Twenty-two students will receive high school diplomas from The Davidson Academy this year. The 2012 graduates and their post-secondary plans are as follows: 

• Zach Becker - University of Nevada, Reno

• Brendan Beemer - Reed College

• Amy Bodner - University of Puget Sound

• Marty Boren - University of Nevada, Reno

• Colbie Chinowsky - Mount Holyoke College

• Sam Crognale - Stanford University

• David Ellison - California Polytechnic State University

• Claire Evans - Vanderbilt University

• Anthony Fidaleo -  Washington University in St. Louis

• Daniel Hickox-Young - St. Olaf College

• Stephan Kim - Pomona College

• Fangzhou Liu - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

• Duncan MacKinnon - Hampshire College

• Justin Otor - Princeton University

• Mikhaila Powers - gap year

• Abe Reynolds - University of Nevada, Reno

• Esteban Valle - Lewis & Clark College

• Ashley Van Havel - Villanova University

• Nick Vienneau - Sierra Nevada College

• Alex Wade - Phillips Exeter Academy

• Chloe Williamson - Wellesley College

• Taylor Wilson - Thiel Fellowship

Evans was named a Presidential Scholar, one of only 141 students nationwide to receive this honor (http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/index.html). Crognale, Ellison, Evans, Fidaleo, Hickox-Young, Otor, Vienneau, Williamson are National Merit Scholar finalists (http://www.nationalmerit.org/). Otor was named a winner of the National Achievement Scholarship and a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Evans and Fidaleo were also named the Nevada state winners of the 2011 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement (AP).

Seven of the graduates, Crognale, Ellison, Evans, Fidaleo, Hickox-Young, Kim and Vienneau, started at The Davidson Academy during the school's first year in 2006.  A total of 41 students have now graduated from the Academy.