Imagine: it’s February, and you are sitting in the sophomore-junior section of the dining hall attempting to admire the snow flurries through the arched windows, but every few seconds, your serenity is interrupted by: “Shoot, I’m about to go bankrupt!” “Do you have RMUs? Please, I really need some.” “It’sRead More

“Animals are my passion,” Ms. Jackie Richo said when asked about her role as the founder of Friends of the Wallingford Animal Shelter (FWAS), a 501c nonprofit organization established to provide support for the local animal Shelter. Ms. Richo, who once dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, created the nonprofit inRead More

When Mr. Mitch Gibbs, Director of the Wallingford Animal Shelter, thinks about local animal conservation, he thinks of the time a town resident reported a stray cat he’d seen on his security footage. The cat had an infected wound encircling three quarters of his neck, and Mr. Gibbs reported thatRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News Hunger hits me the strongest after swim practice, but a close second is anytime my brain is working — while studying, calculating the latest possible time I can get up for class without arriving late, or thinking about how long a spider web hasRead More

Photo courtesy of Yujin Kim ’23 Dear Miss Tiffany Xiao, We regret to inform you that our credible sources have leaked information that lead us to question your competence as a Choate student. This investigation is still in its early stages, so consider gathering some friends from the mock trialRead More

In June of 2021, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) task force released its final report detailing the work the committee completed during weekly meetings and through outside engagement between the summer of 2020 and the end of the 2020-2021 school year.  The DEI task force is a group separateRead More

I applied to only three boarding schools on the east coast: the top three. During the summer of seventh grade — months before I began the high school application process — Choate was ranked fifth among private high schools and third among boarding schools by Niche, the popular online resourceRead More

Photos Courtesy of Will Gilyard and Amanda Arcand Choate is a “place of many paths,” and for some alumni, the path out of Choate leads them right back to their alma mater. For many alumni teachers, today’s campus has undergone some major physical changes since they were students here. Mr.Read More

On February 19, the School came together over Zoom for a Community Conversation on Pan-Asian identity. Students and faculty were required to attend the event. The topics discussed included questions about whether Pan-Asian-identifying members of the  community have experienced increased anti-Asian and xenophobia after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic;Read More