Congratulations to the following seniors on their early induction into the Cum Laude Society - Grace Boynton '25, Allison Eichsteadt '25, Austin Graffam '25, Benjamin Getson '25, Aidan Gor '25, Luke Xiao-Ke Hu '25, Jianna Kim, Utsav Mittal '25, Umang Mittal '25, Matthew Schaffer '25, Arjun Sood, Eileen Wang '25, Roy Zhao '25, and Lawrence Zhan '25! Cum Laude is the most significant academic honor bestowed upon students at Germantown Academy. 

Secretary of the Germantown Academy chapter, Director of College Counseling Karen Mason, made the announcement to the Upper School during morning meeting. These students represent half of the Class of 2025 that will be officially inducted in June 2025. Overall, each chapter may elect up to 20 percent of the members of the senior class in the college preparatory curriculum who have an honor record. The second half of seniors will be notified in the spring.

The national Cum Laude Society, the high school version of Phi Beta Kappa, consists of over 380 chapters, approximately two dozen of which are located in public schools and the rest in independent schools in the United States, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Canada, England, France, and Spain. Some 4,000 new student members are inducted annually.

Hats off to our first set of inductees!