Note for applicants applying online: Yale will not receive your application electronically from the Common Application organization until you have submitted all three required parts:

the Common Application
the Yale Supplement
the application fee or fee waiver request

The application deadline for Regular Decision applicants is midnight, Friday December 31st. The Admissions Office will be closed for the holiday and will reopen on Monday January 4th. If you are submitting an online application and encounter problems related to the submission process or the online application itself, you should contact the Common Application support staff by clicking on Help at the top of any online Common Application page. You will find helpful information there. If a technical problem prevents you from submitting your Yale application by midnight December 31st, please be reassured that you will still be able to submit it electronically after the deadline, when the problem has been resolved.

How to Apply

The information contained in this section of our website should guide you through the application process.

Application Options

While you may submit either an electronic or paper version of your application to Yale College, we strongly encourage you to apply to Yale online. Whichever way you choose to apply, please note that you should choose only ONE of the two options. That is, if you apply electronically, please do not submit a paper version of your application. If you submit a paper application, please do not submit an electronic version.

Apply to Yale Online

Apply to Yale on Paper

Note: it is very important that you use your full legal name on all admissions documents, including teacher recommendations, school report, standardized testing, etc. Your application will be on file with the full legal name you provide on your Common Application. If we receive documents under any other name, there is a possibility that they may not be filed with your application. Please make sure to use the same name throughout the admissions process.

When to Apply

	Single-Choice Early Action (postmark deadline)	Regular Decision (postmark deadline)

Application	November 1	December 31
Financial Aid forms	November 1	March 1

Last Possible Test Dates	Single-Choice Early Action	Regular Decision

for SAT	November	January
for ACT	October	February
for TOEFL	November	January

*In the 2008-2009 application cycle, 95% of our applicants filed their application online. Yale encourages electronic applications for two reasons: your convenience and our processing speed and accuracy. We know that some college counselors and authors of advice manuals recommend applying on paper in order to enhance formatting and appearance. We believe formatting to be irrelevant to our application evaluation procedure, and again, strongly encourage online submissions from our applicants.