OKLAHOMA CITY -- Officials at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics will host an information session on Yale University 3-5 p.m. Aug. 24, on the school's campus in the Manning Academic Center Auditorium, 1141 North Lincoln Blvd. The session is open to interested high school students and their parents and is free of charge. Yale alumni also are encouraged to attend.

Jean Lee, associate director of undergraduate admissions for Yale, will be the featured speaker. She will discuss information regarding admission requirements, academic programs, financial aid and campus life at Yale.

"We are pleased to make it possible for areawide students to obtain first-hand information about Yale," Gary Salwierak, OSSM college counselor, said. He also noted that the first OSSM student to matriculate to Yale was in 1993 and hosting the annual session is a distinctive experience.

Directions to OSSM and an optional registration form are available on the Yale Admissions Web site link: http://admissions.yale.edu/events.

OSSM was created through legislative action in 1983 and is designed as a two-year residential public high school for academically gifted junior and senior students in mathematics and science.

For more information, visit the school's Web site www.ossm.edu.