Clubs & Extracurricular Activities
Clubs and Special Interest Groups
Choate has a wide variety of academic and special interest groups that are supervised either by department or section heads (academic) or by a Student Activities Coordinator (non-academic). At the opening of school, students have opportunities to explore, express interest, and enroll in clubs, either at ClubFest (non-academic) or at specially arranged after-school meetings (academic).
Creation of Clubs
New clubs must be approved by COSA (Committee on Student Activities). The student council vice president will serve as the chair of COSA, and the adviser will be a Director of Student Activities. A group can petition COSA for official club status, provided that it has an active roster and mission statement/constitution on file in the Office of Student Activities and a faculty sponsor. Such groups, once approved, will be considered “active.” While the school, acting through COSA, may approve club status for a group, this recognition does not necessarily imply school support for the point of view taken by the group. If a club, either by its creation, membership, or activities, creates inappropriate disruption of the school climate, the school reserves the right to revoke its status as a club.
Please visit http://studentweb.choate.edu for more information on student clubs and organizations.