Yassmin Sadeghi
Yassmin Sadeghi
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Yale to give both old and new SAT equal weight
As future members of the Class of 2010 begin filling out college applications, they might be pleased to know that Yale will give equal weight to the older SAT and the newly revamped SAT, which was administered nationwide for the first time nearly seven...
Hundreds seek ambassador jobs
About 300 undergraduates applied this week to recruit applicants to Yale as part of the newly created Student Ambassadors Program, organizers said Tuesday. About 21 percent of the applicants are from California and New York -- mainly New York City and...
Groups seek aid reform
UOC calls for halving summer contributions, academic year self-help
The two groups that led the fight for financial aid reform last year are moving forward with plans for further changes, with the Undergraduate Organizing Committee preparing to announce its plan and the Yale College Council readying a survey to solicit...
New aid reaches students
Hundreds of students qualify for new aid policy, which gets rid of parent contribution
About 800 students, making up 15 percent of undergraduates, have qualified for Yale's new financial aid policy, an initiative on which the University has spent about $3 million. Roughly the same number of students in each class benefited from the...
Admissions office sees wave of change
It was a summer of turn-over in the Admissions and Financial Aid offices as former Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Richard Shaw announced his leave only days after Director of Financial Aid Myra Smith said she was taking a job on a more national...
Recruiting efforts grow
Program targets lower-income students
When Jacob Sayler '09 applied to colleges last year, he knew Yale was one of his top choices. The University was familiar turf for Sayler because the Bismarck, N.D. native had watched his older brother head to Yale just two years earlier. But none of...
WTC suit will proceed
A lawsuit filed by Thomas Shine ARC '00 alleging that the plans for a structure to replace the World Trade Center towers were a copy of his student works will proceed, even though the current design for the structure has been revamped. In an Aug.
Brenzel is named admissions dean
Jeffrey Brenzel '75, a longtime University and corporate administrator but a newcomer to the field of college admissions, was appointed yesterday as Yale's new dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid. Brenzel, the current executive director...
Shaw awaits new challenges at Stanford
After 13 years as Yale's dean of admissions and financial aid, Richard Shaw has left to serve at the helm of Stanford University's admissions office starting this Thursday. Yale President Richard Levin has appointed a seven-member committee comprised...
Campus welcomes the Class of 2009
When Anna Parks '09 packed her bags before coming to New Haven, she didn't expect the help she received when she arrived on campus. "There was a swarm of people to help us," Parks said. "It's a little bit awkward having people I don't know grabbing...