiny bump, but anyone who gets in will get in because they are impressive, not because of what they think their major will be at the time they applied.</p>
<p>Being an int’l from Australia and a URM from AFrica are FAR more significant imo than the humanities focus.</p>
<p>There’s one difference between presenting yourself as a writer vs. presenting yourself as anything else. If you present yourself as a writer, you are automatically submitting several “performance samples” as part of your application, and the admissions staff all feel competent to judge them rather than shipping them out to some other expert for advice. So . . . your essays had better be darn good.</p>
<p>LOL - don’t worry, it’ll prolly be the only strength in my app I’m planning to submit a creative writing excerpt as an additional supplement, though.</p>
I’m planning to submit a creative writing excerpt as an additional supplement, though.</p>