Here is the essay I hope to write tomorrow (fingers crossed that it's somehow related to the actual essay topic). I'm keeping it short because I think you don't need to demonstrate proficiency, you just need to demonstrate "not in need of more alphabet work." If memory serves from when Desi took it last year, the Yale exam is much less intense than the one at Columbia, but even so I think I'll be in a better position than I was in last year because (hopefully) this year I studied smarter.
Here's the essay lol IT IS NOT TRUE lol
This summer I was living and working in New York City. I worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice. I am a specialist in political science and the Middle East, and I graduated from the American University in Cairo where I received my master’s and was a graduate fellow. I am now busy with work for the ICTJ and I am also working to obtain my doctor of law. After getting my doctorat I will move back to the Middle East, inshallah. I want to live in the Middle East because of the crowds and weather in New York (where it is very cold in the winter), but I will not live in Cairo. I want to live in Beirut or Amman where I have many friends and colleagues.