Iolani Alumni

Seventeen seniors in the Class of 2008 have been honored as Valedictorians for the exemplary academic record over the course of the last four years. Together their cumulative GPA was 4.30.

The 2008 Iolani Valedictorians:
• Signe Chambers (Washington University - St. Louis)
• Alanna Cooney (Washington University - St. Louis)
• Aaron Fong (Pomona)
• Jonathon Fung (UH - Regents Scholar)
• Ryan Gomoto (USC)
• Allison Hasegawa (Colorado College)
• Kimberlee Hashiba (Northwestern)
• Pamela Ho (USC)
• Kate Ikehara (USC)
• David Jaress (University of Chicago)
• Scott Kaneshiro (Harvard)
• Leslie Kim (Harvard)
• Clay Ozaki-Train (Arizona State)
• Christine Tamaru (Whitman College)
• Kyla Teramoto (Santa Clara)
• Marisa Wang (UPenn)
• Zhuangjun Wang (USC)

Why so many? To select their valedictorians, Iolani determines the lowest possible GPA of the students who only received As throughout their high school career (regardless of Honors or AP classes) and sets that as a baseline. All students with cumulative GPAs above the baseline are considered valedictorians.

(In theory, the baseline GPA could be set at 4.0 if a given student took no Honors or AP courses but earned all-As. In that case, all students with GPAs above 4.0, even those who didn’t get all As, but took Honors and AP courses, would be considered valedictorians.)