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Desert Academy’s 27-member senior class has an impressive range of college opportunities for the coming fall.

The Class of 2013 was admitted to 71 different colleges and universities across the country, including Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Carleton, Carnegie-Mellon, Colorado College, Dartmouth, George Washington, Middlebury, Northeastern, New Mexico Tech, NYU, Oberlin, Occidental, Reed, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, the University of Chicago, Vassar, Washington University in St. Louis, Wesleyan, and Williams.

Click here to see a complete listing of all the colleges to which the Class of 2013 was admitted.

Desert Academy senior Lillian Tiarks has been named a 2013 National Merit Scholarship winner. She is one of 2,500 students from across the country to be so honored.

This fall Lillian will enroll in the Honors Program at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is the recipient of a full-tuition Northeastern National Hispanic Recognition Program scholarship. She is a high honor roll student at Desert Academy, where she is a candidate for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. During the current academic year, she also served as co-captain of the volleyball team, treasurer of the student council, student organizer of the school’s “Creativity, Action and Service Program,” and was recognized as “Theater Student of the Year.”

1.5 million high-school juniors took the Preliminary SAT Test in October 2011, which qualified them for consideration in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program. 15,000 of those juniors became National Merit finalists, from whom the scholarship winners were selected, based on their academic record, leadership potential, community activities, standardized test scores, written essays, and school recommendations.