So you’re interested in Yale’s School of Management (SOM), but Connecticut is not in your immediate travel plans. No problem. Yale students are hitting the road over winter break to share their experiences with prospective applicants around the globe.
Through a series of “winter socials,” current Yale SOM students are traveling the globe and meeting with prospective applicants to share information about the school and its programs and answer questions about the application process. Included among the stops so far have been Austin, Cleveland, Geneva, Mumbai and Ho Chi Minh City. Still ahead in the first weeks of January are Bangkok, Istanbul, Los Angeles and Seattle. In total, 23 events were planned.
According to Bruce Delmonico, Yale SOM director of admissions, the socials give prospective applicants who might not otherwise be able to travel to campus a chance to interact with current students. “I think it’s a testament to the school that students are so willing to take time out on their breaks to organize these events,” he said in a release. “It speaks volumes about the level of support and enthusiasm that exists here for the school.”
Some of the socials were hosted by students traveling on their own over the winter break, but many were planned in accordance with the Yale International Experience, a mandatory component of the Yale Management Integrated Curriculum, in which all MBAs travel to one of 11 destinations on four continents for a unique immersion experience integral to the Yale management curriculum.
Over the course of the trips, students engage in intensive study, meet with local business, government and NGO leaders, and complete individual and group projects. In preparation, they devote a segment of the fall semester researching industries in the regions where they will travel, giving presentations to fellow classmates and hearing from experts on the region. A culminating State and Society course in the spring semester when they return to Yale will focus on cases specific to the regions they have traveled to, helping to further integrate the international experience with the Yale curriculum.
So whether you live in Singapore and want to catch Yale students while they are in your city, or you live in Spokane and want to hear from students who have traveled to South Africa as part of their studies, don’t miss these winter socials.
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