Help and advice for
incoming freshmen:
freshman.affairs@yale.edu

Yale College
Dean's Office
P.O. Box 208241
New Haven, CT
06520-8241   USA

Freshman Year

Students must have enrolled for at least one course credit in two skills categories (foreign language, quantitative reasoning, writing) by the end of the second term of enrollment in order to be eligible for promotion to sophomore standing. They may elect no more than four course credits in a single department, and no more than six course credits in a single disciplinary area (humanities and arts, sciences, social sciences), except that a student taking a laboratory course may elect as many as seven course credits in the sciences.