Additionally, 10 percent of students climbed at least two income quintiles post-graduation. And then there’s the power of the ‘Yale name’. The prestige attached to it isn’t just symbolic—it opens ...

As students voted on the 100 most popular classmates in each year, questions of visibility and social capital come to mind.

Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions has completed its review of first-year applications and offered admission to 2,308 of the 50,228 students who applied to be part of Yale College’s Class of ...