Alexis Wolff
Alexis Wolff
Recent Stories
A different income, a different college experience
My mom worried when I decided to apply to Yale, but not that I wouldn't get in. She worried that I would get in, and that she would have to tell me I couldn't go. No one from my town had attended Yale -- or any other Ivy League university -- and so...
Seniors choose present fun over future worries
The clock is ticking. In just over three months, the Class of 2003 will have to enter the "real world." But for now, seniors want to have fun. Some are able to relax, knowing their plans for next year are set, but many seniors are merely climbing...
Seniors ponder options for life after graduation
In seven months, Yale will evict the class of 2003. In the meantime, seniors are going through the motions of planning their futures -- taking LSATs, scheduling interviews, filling out applications -- and hoping that on May 26, 2003, everything will...
Anthrax threats slow SAT scores
Some may not be eligible for early decision
The College Board announced Tuesday that as many as 7,800 answer sheets from the Oct. 13 SAT have not arrived in Princeton, N.J., where the tests are scored, potentially leaving early decision candidates at Yale and elsewhere with incomplete...
Harvard to e-mail acceptance letters
Harvard University will join Yale and Dartmouth in announcing admissions decisions online for applicants to the Class of 2006, but will use e-mail and not a Web site. The decision comes shortly after Yale said it will use the Internet for admissions...
Sept. 11 desensitizes students to plane crash
More than 250 people died in a plane crash in Queens, N.Y., Monday. But the reactions of many Yale students were muted -- many said the death toll seemed insignificant in comparison with the thousands killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Yale to e-mail early decision applicants
Susanna Moore, an applicant to Yale's class of 2006, breathed a sigh of relief in late October when she dropped her finished application in the mailbox. But now Moore is again holding her breath, waiting for confirmation that her application made it...
Yale keeps watch on students abroad
Studying in Egypt, Aaisha Tracy '03 said she was quarantined in her dorm Sept. 11 while the U.S. Embassy debated whether to evacuate the American school after the terrorist attacks in the United States. Tracy is one of 25 Yale students in study abroad...
Yale alum has skin anthrax
Yale alumnus Mark Cunningham '85, an editor at the New York Post, has been diagnosed as having skin anthrax. His case was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nov. 2, making it the 18th anthrax case in the United States since...
Despite fears, applications to college roll in
Only one senior at Stuyvesant High School -- located four blocks north of what used to be the World Trade Center -- has told counselor Patricia Cleary that she is looking for a nearby college so she can travel by car. But that comes from a lifelong...