Welcome to the
Yale Club of France
le point de rencontre for Yale in France
Bienvenue
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Yale Club of France's website. Whether you are just briefly passing through France or here to stay, we hope you will consider taking part in the Yale Club activities.
Cordially,
Daniel Garcia
President
Join Mailing List
To join our mailing list, please email president@yalefrance.org with your name and alumni affiliation.
About
Mission: The Yale Club of France exists to help connect Yalies in France with each other and to help raise Yale's profile in France.
Membership: Membership is simple and inexpensive. Dues are €40 per year, €25 for recent grads (5 years or less) and free for current Yale students. Our financial year runs July-June. Simply fill out the form and pay online or by check by clicking here.
Events: From dinners with guest speakers to happy hours and cocktails, from walking tours to joint events with other Clubs (Harvard, Princeton…), we hold a variety of different events throughout the year. Our aim is to appeal to as broad an audience of alumni as possible while keeping prices reasonable. (We aim for all our events to be break-even.)
Dinner with the Yale Club
If you are a Yale faculty member, alumnus or student in France for research, please consider participating in “Dinner with the Yale Club,” a favorite event of club members. The speaker discusses a topic of their choosing over dinner with a small group of alumni (maximum 15). The idea is to recreate the stimulation of a Yale seminar in the City of Light (and veritas). Past speakers have addressed topics as diverse as the future of supercomputers, the restitution of art looted during WW2, human rights, the Dreyfus Affair, and the U.S. healthcare system. There are no honoraria but we offer the meal for the speaker and one guest. If you are interested, please contact the club President by email.
April Admissions
For September 2024 matriculation (class of 2028), we had 5 students admitted to Yale College, all of whom accepted. Applications from France were 137 (vs 123 last year), which is an admit rate of 3.8%. Many thanks to our interviewers for their hard work.
Other activities
The Club also supports efforts to help Yale, including interviews with prospective students and presenting the Yale Book Award to outstanding students in local high schools. People interested in interviewing should contact our ASC Director. With the Yale Book Award, we are pleased to award three outstanding High School juniors every year in May, from Ecole Alsacienne, Ecole Jeannine-Manuel and the Lycée International de Saint Germain-en-Laye.
Help!
None of these functions or interviews would be possible without the generous support of our members. We have a continued need for help with activities planning and undergraduate interviewing. The more help we have, the easier it is to schedule these events to better serve our members. The commitment is never very demanding for any individual, so please consider volunteering. Click here for more information.
