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Spotlight On Success:
Academic Success Stories

Curtis Wu

School: Kraemer GATE Program, Valencia, Class of 2010

Awards: AP Scholar With Distinction Award

College: M.I.T.

Curtis attended Kraemer Middle School’s GATE program and is currently a senior at Valencia High School where he has been accepted to M.I.T. He is a 4-Star Tennis player, has received the AP Scholar with Distinction Award and has just been named a National Merit Finalist for the National Merit Scholarship Program at Valencia H.S.

Stephanie Hammel

School: Kraemer GATE Program, Valencia I.B., Class of 2008

Awards: Empire League Athlete of the Year, California Athletic Directors Assoc. Athlete of the Year

College: UCI

After graduating high school, Stephanie, age 17, entered UCI as a junior. She received a full athletic scholarship for tennis.

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“Senior Tennis star, Stephanie Hammel was recently named the Empire League Athlete of the Year, the CIF Southern Section Scholar Athlete of the Year and the California Athletic Directors Association Athlete of the Year. She has an overall GPA of 4.48 while playing sports and being enrolled in the rigorous International Baccalaureate Program. Way to go, Stephanie!”

– Article courtesy of Valencia HS Tiger Tales, June 2009.

Andrea Kulier

School: Kraemer Middle GATE Program

College: CSULA, class of 2009; Princeton

Awards: EEP, Captain of CSLA 2009 Science Olympiad team, Ted C. Bradbury Memorial Award in Theoretical Physics, as well as numerous scholarships

After attending Kraemer Middle School, Andrea promoted in 2005 then skipped high school and directly attended college at CSLA where she received duel bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics. She is now going on to study theoretical cosmology at Princeton earning her PhD.

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OC Register Article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/kulier-148999-university-college.html

Croatia.org web site: http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9814/1/Andrea-Kulier-17-years-old-Croatian-in-the-USA-to-study-cosmology-at-Princeton.html

CSULA, EEL article: http://www.earlyentrancefoundation.org/peep/EEPsummer09.html

ABC7 Cook Kids article: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community/kids&id=6919489