<p>How come you don't often hear about hopeful science majors applying to yale? The people I have known/ know who applied are all into subjects like history, languages, art/ architecture, political science and english lit. Is it still good for science undergrads in say, chemistry, molecular biology or physics? I suspect yale being yale, any department would be pretty amazing but was just wondering... would appreciate any enlightenment.</p>
<p>If you search this forum for the word “yale science” (with quotation marks), you’ll see that this question has been asked in various forms many times.</p>
<p>The sciences are strong at Yale and the institution’s commitment to even further improvement lays in its recent acquisition of the West Campus with its half billion dollars worth of first class lab space. My only science reservation would be that there are better places for hard core engineer types who don’t think they want to be bothered by a liberal arts education. I was a Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry major with abundant support in the department and did basic research at the medical school and a graduate school seminar while getting my fill of Art History and Economics.</p>