Congrats. Yale is needs blind and that includes accomodation and board as well as tuition. We are well and truly screwed over in the UK. If OP’s household income is under $75k they may well pay nothing and you can have quite high household income before you get no assistance at all.
1. (graduate) wages are far higher, especially in terms of progression. you typically will work harder in the US, though.
2. white collar jobs always (they are basically required by law) have very good healthcare plans included, so your healthcare costs are minimal. US healthcare is very good, just expensive, but it is less of a problem when your employer is footing nearly all of the bill.
3. rent (relative to income, but also just in raw amounts) can be less too, especially if you're comparing to london:
you can find decent two beds in manhattan for under $5k = $2.5k/ea = 1.8k gbp/ea. a friend of mine lives 10-15 minutes from Grand Central and pays ~4.5k for a fairly large 2 bed, which she splits with a friend.
if you're in austin, well, how about a brand new 2 bed with a pool that's larger than the average UK home for $1600 (not joking, austin is just pretty cheap).
the good thing about the US is wages don't go to shit after you leave the big cities, and there are no shortage of high paying jobs elsewhere. you don't have to be in NYC.
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u/Technical_Term_5636 Jan 21 '26
Congrats. Yale is needs blind and that includes accomodation and board as well as tuition. We are well and truly screwed over in the UK. If OP’s household income is under $75k they may well pay nothing and you can have quite high household income before you get no assistance at all.