After careful consideration of your application, we regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you a spot in our Class of 2029 because you're not good enough. This year's application pool was all...
After five years of taking tests in every core class, I finally had the opportunity to take a non-exam based academic course: AP U.S. Government and Politics. This class, unlike any I had taken before,...
Audrey Kim, Assistant Opinion Editor November 12, 2024
In middle school, I was studying for an impending math test when the COVID-19 lockdown hit. My math teacher made the test open note and said she would make the questions easier. I immediately stopped doing...
When Steve Jobs announced a revolutionary new type of smartphone in 2007, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted its unprecedented impact on an entire generation of society . Almost all of us...
Audrey Kim, Assistant Opinion Editor September 16, 2024
As I scrolled through a random Google Images search, I saw two versions of one painting that looked almost identical. Though it wasn't obvious, a closer glance showed one had several inconsistencies and...
When Oceangate’s Titan submersible lost contact with its mothership on June 18, news outlets around the world were constantly publishing updates, captivating viewers globally. The entire world shifted...
When National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, she laid out a vision of hope and unity for the United States' next...
Millions of Californians, including many school seniors, can now find mail-in ballots on their doorstep. The helm of our state government hangs in the balance. Recall organizers garnered more than 2 million...
My heart pounded as I rubbed chalk onto my hands, hoping I would remember the intricate sequence of skills that comprised my uneven bars routine. I rehearsed it mentally for weeks, a welcome distraction...
When students submit their ballots for prefect elections in the spring, they will make two reasonable assumptions: their votes will be counted, and the candidates with the highest number of votes will...
In October of 2020, The Chronicle published an article about the Instagram account @wokeathw, a platform dedicated to “documenting the self-destruction of an elite private school.” The article was...
The following letter was written by a student to journalist Bari Weiss in response to her article “The Miseducation of America’s Elites,” which was published March 9 in City Journal magazine. To...
