YALE YOUNG AFRICAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM

BUILDING YOUNG LEADERS 

Culled from globalscholars.yale.edu

Application deadline - 9 May 2014 

Yale Young African Scholars Program is a new initiative that is modelled off of the Yale Young Global Scholars Program. These sessions, in Ghana and Ethiopia, are the first sessions to take place outside of Yale’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut. These sessions are intended solely for African students attending secondary school on the African continent. 

The 2014 inaugural Yale Young African Scholars programs will be hosted by Yale University in two locations:

Ghana from 11 - 15 August 2014

Ethiopia from 18 - 22 August 2014

  Download the application here

The Yale Young African Scholars Program (YYAS) is a high-intensity five-day program designed for African students who will graduate from secondary school in 2015 or 2016 and have the talent, drive, energy, and ideas to make meaningful impacts as young leaders, even before they begin their university studies. The Yale Young African Scholars Program is an official program of Yale University. 

There is no cost to students to participate in the Yale Young African Scholars Program.

 Participants are, however, responsible for

getting themselves to the venue at the outset of the program and their return home at the end of the program. Participants will also be responsible for any incidental expenses they elect to incur. 

The programs will help students recognize and understand global issues, strategize responses, and innovate solutions while learning from Yale faculty and African undergraduate and graduate students who currently attend Yale. Students will participate in a lecture series and a number of elective seminars on a variety of topics. The demanding academic content is designed to improve students’ analytical thinking, intellectual flexibility, and written and oral communication skills. These skills will be further utilized in small workshops designed to prepare students for the demanding application processes of U.S. colleges and universities.

Accommodation will be provided for all students, along with class instruction, three meals a day, and in the case of the Ethiopia session, transportation from Addis to Debre Zeit. There is no cost for students to participate in the program.

Student Profile

The Yale Young African Scholars Program is designed to challenge top performing secondary school students (entering their second to last year) with fast-paced, university-level material. Students will spend the majority of each day in lectures, seminars, and small-group discussions. The academic work in the program is intense and covers a wide variety of material.

A student in the program must:

·       plan to graduate secondary school in 2015 or 2016

·       have excellent academic record

·       have demonstrated leadership potential

·       have strong written and verbal communication skills

·       have desire and ability to work cooperatively with peers

·       have good work ethic

·       have ability to read, analyze, and reflect on large quantities of difficult material in English

·       have high standard of personal and professional conduct

·       be interested in attending university in the United States

Students must also be mature and able to engage respectfully and civilly in discussions over controversial intellectual, moral, and political issues.

HOW TO APPLY

The Yale Young African Scholars Program is a selective program for high achieving African students entering their penultimate (second to last) year of secondary school. Successful applicants will demonstrate high academic achievement leadership potential, and strong interests in the program content, in addition to pursuing an undergraduate degree in the United States. Applicants should also be able and willing to work openly and effectively with peers. All applications will be reviewed holistically, and there are no minimum grade or standardized exam score requirements. However, a high level of English proficiency will be expected.

Required application components include an application form (completed by the applicant), a student evaluation form (completed by a teacher), and the applicant’s official transcript or report card from school (submitted by a teacher). 

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