Cum Laude Inductees

University School recently inducted 21 seniors into the National Cum Laude Society. This year's ceremony featured keynote speaker Alan Cate, Chairman of University School's History Department. Click HERE to read his remarks about Excellence.

The Cum Laude Society was founded in 1906 to honor academic excellence, and University School was one of four original founding schools. Its intention is to provide the equivalent of the collegiate Phi Beta Kappa Honors to the most distinguished graduating high school seniors. By rules of the society, the number of inductees is limited to twenty percent of the senior class.

James Garrett, secretary of the University School chapter of the Cum Laude Society, inducted the following University School seniors into the Society:

Nicholas Bi
Mitchell Black
Nathaniel Blakeway-Phillips
Connor Clemens
Braeden Dolan
Alan Dowling
Michael Gaudiani
Alexander Husni
Edward "Max" Karakul
Evan Meisler
B. Andrew Murphy
Patrick Murphy
Michael Pokorny
Andrew Preiser
Christopher Rothfusz
Akaljot Singh
Rahul Singh (recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Award)
Jackson Sinnenberg
Nicholas Witchey
Wu Yantao
Dylan Zabell