Questions Just for Yale Students
Skills Requirements
| Rate your current skills/ability in
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| 1. Quantitative reasoning (
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, e.g., mathematics, statistics, algorithms, formal symbolic logic) or its application. |
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| 2. Foreign language(s) |
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| 3. Writing |
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| Rate the extent to which your skills in these areas have changed during your time at Yale
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Much stronger
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| 4. Quantitative reasoning |
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| 5. Foreign language(s) |
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| 6. Writing |
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| How valuable do you think each of the following will be to Yale graduates in their lives and careers? |
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| 7. Quantitative reasoning skills |
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| 8. Foreign language skills |
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| 9. Writing skills |
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| 10. Studying or working abroad while in college |
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Writing
| 11. Compared to when you first enrolled at Yale, are you more or less likely to show your writing to someone else, before the due date, to get comments and suggestions? |
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YU11 1 Much more likely now |
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YU11 2 Somewhat more likely now |
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YU11 3 About the same |
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YU11 4 Somewhat less likely now |
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YU11 5 Much less likely now |
| 12. Did the WR designation make you more or less likely to take courses? |
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YU12 1 More likely |
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YU12 2 Made me avoid courses I otherwise might have taken |
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YU12 3 Not a factor |
| 13. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: In general, WR courses have helped me to become a better writer. |
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YU13 1 Strongly disagree |
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YU13 2 Disagree |
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YU13 3 Agree |
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YU13 4 Strongly agree |
Academic dishonesty
| 14. Based on your understanding, do you think you have ever engaged in academic dishonesty or plagiarism while in college? (Your responses are completely confidential.) |
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YU14 1 Not sure |
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YU14 2 Never |
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YU14 3 Once or twice |
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YU14 4 Sometimes |
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YU14 5 Frequently |
International Experiences
| 15. Did you have an international experience (i.e., study, research, or internship abroad, excluding vacation travel) during your time at Yale? |
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YU15 1 Yes, I had one international experience while at Yale - skip to question 17 |
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YU15 2 Yes, I had two or more international experiences while at Yale - skip to question 17 |
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YU15 3 No |
| 16. If you did not have an international experience, why not? (Please rank your top 3 reasons. If only one or two reasons are important, do not rank any further.) |
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| I had international experience (not including vacation travel) before college |
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| International experience was not one of my goals during college |
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| My academic requirements made it difficult to leave Yale |
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| My extracurricular commitments made it difficult to leave Yale |
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| I could not arrange adequate funding |
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| Other financial constraints |
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| My teachers and advisors did not encourage me to study or work abroad |
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| I took advantage of excellent domestic opportunities instead |
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| Inadequate language preparation |
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| Opportunities abroad didn't match my interests |
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| I do not like to travel or be so far from family and friends |
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| Personal health reasons |
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| My family preferred that I not go abroad |
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| I was unsure how to arrange an international experience |
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| Settling back in after my return would have been difficult |
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| Other, please specify
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| No further selection |
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Science and QR
17. Please describe one or two of your experiences with science at Yale (positive or negative) and what you have learned about the ways in which science enables us to understand our world.
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18. Please describe one or two of your experiences in QR courses at Yale (positive or negative) and how they influenced your quantitative skills and critical evaluation of quantitative information.
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Senior Projects/Essays
19. Students fulfill the senior requirement in a variety of ways (research project, senior essay, creative project, senior seminar, etc.). How are you fulfilling the senior requirement for your major(s)? Please include the course number(s) if applicable.
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20. How did the idea for your senior project or essay originate and develop?
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21. What other courses or experiences, if any, contributed to your senior project or essay?
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Final thoughts
22. Please use the space below to elaborate on any of the questions on the survey and to comment on any other aspect of your undergraduate experience not covered in this questionnaire.
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