Book Award

Annually Yale Clubs and Associations recognize outstanding juniors in secondary schools by presenting books to them or their schools. We hope that you will participate in this program and help us to provide important exposure for Yale College within your community.

The Yale Book Award can be used to recruit the brightest students from your community to Yale. This program is especially effective as it helps us to:

• Keep or place Yale's name in the minds of outstanding high school students
• Create a Yale presence within both the high school and the community
• Offer an opportunity for direct communication between alumni and Yale Book Award recipients
• Add the names of top high school juniors to the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admission's file of potential applicants
• Emphasize Yale's academic excellence

Information

• View/Order this year's books (Yale Press website)
• Order bookplates

This award provides an excellent way to improve Yale's visibility in secondary schools. To help subsidize this program, your Club or Association might consider having individual members sponsor one or more awards or having an individual sponsor all the awards at a specific school.

We encourage alumni to develop on-going relationships with local high schools to assist in recruiting the best students for Yale College. The Yale Book Award can be one aspect of this relationship. An alumni volunteer who "sponsors" the Yale Book Award can "adopt" the school and develop a coordinated plan for recruitment with teachers and counselors at a particular high school. If you have any questions about the Yale Book Award Program, please call (203) 432-7099. We hope you will participate this year.  Click here for more information on the Yale Book Award.