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Wen Hui Ye leads NMA Class of 2008
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Posted on May 29 2008
The Northern Marianas Academy held its 15th commencement exercises for 13 students on May 22 and members of this year’s graduating class have been accepted to over 30 universities and colleges.
Wen Hui Ye, NMA’s 2008 valedictorian, is headed to University of California at Berkeley to pursue a degree in pharmacology. Ye also graduated summa cum laude from NMC this past Saturday with an associate degree. She was also accepted to five other campuses in the University of California system – UCLA, UC San Diego, Santa Cruz, Davis and Irvine – as well as University of the Pacific and Johns Hopkins University.
This year’s salutatorian is Deborah Lee. Among her many accomplishments are inclusion on the National Dean’s List, 2008 National Merit Scholarship recipient and semifinalist in the Toyota Community Scholars program. Lee scored a perfect 800 in the Math SAT Reasoning test taken this past October. She will be departing shortly for Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she will be entering Harvard University on a full scholarship and majoring in Economics. Lee was also admitted to Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Cornell, Swarthmore, Wellesley and Vassar College. She is on the waitlist for Princeton and Williams College.
This year’s Honorable Mention awards went to Lyre Vianka Johnson and Taylor Elaine Smith. Johnson was accepted to the University of Washington and Smith will be attending Brigham Young University. Both graduated magna cum laude from Northern Marianas College.
A total of nine NMA students completed the necessary requirements to graduate from NMC, with five graduating with honors for maintaining an NMC GPA above 3.75. This year’s graduates will also be heading off to Washington State University, Seattle University, University of Washington, Eastern Washington University, Rhode Island School of Design and the U.S. Army.
The CNMI’s sole college preparatory high school, NMA has been educating the islands’ high achieving scholars since 1990. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
