Join us for this momentous occasion, celebrating the Class of 2023, as they take their next steps into the world.
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Category: Alumni
SATs, ACTs and the Evolving College Application Process
As we celebrate the extraordinary college and university choices of the Class of 2021, now it’s time to focus on this year’s senior class. Testing, the vagaries of college admission, its cost, and its impact on students continues to make the college application process complex
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The Lycée Commemorates 9/11, 20 Years After
This September, like all the inhabitants of New York City, the Lycée Français de New York is remembering the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.
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Lycée Honors Dr. Sylvie de Souza, Class of 1981
The Lycée Français de New York honors alumna Dr. Sylvie de Souza, Chair of Emergency Medicine at Brooklyn Hospital Center during Tous Ensemble: Lycée Strong, its first ever online Gala.
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College Admissions in Zoom Times
When Covid-19 arrived last spring, could we have imagined how it would disrupt our lives so completely? While education writ large has been affected, the impact on students applying to college has been magnified. Suddenly, the college planning process is hosted online. Annual rituals like college visits, campus interviews, and
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Systemic Racism: Looking for Solutions
On Friday, June 12, the Lycée Français de New York held a panel on systemic racism, in the wake of the protests across the country following the brutal death of George Floyd. At the Lycée, our work on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) started several years ago, with, most recently,
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200 Alumni Strong!
On November 16th, we welcomed close to 200 alumni at our alumni reunion cocktail, at the Dear Irving on Hudson rooftop at the Aliz Hotel in Times Square. Old classmates saw each other again, some after more than 30 years apart. Younger and older generations mixed and discovered one another. Some
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Alumni Stories: Mariana Suarez ‘16 and Immigration Legal Aid
Lycée Français de New York alumna Mariana Suarez ‘16 will be starting her senior year at Yale University this fall, but she was also hard at work all summer. She put her interest in immigration law to use by completing an internship with the non-profit legal aid group, KIND (Kids
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Where Do Lycée Graduates Go to College?
As I write this blog, the members of the Lycée Class of 2019 are just beginning their first year in colleges and universities across North America and in several countries around the world. What a remarkable group of scholars! We have writers, artists, future diplomats, doctors, lawyers, teachers and data
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Bernard Harcourt (’81): Law in Practice
In late spring 2016, Julia Pagnamenta ’06 went to visit Bernard Harcourt ’81 at his office at the Columbia University Law School, where he is Professor of Law and Political Science, and the founder and director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. After the Lycée, he went to
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