Yale College Admissions and Financial Aid Policy Committee

The committee provides valuable perspectives on important admissions and financial aid policy issues.

Committee Members


Pericles Lewis (Chair)
Dean of Yale College; Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English


Jeremiah Quinlan (Convener)
Dean, Undergraduate Admissions, Yale College


Surjit Chadhoke
Residential College Dean, Trumbull College; Lecturer & Research Scientist, MCDB


Edward Cooke
Charles F. Montgomery Professor of the History of Art; Director, Center of Study in American Decorative Arts and Material Culture; Professor of American Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies for History of Art


Enrique M. De La Cruz
Professor and Chair of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Head, Branford College



Karensa (Kari) DiFonzo
John M. Musser Professor of Economics and Professor of Management


Ray Fair
John M. Musser Professor of Economics and Professor of Management


Burgwell Howard
Senior Associate Dean of Yale College; Associate Vice President of Student Life


Mary Lui
Professor of American Studies and History; Head of Timothy Dwight College


Karla M. Neugebauer
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology; Director of Graduate Studies, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Director, Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine


Kishwar Rizvi
Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art and Architecture


Marc Robinson
Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and of English, Professor of American Studies, and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism


J. Lloyd Suttle
Vice Provost for Academic Resources


Patrick Vaccaro
Professor of Chemistry


Julie Zimmerman
Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of the Environment; Professor of Green Engineering, School of the Environment and School of Engineering and Applied Science