Freshmen flock to new seminars
More than half the members of the Class of 2010 applied this summer for the burgeoning freshman seminar program, which is larger than ever as it enters its third year.
This year, of the 688 freshmen who applied to the program, which admits students randomly, 527 were placed in 33 seminars ranging from “Exploring the Nature of Genius” to “The Court of Louis XIV.” In the program’s first year, 420 freshmen from the Class of 2008 applied. Students praised the program for introducing freshmen to small classes taught by top professors early in their Yale careers, although some sophomores...
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