The London School of Economics and Political Science is one of the world’s most prestigious colleges. According to Business Insider, LSE has produced at least 32 world leaders and 14 Nobel Prize winners.
Since 2017, AAIA has had the distinguished honor of one of its 11th graders receiving LSE’s alumni association’s LSE Excellence Award.
2017: Wilson Chiu (University of Michigan)
2018: Alvin Yao (University of Michigan)
2019: Winny Peng (Stanford University)
2020: Jamie Beach (University of Florida)
2021: Patty Liu (University of Queensland)
2022: Ellie Huang (University of California Los Angeles)
2023: Elizabeth Ng (University of Michigan)
2024: Emma Wang (University of Southern California)
This award carries additional prominence when you consider how LSE’s alumni include the President of Taiwan Ing-Wen Tsai, billionaire investor George Soros, World Bank senior vice president and chief economist Kaushik Basu, and Hailo APP CEO Jay Bregman. Additionally, former US President John F. Kennedy, famed natural historian Sir David Attenborough, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, and the University of California President Janet Napolitano all attended LSE.
Each spring, AAIA’s faculty and staff have the option of nominating an 11th grader who consistently performs at an exemplary academic level, shows positive behavior, and demonstrates excellent leadership skills along with exceptional performance aside from school work. For the Class of 2026, the following students were nominated (in alphabetical order by last name):
Ishan Mukhopadhyaya
Sarina Tsai
The above students should feel honored and proud to be nominated by a teacher/staff member for such a prestigious award.
After the nominations were gathered, all faculty and staff members had the right to vote for the student they felt was most-qualified (a difficult decision, since all of the students are so strong).
Consequently, at this time it is the school’s privilege to announce that Sarina Tsai is this year’s recipient of the LSE Excellence Award.
Congratulations to Sarina, and thank you to all of the Class of 2026 students who continue to embrace AAIA’s ESLOs in order to make a positive and lasting impact on the greater community.
