Yale Book Award

Each year in May, the Yale Club of San Diego presents the Yale Book Award to outstanding juniors attending public and private high schools in San Diego.

Recipients are selected by participating schools based on the following criteria:

• The student must be in the current Junior Class,
• The student should be in the top 2-3 % of the class,
• The student should have leadership skills,
• The student should be an “All-American,” demonstrating outstanding personal character and intellectual promise.

The schools currently participating in the program are (in alphabetical order): 

• Academy of Our Lady of Peace
• Barrio Logan College Institute
• The Bishop’s School
• Chula Vista HS
• Coronado High School
• Del Norte High School
• High Tech High
• High Tech High Chula Vista
• High Tech High Mesa
• High Tech High North County
• La Jolla Country Day School
• Patrick Henry High School
• Point Loma High School
• Reality Changers (and the Preuss School at UCSD)
• St. Augustine High School
• San Diego School of Creative & Performing Arts
• San Dieguito Academy
• Scripps Ranch High School 
• University City High School

Please contact yaleclubofsandiego@gmail.com if you would like to donate $30 toward a Yale Book Award and/or attend our book award ceremony to meet the honorees, or for information on how you can participate in the Yale Book Award Committee.