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Princeton Day School Class of 2011 Honors and Distinctions

Princeton—In possibly the most competitive admissions season in a decade, Princeton Day School’s senior class distinguished itself in the admissions process. The 97 members of the Class of 2011 achieved at the highest levels in academics, athletics, and the arts, submitting a total of 939 applications to 204 of the most selective colleges across the US and abroad. Princeton Day School is pleased to announce that this year’s seniors have been admitted to some of the most competitive liberal arts, engineering, architecture, music, visual arts, dance, and theater programs in the country.

Colleges and universities offering admission to members of the senior class include: Bates (5), Boston College (3), Bowdoin (3), Brown (3), Carnegie Mellon (4), Colby (3), Colgate (4), Columbia (5), Cornell (4), Dartmouth (4), Dickinson (10), Emory (3), Franklin and Marshall (8), George Washington (6), Georgetown (6), Johns Hopkins (4), Lafayette (7), the University of Michigan (5), Middlebury (4), New York University (5), the University of Notre Dame (3), Oberlin (5), the University of Pennsylvania (3), Princeton (6), Richmond (6), Rutgers (12), Trinity (5), Tufts (6), Tulane (4), the University of Vermont (13), the University of Virginia (3), Washington University in St. Louis (4), Wesleyan (5), and the College of William and Mary (3).

Also noteworthy is that twenty percent of the class received a binding Early Decision acceptance, and a significant portion of the class received a merit scholarship to at least one college to which they applied. In addition, at least 17 members of the senior class have been recruited to play for their respective college teams.

The following sixteen students graduated from Princeton Day School with cum laude honors: Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Jane Coates, Alexandra DeCandia, Kerry Dillon, Eric Falcon, Adam Fisch, Kevin Francfort, Alison Frieder, Katherine Gibson, Alexander Ioffreda, Jacob Kaufman, Kaleigh McLaughlin, Christopher Moyer, Allison Reilly, Rebecca Sokol, and Rebecca Wong.

In addition, below are the Upper School Academic Award Winners for 2011:

Alumni Award: Daphnée Warren and Alexandra DeCandia

Sacks-Wilner Award: Jamier Gee and Daphnée Warren

Woodbridge Award: Karthik Nagalingam, Maxime Hoppenot and Daniel Kossow

Anne Shepherd Humanities Prize: Marissa Applegate

English Award: Adam Fisch

Writing Award: Jonathan Walker and Rebecca Wong

History Award: Eric Falcon and Jacob Kaufman

Math Award: Adam Fisch

Computer Award: Benjamin Burwell

Hubert Alyea Award: Jacob Kaufman

Biology Award: Maya Anjur-Dietrich

Chemistry Award: Jane Coates

Physics Award: Adam Fisch

Elizabeth Fine Latin Award: Alexandra DeCandia and Jane Coates

French Award: Eric Falcon

Princeton U. Institute for French Studies: Lily Halpern and Dominique Jones

Chinese Award: Ariel Multak and Kerry Dillon

Spanish Award: Samuel Kelly

Multi-Language Award: Jacob Kaufman

Painting Award and Drawing Award: Cara Sunberg and Lilia Sanzalone

Architecture Award: Katherine Gibson and Kaleigh McLaughlin

Media Award: Tiffany Patterson

Photography Award: Rebecca Sokol and Caylin Brahaney

The Winstanley Art Purchase Award: Christopher Moyer

The Thomas Bencze Art Scholarship Award: Svitlana Lymar

Ceramics Award: Sydney Jenkins

Andy Franz Award: Jeffrey Berger and Adam Fisch

Music Award: Kevin Chen, Alexander Ioffreda, Daphnée Warren and Anthony James Yost Jr.

Theater Program Award: Nicolas Muoio and Benjamin Burwell

Dance Award: Alexus Davis

PDS Scholar-Athlete Award: Kevin Francfort, Sydney Jenkins and Allison Reilly

Gold ‘P’ Girl: Carly O’Brien and Katherine Gibson

Gold ‘P’ Boy: Schuyler Samse and Peter Blackburn

Frankie K. Sportsmanship Award: Jacqueline Stevens, Jessica Frieder, Kevin Francfort, Christopher Bonnaig, and Aaron Shavel