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Photo courtesy of Milken Scholarship Program
Photo courtesy of Milken Scholarship Program
Photo courtesy of Milken Scholarship Program
Caoimhe Boyle, a graduate of the Chapin School, will study math and economics at Princeton University this fall.
Roy Kim, the son of Korean immigrants, is graduating from the Dalton School and will study economics and public policy at Princeton.
Angelo Osofsky, a Regis High School grad, is heading off to Harvard University to study developmental and regenerative biology.
UPPER EAST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL GRADS WIN SCHOLARSHIP, MENTORSHIP HONORS BY SYDNEY PEREIRA Three 2018 graduates of Upper East Side high schools have been selected among this year’s Milken Scholars. Caoimhe Boyle, Roy Kim, and Angelo Osofsky were chosen for their academic performance, community service, demonstrated leadership, and ability to persevere in tough situations. In their high schools, the young scholars took the lead on efforts from reducing food waste and working with administrators to support transgender students to climbing up the ranks in New York State’s debate competitions. The scholarship program — founded three decades ago by philanthrophists Michael Milken, the former financier, and his wife Lori — is open to students in New York City, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, with scholars given $10,000 and a lifetime of mentoring and resources. A total of six New York high schoolers were chosen.
CAOIMHE BOYLE Boyle has lived on the Upper East Side for 16 years, where her father is a building superintendent. She has attended the Chapin School, a private, all-girls school
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on East End Ave. near Carl Schurz Park, her entire educational career and graduated in a class of 58 students. Since eighth grade, she has been a student government representative and last year became the student government president. “In my role of president, I grew a lot as a leader in terms of the fact that I had new responsibility of organizing various events,” she said. “I ran weekly assemblies, and I had to get used to those responsibilities and larger projects and initiatives.” During her time in student government, Boyle pushed for a no-uniform day on Fridays, raised money for brain cancer awareness, and was a student representative on Chapin’s Community Life and Diversity Council where she advocated for transgender students. One win she highlighted was the change in the designation of bathrooms from “ladies’ room” to “Chapin student restrooms.” “Basically, the point of this project was to look at how culture and curriculum at Chapin impact trans students and what we can be doing to make the school a better place,” Boyle said. Although Chapin is historically an all-girls school, its mission statement is accepting of all gender identities, she explained.
Boyle plans to study math and economics at Princeton University this fall. She has competed in Chapin’s math and science bowl and earned first place in the Mathematical Association of America’s AMC 12 exam. Her passion for math began as a small child, when she discovered what black holes were. At first, she was afraid of them, believing they could swallow up the planet. Since discovering how black holes actually work, Boyle said, “That has changed the way I approach my fears.”
ROY KIM Kim, a Dalton School grad and incoming Princeton University freshman, was surprised about winning the scholarship. “I was just so shocked,” he said. “It was a busy day, and I was getting ready to go home… It was an ecstatic moment. I was in shock. I didn’t know what to say.” But his work in battling food insecurity and food waste in his own backyard illuminates the qualiSCHOLARS continued on p. 4
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