In addition to an offer of admission, most of the newly admitted students will also receive a financial aid offer with a Yale Scholarship designed to meet 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. Currently 55% of Yale College students receive a need-based Yale Scholarship, with an average award of nearly $68,000, which is greater than the cost of tuition. In the 2024-25 academic year, Yale awarded more than $250 million in undergraduate financial aid.
Yale College does not expect parents earning less than $75,000 annually — with typical assets — to make any contribution toward the cost of their child’s education. The financial aid offers for these families, which are known as “zero parent share” offers, cover the full cost of all billed expenses — tuition, housing, the meal plan, and hospitalization insurance — as well as travel to and from New Haven.
The admissions office invites all newly admitted students to visit campus in April 2025 for Bulldog Days, a three-day immersive experience of life at Yale, or Bulldog Friday, a one-day program offering tours, panels, academic forums, and student research presentations. Alumni groups in more than a dozen cities will host local receptions to welcome the newest Yalies, and the admissions office will host virtual events and sponsor online communities to help admitted students connect with each other.
“Every spring, the Yale community in New Haven and around the world springs into action to showcase Yale’s greatest asset: its people” said Mark Dunn, the admissions office’s senior associate director for outreach and recruitment. “Admitted students tell us again and again that the connections they make with students, faculty, staff, and alumni are what make Yale stand out.”
Dunn also expressed special gratitude to the student volunteers who will open their residential college suites to visiting admitted students and host special events, the faculty who will participate in the academic fair and lead master classes, and the staff who will help more than 1,500 admitted students get a taste of life at Yale during Bulldog Days and Bulldog Friday.
The admissions office makes a special effort to provide travel funding to students from lower-income families to enable them to visit campus before finalizing their college decision. Last year more than 500 admitted students received grants to travel to campus for Bulldog Days.
Newly admitted students will have until May 1 to reply to their offer of admission.