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incoming freshmen:
freshman.affairs@yale.edu

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

Distributional Requirements by Year

Students benefit most from fulfilling the distributional requirements early in their college careers and then building on their new knowledge and capabilities. For this reason, Yale College requires partial fulfillment of the distributional requirements during the freshman, sophomore, and junior years. This chart illustrates the "milestone" requirements detailed in the following Web pages.