<p>Hi, im a student from Norway, and I'm doing a project about Yale University. However I'm kindof stuck at the social life. And i figured out that maybe some of you could help me? I hope this is the right forum, if not I'm sorry.</p>
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<li><p>Yale must be on of the best universities right? But to become sucessfull later on you'll need more then just good grades and lot's of knowlegde, right? So do Yale offer you the social life and communities to devolp your EQ and SQ? What can you do at campus? What has New Haven to offer?</p></li>
<li><p>I've heard something about that Yale is similar to Hogworts(right spelling?) How is that? Do you live in "houses" like in Harry Potter? Or in student apartments? Does the different houses compete against each other?</p></li>
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<p>3.Do you have sport teams? Like a Yale soccer club which is competing in a leauge? What sports can you do at Yale?</p>
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<li><p>Workload? Is it: work work work? Or can you fit in some partying?</p></li>
<li><p>Could you just tell like basically what a normal day at the university has to offer? And what you do besides working with school?</p></li>
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<p>Would be nice if someone described in detail how you live, here i Norway all the students live in their own apartments not necessarily with other students</p>
<p>That's all I remember right now, there probably will be more, thanks for your help !:D</p>
<p>You may not be getting responses because you seem to be asking so much but know so little about Yale. Yale is a large and wealthy university with very strong faculty and students, and offers just about everything you might expect a good university would have. A quick way to learn more is the on-line tour: [Yale</a> College Virtual Tour](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/collegetour/frameset/tour.html]Yale”>http://www.yale.edu/collegetour/frameset/tour.html).</p>
<p>By the way, Yale does have “houses,” but they’re called residential colleges.</p>
<p>1) Yale has one of the most famous tea clubs, where everybody drinks tea. This is a great sign of affluence. It is also famous for its cafes, where people eat sandwiches and discuss current events.</p>
<p>2) Unfortunately, houses are out of the question even for Yale. Students must sleep in small huts which they have helped to construct.</p>
<p>3) It has chess, calculus, and lacrosse.</p>
<p>4) Partying is out of the question and is grounds for immediate expulsion.</p>
<p>5) You wake up, go to class, sit around all day, and go to sleep on a straw mattress.</p>
<p>Seriously now, most of these questions can be answered through Google. I’ll humor you though, since I love Yale so much.</p>
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<li><p>Yale is consistently ranked as the third-best university in the world (though I think it’s #1!) but it’s so much more than the academics. You can find a club for almost everything and a community that fits your every interest. Most importantly, I think, the people are wildly diverse but consistently brilliant, and it makes for an unparalleled social experience. </p></li>
<li><p>Yes, Yale is a lot like Hogwarts! We live in “residential colleges,” which are just like houses. There are 12 residential colleges, and we all compete against each other for a big intramural sports award called the Tyng cup. There’s also a lot of pride about which college is the best. (it’s Branford!)</p></li>
<li><p>This is the really silly question. Yep, Yale is a Division I school, you can compete on a really high (varsity) level in almost every sport, from basketball to soccer to crew and squash. There’s also club sports for those who aren’t good enough to make Varsity and intramurals for those who just want to have fun with low levels of competition (they can be pretty intense though!)</p></li>
<li><p>It’s a crazy amount of work, but Yale parties really hard. I would say most people are out at least once a week at a party, and there’s always tons of stuff to do on campus on Friday and Saturday nights. Sundays are usually dead because people are hungover and studying. But that’s not always true! Next week is the study period for finals and Yale hired a big party train to take 600 of us down to NYC for the day!</p></li>
<li><p>Like most other universities, I go to class in the mornings. I usually have 2-3 hour-long classes a day; some are lectures with 50+ people, others are sections with less then 10 (and sometimes as few as 5). You can take a class in pretty much every subject you can dream of. In the afternoons I do homework and study. At night, I’ll usually go to dinner with friends at the dining hall, and then sometimes to a meeting of a club I’m in or a publication I write for. On the weekends, there’s studying in the day and tons of parties at night–recently, there was Safety Dance, where everybody dresses up like the '80s, and Prohibition, a dance where everybody dressed like the '20s. There’s also lots of small parties in dorms and if you’re not a partier there’s plays, concerts, and meetings.</p></li>
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<p>Seriously, though, do they not have Google in Norway?</p>
<p>haha, recently i’ve been researching pretty much and found the answers on some of my questions. It’s just that everything is so different in Norway with the universities, here in “communist” Norway, you only pay like 100 $ or something each year to go to college. but anyways, thank you for your time. And yeah, I read that Branford is the college that is most similar to Gryffindoor, thats kindof cool.</p>
<p>Another thing that you should know about Yale is that while the sticker price is $50,000/year, not many of us pay the full anount. I’m only paying about $5000/year; a friend of mine pays less than $100. It all depends on what your family can afford.</p>
<p>Also, Yale parties decently hard when we do (which is assisted by the complete lack of enforcement of Connecticut liquor laws), but it happens less frequently than less academically rigorous universities. The vast majority of people who drink (I’d say 75-80% of the student body) do so only one or two nights a week.</p>