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Sacred Heart Preparatory graduated 144 students on Friday, May 27 at the 118th commencement ceremony at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

 

The Class of 2016’s valedictorian is William Horvath and he will enroll at Yale University in the fall. SHP’s salutatorian is Liam Clancy and he will attend the University of Southern California.

 

The recipients of the Blue Ribbons, the highest honor Sacred Heart Prep bestows upon a senior at graduation for embodying the Goals and Criteria of a Sacred Heart Education, were: Goal I: A personal and active faith in God – Juliana Ayala Garcilazo, Mark Bechtel and Jacquelyn Louie; Goal II: A deep respect for intellectual values – John Desler and Komal Kumar; Goal III: A social awareness which impels to action – Lauren Morrissey and Jaclyn Tsiang; Goal IV: The building of community as a Christian value – Joshua Lin, Brianna Roque and Sarah Spreng; and Goal V: Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom – Diaja Smith.

 

The Dark Blue Ribbons were presented to Edward Catlin, Andrew Daschbach and Sofia Surraco for exemplifying all five Goals and Criteria.

 

Graduates from the Class of 2016 will attend 70 different post-secondary institutions. Sixty-eight will attend colleges in California, 76 are enrolling in institutions out of state and 30 graduates will attend Catholic colleges. Twenty-seven students earned recognition by the National Merit Scholarship program, 18 have committed to play collegiate athletics and 17 members of the graduating class have been on the Sacred Heart campus for 12 or more years.

 

Academy of Art University

Beloit College

Boston College

Brown University

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Cal Poly, Pomona

Chapman University

Claremont McKenna College

Colgate University

Columbia University

Cornell University

DePaul University

Duke University

Georgetown University

Gonzaga University

Holy Cross College

Indiana University at Bloomington

Johns Hopkins University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola University Chicago

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mount St. Mary’s University

New York University

Northeastern University

Northern Arizona University

Presbyterian College

Saint Mary’s College of California

Santa Clara University

Scripps College

Southern Methodist University

St. John’s College

Stanford University

Texas Christian University

The University of Arizona

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of Texas, Austin

Trinity College

Tufts University

Tulane University

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of Chicago

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Kansas

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Michigan

University of Mississippi

University of Notre Dame

University of Oregon

University of Pennsylvania

University of Richmond

University of San Diego

University of San Francisco

University of Southern California

University of St. Andrews

University of the Pacific

University of Virginia

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Vassar College

Wake Technical Community College

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Yale University