Harker students earn high marks and milestones on National Latin Exam
Harker students had another outstanding year taking the National Latin Exam, with 40 students earning awards and two perfect scores (Trisha Iyer, grade 10, and Jonathan Xue, grade 9). In addition, three students (Iyer, Alec Zhang, grade 10, and Nicholas Wei, grade 11) received special book awards in recognition of earning gold medals on the previous four exams. Iyer received an additional special book award for scoring perfectly on the last three exams, a feat achieved by just 26 of 100,000 test takers worldwide.
The full list of awards won by Harker is below.
Intermediate Latin:
Summa Cum Laude/Gold Medal – Kai Hong and Jeremy Peng, both grade 9
Intermediate Latin, Reading Comprehension:
Perfect Exam: Jonathan Xue, grade 9
Summa Cum Laude/Gold Medal: Omkar Govil-Nail, grade 10; Daniel Chen, Felix Chen, Andy Chung, Hima Thota, Lindsey Tuckey and Ethan Wang, all grade 9
Maxima Cum Laude/Silver Medal: Ford Johnson, grade 10; Audrey Cheng, Jason Li, Varun Thvar, grade 9
Magna Cum Laude: Hannah Levanon, grade 9
Cum Laude: Chase White, grade 10
Advanced Latin, Prose:
Summa Cum Laude/Gold Medal: Ainslie Chen, Isabella Lo, Harriss Miller, Rohan Ramkumar, Agastya Ravuri, Jason Shim, Grant Yang, all grade 9
Maxima Cum Laude/Silver Medal: Eric Zhang, Nelson Gou, both grade 9
Magna Cum Laude: Natalie Chen, grade 10; Caleb Tang, grade 9
Cum Laude: Chloe Lee, grade 10
Advanced Latin, Poetry:
Perfect Exam: Trisha Iyer, grade 10
Summa Cum Laude/Gold Medal: Catherine Li, Michelle Wei, Alec Zhang and all grade 10; Alan Jiang, grade 11
Maxima Cum Laude/Silver Medal: Kabir Ramzan and Edward Huang, both grade 10