Short Answer Questions question

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Can we DEFINITELY answer in incomplete sentences in some parts of the Short Responses?</p>

<p>-I'm sure this has been answered on some Yale thread, or in the Common App forum, but I posted it here for a clear, definite answer.</p>

<p>I know Stanford explicitly says in theirs, "do not feel compelled to answer using complete sentences."</p>

<p>-Can I assume the same about Yale?</p>

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<p>Sure? I mean I suppose. But what could you say that would form an incomplete thought?</p>

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<p>S, now an admitted student, did not use complete sentences for all of his short answers. One he answered in two words.</p>

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<p>Well, for example, when they ask what you would do with a free afternoon.</p>

<p>-Rather than say, “I would…” it’s easier to just write the action/activity first thing.</p>

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<p>wait, i downloaded the supplement from the common app site and it was only 2 pages- with no short answer questions… did i get the wrong one?</p>

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<p>The supplement allows 175 characters of room to answer each of these five questions:</p>

<p>1) What would you do with a free afternoon tomorrow?
2) Recall a compliment you received that you especially value. What was it? From whom did it come?
3) If you could witness one moment in history, what would it be and why?
4) What do you wish you were better at being or doing?
5) If you were choosing students to form a Yale class, what question would you ask here that we have not?</p>

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<p>Here are the answers I would suggest:

  1. Get ahead for the day after tomorrow.
  2. “You are the finest student I have ever taught in my 50-year-career teaching the finest honor students in this, the finest and most selective school in the land.” From my multivariable calculus teacher in third grade.
  3. The trial of Socrates, so I could make a few points and straighten things out.
  4. Finding the Higgs Boson–it’s taking me longer than I had hoped.
  5. Are you as worthy as I am?</p>
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<p>I did the same thing, and wondered because I knew there were short takes. You only see them when you log on the CA and pull up the Y supplement electronically.</p>

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<p>^thank you!
^^lols</p>