Congratulations are in order for the 54 graduates, who have a 100 percent college acceptance rate, and have been accepted into many top universities. As of May 15, the class already received more than $3.9 million in scholarships and grants! Click here to check out the complete list.
The Class of 2015, which is the largest for the academy so far, includes 14 graduates from Westlake Academy?s inaugural first grade class in 2003. In addition, 16 seniors have been named AP Scholars, many with Honor, and five students were recognized as National Merit Commended Scholars, a designation reserved for the top two percent of the 1.5 million entrants in the National Merit Scholarship competition. Those five students are Annie Hans, Bilal Khurshid, Nils Lindroth, Katie McKinney, and Anisse Sircar.
Valedictorian is Avneet (Annie) Hans of Fort Worth. Annie will be attending the University of Texas at Dallas and has been accepted as a pre-med student in the PACT program, a collaborative program between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical School. Salutatorian is Katherine (Katie) McKinney of Southlake. Katie will be attending Duke University and also plans to study medicine with a major in Neuroscience and a minor in Spanish.
Other college acceptances for Westlake Academy?s Class of 2015 include several top 100 ?Best National University? and schools in the top 100 ?Lowest Acceptance Rates,? or most selective, according to U.S. News & World Report 2015 edition. Those schools include Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Northwestern University, Tulane University, University of California- Los Angeles, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University.