Yale to allow more credits abroad
Students will now be allowed to use credits from both a summer and semester abroad toward the 36 credits required to graduate, University faculty decided Thursday.
In a move to encourage international exploration, the proposal — presented by the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — will permit students to apply up to two approved credits earned at institutions other than Yale, which include summer study abroad programs, as well as four credits from a term abroad. The new policy is markedly different from the previous one, which was more...
THANK YOU YALE.
Ironic that with thousands of high school seniors every year who want nothing more than the chance to attend Yale, many Yalies who actually have that chance think that the best they can do of their college education is spending time abroad, usually at a far less selective university. What is truly strange is that the administration seems to think that this is something that should be encouraged.
Finally! For Christ's sake its about time!
Too bad I had to fight tooth and nail last year to get 3 credits transferred from an Arabic language program 10 times better than Yale's horrible beginning Arabic
To Recent Alum:
I could not agree with you more. There is absolutely nothing to be learned from spending a semester abroad that could not be learned from spending five straight months in one square mile in Shitbrick, CT. I think if there's one thing we can all agree upon, it's that Yale kids don't need more experience in the real world -- let along the foreign real world -- because we're the most enlightened, socialized bunch that could possibly exist in the history of the world forever and ever.
Also, Recent Alum, I hate you. Why are you still reading the YDN?
I am writing this from an internet cafe in Paris right now, so I am obviously the authority here. #3 is wrong, and #5 is overreacting. The international experience is incredibly valuable and often misunderstood by those who don't participate in it, but a semester at Yale is undeniably precious. The idea that you learn less at less selective universities, though, is preposterous.
There is only so much time and space into which you can fit an education. It just depends on what you want.
But the expanded opportunities are still just for study abroad? Like, if you don't leave the country, your max is still 2 non-Yale credits?