I'm a student at Yale University. Here's what a weekend is like on campus.

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The author and a building on the Yale campus.

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I'm a freshman at Yale and just went to my first Harvard-Yale football game. The weekend was one of my favorites at college so far.

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The author and his friends at the Yale-Harvard football game.

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I worry I got into Yale only because I'm Black. I now do everything I can to prove I belong.

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The author.

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Yale is citing freedom of speech amid student anger after a professor called Israel a 'murderous genocidal settler state'

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A Yale professor is facing calls for her ouster after calling Israel a "murderous genocidal settler state."

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Tensions are boiling over as America's elite colleges respond to Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel

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A Jewish counter protestor shouts at students from Brooklyn College during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the entrance of the campus.

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A college counselor said a parent offered him $1.5 million to deny service to their child's classmates — highlighting the cut-throat battle for Ivy League admissions

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Harvard University, which ranks No. 3 in US News' latest rankings, accepted less than 4% of applicants for class of 2027.

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I took a semester off during my junior year at Yale. It's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

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The author in Morocco during her gap semester.

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University of Chicago agrees to pay $13.5 million to students after being accused of participating in a 'price-fixing cartel' with other prestigious schools to limit financial aid

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The University of Chicago

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9 state universities that could help you earn just as much money as an Ivy League education

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The crowd at Boston College commencement.

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Russia and China's trade relationship has become increasingly lopsided

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Moscow has become increasingly reliant on China as the war in Ukraine drags on.
Moscow has become increasingly reliant on China as the war in Ukraine drags on.

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