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The 40 students below represent the top 4% of the applicants of the 2020 edition.
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High Schools
1. Ke Nicole Hu
St Paul's School (NH). $150
2. Silvia Rivet
Baton Rouge Magnet High School (LA). $50
3. Emery Doga
Ascension Episcopal School (LA). TV-5 Monde
4. Jacob LeBlanc
Lafayette High School (LA)
5. Charlie Roth
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge (LA)
6. Anna Patricia Cutrone
Metairie Park Country Day School (LA)
7. Samarah Bentley
Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans (LA)
8. Amelia Thompson
Westdale Middle School (LA)
9. Diana Mayer
St. Thomas More Catholic High School (LA)
10. Ana-Claire Perkins
Saint Louis Catholic High School (LA)
11. Laura Newman
Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School (NY)
12. Kate Braverman
Scarsdale High School (NY)
13. Maggie Stewart
Lee Magnet High School (LA)
14. Rita Ntipouna
Lafayette High School (LA)
15. Ava Wilkes
Benjamin Franklin High School (LA)
16. Natalia Morris
De La Salle High School (LA)
17. Tanvi Dhaka
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge (LA)
18. Aiden Clouatre
Saint Amant High School (LA)
19. Jeremy Cormier
Lafayette High School (LA)
20. Abhinav Pathak
Glasgow Middle School (LA)
Universities
1. John Sandefur
Tulane University (LA). $250
2. Matigan King
New York University (NY). $100
3. Abby Garver
UAB (AL). TV-5 Monde
4. Carinne Jarvis
Loyola University of Chicago (IL)
5. Ingrid Ren
Brown University (RI)
6. Lauren “Lou” Buhl
Wayne State University (MI)
7. Aazaad Burn
University of Oregon (OR)
8. Valeria Colunga
University of Texas at Austin (TX)
9. Allie Greenwell
Xavier University (OH)
10. Nicolas Garon
Louisiana State University (LA)
11. Samantha R. Zeid
University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
12. Jacob Boudreaux
Ochsner Clinical School (LA)
13. Amy Rodriguez-Peris
University of Connecticut (CT)
14. Heaven L. Moore
University of Louisiana at Lafayette (LA)
15. Simon Paige
Arizona State University (AZ)
16. Yujing Zhang
New York University (NY)
17. Trent Threeton
Southeastern Louisiana University (LA)
18. Hannah Milstead
Louisiana College (LA)
19. Samira Bechara
University of New Orleans (LA)
20. Samar Miled
Duke University (NC)
Alumni
The Editorial Board of the American Journal of French Studies received 50+ essays from adults studying or practicing French in the United States. The selection below is a ranking of the top 10% of the candidates.
1. Susan Anderson
Michigan State University (MI)
2. Daniel Blanchard
Louisiana State University (LA)
3. Pierre Mvuezolo Phoba
Université du Cepromad de Matadi (CD)
4. Marie Sadron
ESCP Business School (FR)
5. Karim Hamzaoui
INU Champollion (FR)
Professors
The Editorial Board of the American Journal of French Studies would like to congratulate Lafayette High School teacher Laure Warner (“Best High School teacher of the year”) and University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant Professor Charly Verstraet (“Best University Professor of the year”) who have both been awarded a monetary prize of $100. In 2020, they have been the two teachers whose students have submitted the highest number of essays in respectively the High School and Undergraduate divisions. We would like to thank them for their relentless efforts to offer their students a viable way to write and be published in French.