Woodinville Montessori High School graduates two

Woodinville Montessori High School (WMHS) graduated its two seniors on June 16, and both will enroll in the University of Washington’s School of Engineering this fall.

Anisha Chutani won a National Merit Scholarship (she is the school’s first National Merit Scholar), and both she and classmate Megan Hong received Washington State Honors Awards for ranking in the top 10 percent of the Washington state high school graduating class of 2018. Between the two, they received 18 college acceptances from the 21 applications they submitted, and another was wait-listed. Both students were directly admitted to the UW’s engineering school.

Also among the acceptances were Indiana University, Purdue University, Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, University of California Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz, the University of British Columbia and Western Washington University. Private colleges offered them merit aid averaging $90,000 over four years, with total merit aid offers from all schools equaling $408,000 over four years.

This is WMHS’s second commencement since its expansion to a full four-year high school in 2016-2017, when the first three seniors graduated. Among the five graduates so far, there have been one National Merit Scholar and two National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Students; and three winners of Washington State Honors Awards. The high school is located on Woodinville Montessori School’s Bothell campus, which serves students ranging in age from toddler through 12th grade.