My daughters attended Harvard, Yale, and Stanford; they then became the CEOs of YouTube and 23andMe. Letting them fail helped them grow into leaders.

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Anne Wojcicki and Susan Wojcicki

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Trump is getting rid of a key student-loan program. Yale has a replacement.

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Yale University is putting forth an alternative to the Grad PLUS student-loan program.

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I broke a big rule of college applications by writing about my mother. My love for her got me into Yale and Stanford.

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The author wrote about his mother in his college essays.

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I raised $3 million for my AI startup as a full-time Yale student. Here's how I manage my time so I can do both.

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Nathaneo Johnson is a senior at Yale.

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A college essay about McDonald's got this applicant into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Here's what he wrote.

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Jeffrey Wang used the same essay to get into Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

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I'm a Yale graduate but can't afford to live on my own, so I share an apartment with my mom. I have no plans to move out.

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The author, left, loves living with her mom, right.

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I just finished my freshman year at Yale. I'm worried I didn't make deep, long-lasting friendships.

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The author, middle, worries he didn't make enough friends in college.

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2 Yale researchers are pulling back the curtain on Russia's sanctions-stricken economy — and it's landed them on a list of Putin's enemies

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on February 15, 2022.
Jeffery Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian have landed themselves on a list of sanctioned individuals for their work shining a light on Russia's economic situation.

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I was accepted to Yale. Here's everything I included in my successful Ivy League application.

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The author got into Yale with his successful college application.

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I was accepted into my dream colleges: Duke, Columbia, and Yale. I flipped a coin to decide which one was right for me.

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The author, not pictured, couldn't decide which college to go to.

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