The following is an essay that I wrote as apart of my Yale Application. The prompt was to explain what led me to apply to Yale.
In third grade I Googled, “What are the best schools for writing?” and a variety of different colleges popped up on my screen. Yale stuck out to me the most, solely because I didn’t like any of the other schools’ mascots. Never owning a dog myself, I was determined to go to a school that had one, eventually, that simple love of dogs lead me to take a tour of Yale the summer before my sophomore year. It was a rainy Thursday afternoon and after listening to the little stories my tour guide told about the window glass and the statues and the libraries, and after watching the “Why I Toured Yale” video, I knew it was the perfect place for me to be.