Rivalries & rituals · Houston
Your school rival would like to borrow your uniform
Sophie Denham needed a Kinkaid costume. This meant asking a Kinkaid friend for help.
Rivalry week, 2022 & 2024Read the story
School life, between the linesBy Admissions Diary
Notes from the School Gates
School stories, admissions adventures, and the things parents talk about on the way home.
New York & beyondHistory · Culture · Parent perspectives
Parent life · Hotchkiss, Connecticut
The Laundry Exception
She invented homework to keep her parents at bay. Then she needed them.
A student’s 2025 recollectionRead the story
Parent life · Toronto
Your new sweater has lasted one day
He bought the approved version and lost it at basketball the next morning. His email to his mother would land before the sweater came back.
School life · 2015Read the story
Parent life · North Carolina & California
A gigantic feat
Saklan offered the title at its auction. The student who held it wanted to talk about the art teacher.
Saklan · May 2026Read the story
Parent life · New York & elsewhere
The Second Picture Problem
A promise sounds free until someone else wants the same thing.
Parent life · an auction promiseRead the story
Parent life · New York
The wait list had no number on it
Two adults, one pot of coffee, and a very precise position in a queue neither has seen.
Admissions season · an imagined kitchen, a real parent accountRead the story
Rivalries & rituals · Boston area
The school that feeds you at 1:40
Natalie came from Winsor, where lunch was almost an hour earlier. Belmont Hill offered a steep hill and a sled.
A student exchange visit · 2022Read the story
Rivalries & rituals · Concord, New Hampshire
He must put on his hat and shirt and vest
Dr. Coit had never felt equal to sport. He was very clear, however, about what a boy should wear for it.
Schooldays recalled in a 1906 memoirRead the story
Rivalries & rituals · New York City
Saving the Musical from the Symposium
Dalton’s cast was offered songs and a forum. They wanted their musical back.
School theater · January 2014Read the story
Rivalries & rituals · Milton, Massachusetts
Permission to Be Late
During Milton’s Gotcha game, a hunted student avoids an ambush by getting permission to arrive late.
Milton Academy’s Gotcha game · 2021Read the story
Rivalries & rituals · Troy, New York
“Hmm, interesting,” said the senior
A secret role, a polite refusal, and a costume with a past.
Revels across generationsRead the story
The school archives · New York City
Please buy the other paper
Trinity’s young editors hoped for contributors who would also be customers.
January 1928Read the story