Elis break minority trends abroad
Experts cite cost as deterent; Gentry calls Yale’s resources a reason for rate of minorities abroad
Angel Ayala ’10 has spent the past two summers in Beijing and plans to study in Paris next summer, possibly even taking next year off to travel and study French.
Unusual though it may be for a Yalie to have so many study -broad experiences, it is even more unusual for a student like Ayala, who is of Hispanic origin.
If Congress has its way, 1 million American undergraduates will study abroad annually by the year 2017. If current trends persist, however, less than 20 percent of those students will be minorities.
At Yale, 263 out of 650 Elis studying abroad in...
"At Yale, 263 out of 650 Elis studying abroad in 2007-'08, or about 40 percent, were minorities." This is an interesting number. Exactly 263 minority students went abroad. YDN should ask Yale administrators how they came up with this figure. The applications for study abroad (and most fellowships) don't ask about ethnicity. (See the links below for the applications.) So, does IEFP check some box as the applicant drops off the application (you know, they just look and "know" that the person is a minority)? Do they dig up the person’s application to Yale? If they did that stuff, it's really troubling. If they made it up, that's pretty bad too. Before accepting their conclusions that they are doing so well in this area, you might want to ask them a few more questions.
http://www.yale.edu/iefp/studyabroad/Year_Term_Abroad_Application.pdf
http://www.yale.edu/iefp/studyabroad/Year_Term_Abroad_New_Program_Petition.pdf