Sutton Trust US Programme 2014

Yale Week - Timed Student Agenda

Accommodation
All students and staff will stay at Davenport College (Yale accommodation) for the duration of the residential, at the address below
Davenport College Yale
248 York St
New Haven, CT 06511
Date

Tuesday, 5 August

Time

13:00

Activity/Session Title
Students meet staff and Team Leaders at
Heathrow Airport

Location

Speakers Involved

Heathrow Airport, Terminal

3, Zone A. Please see US
Week Pack for specific
location of meeting point.

Student notes

Students will meet staff and Team Leaders at this location to check
in.

Check in & go through security in teams

15:15
15:45

Students meet Team Leaders at set meeting point Heathrow Aiport, after
to go to gate
security
Heathrow Airport, at flight
All students and staff at gate
gate

17:10

Virgin flight departure time

19:40

Virgin flight arrives to Boston Logan

20:30 (approx)

Bus pick up and departs for Yale University

23:00 (approx)

Bus arrival at Yale University

Boston Logan International

Airport
BUS 1 (54 seater): Jamie Dunn, Rebecca Clegg, Steph, Daniella,
Lizzie, Billy teams. BUS 2 (54 seater): Rosie Hodgart, Paige, Jouja,
Leo, Elliott, Joseph's team
Davenport College, Yale
University

Check into rooms

Wednesday 6
August

00:00

Lights out

07:00

Wake up & get ready

08:00 - 08:30

Breakfast

08:30

Walk to Linsly-Chittenden (LC) in teams

08:45 - 09:00

Introduction & Welcome

09:00 - 10:00

Yale Admissions Information Session

10:00 - 11:30

Yale Campus Tour

11:30 - 12:15

Lunch

12:15

Walk to LC in teams

12:30 - 14:00

Masterclass: A Grand Strategic Interpretation of

the American Constitution

14:15 - 15:15

Visit British Art Center OR Yale Art Gallery (see

assignments in Student Notes)

Students meet their Team Leaders in the Davenport dining hall and
have breakfast in teams

Davenport Dining Hall

Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room

101
Rosie Hodgart
Rebekah Westphal

Davenport Dining Hall

Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room

101
Akil Reed Amar
British Art Center or Yale Art
Gallery

Tour of British Art Center: Paige, Jouja, Leo, Elliott, Joseph's team
(Joseph leading)
Tour of Yale Art Gallery: Steph, Daniella, Lizzie, Billy's teams. (Billy
leading)

15:15
15:15 - 15:40
15:45 - 17:00

Walk to LC in teams
Comfort Break
Masterclass: Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room
Brain Tumours
101
Mark Saltzman

17:00 - 17:10

Comfort Break

17:10 - 17:45

Plan for Tomorrow & Networking Tips

17:45

Walk to Davenport in teams

18:00 - 19:00

Dinner

19:00

Walk to Yale Bookstore in teams

19:00 - 20:00

Yale Bookstore Visit

Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room

101
Rosie Hodgart

Davenport Dining Hall

Yale Bookstore

Team Leaders will either be in the shop or will wait outside. You
should not leave to walk back to the accommodation without your
Team Leader.

After bookstore trip, walk back to Davenport in

teams

Thursday, 7 August

22:00

Lights out

05:30

Wake up & get ready

06:00

Pick up packed breakfasts

Meet Team Leaders outside Davenport

Before lights out, make sure you have everything ready for your
day in New York. Students should wear their reception clothes as
there will be no opporunity to change (unless you want to change
something on the bus e.g. put on a different jacket/jumper or
change your shoes).

Davenport Dining Hall

Do not board buses until you have checked in with your Team
Leader

06:15

Board buses in teams and depart for New York

08:45

Arrive at Columbia/Barnard

09:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
12:15

Outside Davenport

BUS 1 (54 seater): Jamie Dunn, Rebecca Clegg, Steph, Daniella,

Lizzie, Billy teams. BUS 2 (54 seater): Rosie Hodgart, Paige, Jouja,
Leo, Elliott, Joseph's team

Columbia/Barnard, New York

All females are led to Barnard by Rosie, males go to Columbia

bookstore with Jamie

Barnard Admissions Information Session (females)

/ Columbia Bookstore Visit (males)
Barnard Campus Tour (females) / Columbia
Campus Tour (males)
Columbia Admissions Information Session (all
students)
Columbia University
Board buses with lunch

13:30 - 15:40

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

15:40

Meet your Team Leader in the Memorial Park YOU MUST NOT BE LATE

16:00

Board buses, travel to reception

17:30 - 19:00

British Consulate General - New York Reception

19:00

Board buses, depart for Yale

21:00/22:00

Arrive at Yale

National September 11
Memorial & Museum
See your 9/11 Memorial
Park Map for meeting point
If you need to change your shoes/jacket etc then this is the time to
do so.
British Consul-General's
Apartment, 351 East 51st
Street, New York

Davenport College

Late dinner

Friday, 8 August

23:00

Lights out

06:30

Wake up & get ready

07:15

Pick up packed breakfasts

Davenport Dining Hall

Meet Team Leaders outside Davenport

07:30

Board buses in teams and depart for Princeton

10:45

Arrive at Princeton

11:15 - 12:30

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Princeton Campus Tour

14:15 - 15:30

Princeton Information Session

16:00

Bus departs for Yale University

19:00 - 20:00

Arrive at Yale University, Dinner

Outside Davenport

20:00 - 21:30

Free time on campus

21:30

Check in with Team Leaders at Davenport

22:00

Lights out

06:00

Wake up & get ready

07:15

Pick up packed breakfasts

BUS 1 (54 seater): Jamie Dunn, Steph, Daniella, Lizzie, Billy teams.
BUS 2 (54 seater): Rebecca Clegg, Paige, Jouja, Leo, Elliott, Joseph's
team

Princeton University

Davenport Dining Hall

Students can return to Davenport or stay on campus in the
boundaries. Students may not go to New Haven Green. Students
must remain in groups of 3 at all times. Two Team Leaders will
remain on duty in the main area of Old Campus and Davenport at
all times.

Davenport Common Room

Saturday, 9 August

Davenport Dining Hall

Meet Team Leaders outside Davenport

07:30

Board buses in teams and depart for Amherst

(pink) OR Smith (blue)

09:45

Arrive at Amherst

10:00 - 11:00

Amherst Campus Tour

11:00 - 12:00

Amherst Admissions Information Session

12:00 - 12:45

Lunch

13:00

Bus departs for Yale University

15:00

Bus arrival at Yale University

09:45

Arrive at Smith

10:00 - 11:00

Smith Admissions Information Session

11:15 - 12:00

Smith Campus Tour

Outside Davenport
Amherst College

Smith College

BUS 1 (54 seater): Rosie Hodgart, Daniella, Billy, Elliott, Leo,

Joseph's teams. BUS 2 (54 seater): Jamie Dunn, Rebecca Clegg,
Paige, Steph, Lizzie, Jouja & Daniella's teams

12:00 - 12:45

Lunch

13:00

Bus departs for Yale University

15:00

Bus arrival at Yale University

15:00 - 18:00

Free time on campus

18:00 - 19:00

Dinner

19:00 - 20:30

US Quiz

20:30 - 21:30

Free time in Davenport

Students can return to Davenport or stay on campus in the

boundaries. Students may not go to New Haven Green. Students
must remain in groups of 3 at all times. Two Team Leaders will
remain on duty in the main area of Old Campus and Davenport at
all times.

Yale University

Sunday, 10 August

Monday, 11 August

Tuesday, 12 August

22:00

Lights out

07:00

Wake up & get ready

08:00 - 08:45

Breakfast

08:45

Walk to Linsly-Chittenden (LC) in teams

09:00 - 11:00

Behind The Curtain of College Admissions: Mock

Admissions Event

11:00 - 11:30

Comfort Break

11:30 - 13:00

Next Steps on the US Programme

13:00 - 13:50

Lunch with MIT group

13:50

Walk to Linsly-Chittenden (LC) in teams

14:00 - 15:30

17 Years in 650 Words or Less: Essay Workshop

15:30 - 15:45

Comfort Break

15:45 - 16:30

SAT Subject Test Registration

16:30 - 17:15

Interviewing for Success

17:15

Walk back to Davenport in teams

17:30 - 18:50

Dinner with MIT group

18:50

Walk to LC in teams

19:00 - 20:15

Panel Session: Meet the Brittish Bulldogs!

20:15 - 20:30

Wrap up & Plan for tomorrow

20:30

Walk back to Davenport in teams

20:30 - 22:00

Free time in Davenport to pack

22:00

Lights out

05:30

Wake up & get ready

06:00

Team Leader room check

06:15

Pick up packed breakfasts & check out

06:30

Board buses in teams and depart for Harvard

09:30

Arrive at Harvard

09:55 - 12:15

Information Session/Campus Tour

12:15 - 12:55

Lunch, then return to auditorium

13:00 - 13:50

Exhibitors Introduction

14:00 - 16:15

University Fair

16:30

Board bus, travel to Boston Logan Airport

17:30

Arrive at Boston Logan Airport

21:40

Flight departure time

09:10

Arrive at London Heathrow Airport & depart

Davenport Dining Hall

Davenport Dining Hall or
Davenport Common Room

Billy Cavell

Davenport College

Students can have free time in Davenport building and courtyard.

Team Leaders will remain on duty in Davenport at all times. At
21:30 all students must go to their rooms for lights out at 22:00.

Davenport Dining Hall

Meet Team Leader at breakfast

Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room

101
Rebekah Westphal

Jillian Moskowitz, Lauren

Welch, James Turner
Davenport Dining Hall

Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room

101
Sally McGinty

Alexa Goodlad

All students must bring their photo to this session for their
registration form.

Alexa Goodlad

Davenport Dining Hall

Linsly-Chittenden (LC), Room Lavishka Katwa & Yale

101
Student Panel
Rosie Hodgart

Students should be fully ready to go. All rubbish must be taken

down to the trash room and all students should double check they
have left nothing in their room, bathroom or suite common area.

Students must be fully ready to check out. They will be briefed on

how this will work.
Davenport Dining Hall

Outside Davenport

BUS 1 (54 seater): Jamie Dunn, Rebecca Clegg, Steph, Daniella,

Lizzie, Billy teams. BUS 2 (54 seater): Rosie Hodgart, Paige, Jouja,
Leo, Elliott, Joseph's team

CGIS South

Students leave luggage in the bus and go to CGI South.

Boston Logan Airport

Students go through border control, pick up luggage, check out

with their Team Leader, then depart independently.