2023

2023


U.S. & U.K. University Acceptance

In 2023, more than 30 students from Meritus Academy have been accepted into top U.S. and U.K. universities. Below is the admission for some of the students:

Lucyya Ni
Harvard Medical School

Daniel Lian
Harvard University

Evan Lu
MIT

Martin Thaw
UPenn (M&T), Caltech

Catherine Zhang
UPenn (Wharton)

Connor Wong
University of Cambridge, UPenn

Emma Yao
UPenn

Ashley Mo
Caltech

Emily Xu
Caltech

Kaixin Wang
Duke University, UC Berkeley

Frank Zhang
Columbia University, University of Cambridge

Gilbert Yang
Columbia University

Alex Wang
Brown University

Emily Xie
Washington University in St. Louis, UC San Diego

Jia Jia He
Northwestern University, UC Berkeley

Jocelyn Liu
UC Berkeley

Leo Zhuang
Carnegie Mellong University

Michelle Xu
Vanderbilt University

Fiona Bian
University of Michigan

Caroline Ding
University of Michigan

Corey Gui
University of Michigan

Jonathan Ni
Manhattan School of Music

Christopher Zhao
University of Cambridge

William Deng
University of Cambridge

Mathematics

1) International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)

In 2023, one student from Olympiads School had been selected for the 6-member national team to represent Canada in the IMO held in Chiba, Japan. Kaixin Wang received a silver medal.

 

2) Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO)

In 2023, three students from Olympiad School were in the top eight and received Honorable Mentions. They were Emily Ma and Kaixin Wang.

 

3) Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiads (APMO)

In the 2023 APMO, a total of ten students from Canada received various honours and three students were from Olympiads School. They were:

  • Bronze: Xuezhi Wang, Jason Zhang
  • Honorable Mention: Kaixin Wang

 

4) Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC)

In 2022, many students from Olympiads School achieved excellent results in the COMC. The following is the student award list:

Canadian Champions

  • Silver Award: Hongyi Huang, Joshua Wang
  • Honour Roll: William Dai, Xuezhi Wang

Best in Canadian Division

Grade 12 or Cégep

  • Bronze Award: Leo Zhuang
  • Honour Roll: Yizhou Wang and Haonan Zhao

Grade 11

  • Bronze Award: Jason Zhang
  • Honour Roll: William Dai and Xuezhi Wang

Grade 10

  • Gold Award: Hongyi Huang and Joshua Wang

Grade 9

  • Gold Award: Jiaqi Liu

About 40 students from Olympiads School have received National or Provincial Honorable Mentions for their excellent performance. They have qualified for CMO, CJMO, the Repêchage, or EGMO.

 

5) European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO)

In 2023, Olympiads School student Emma Tang was selected for the national team, which consisted of four students.

 

6) United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO)

In 2023 USAMO, William Dai from Olympiads School won the Bronze Award and Yizhouo Wang got the Honorable Mention.

 

7) United States of America Junior Mathematical Olympiad USA(J)MO

In 2023 USA(J)MO, Greta Qu from Olympiads School has won the Honorable mention.

 

8) American Mathematics Competition AMC 8 and AMC 10/12

  • 44 students from Olympiads School qualified for the AIME through AMC 12A;
  • 47 students from Olympiads School qualified for the AIME through AMC 12B;
  • 28 students from Olympiads School qualified for the AIME through AMC 10A;
  • 24 students from Olympiads School qualified for the AIME through AMC 10B;
  • More than 20 students received Honorable Mentions from AMC 8.

 

9) Euclid Contest

  • Group I (Scores 97-96): Emily Ma
  • Group II (Scores 95-91): Xiaoxiang Dong, Evan Lu, Xuezhi Wang, Sabrina Yu, Jinghe Zhang, Jeffery Zhang
  • Group III (Scores 90-88): Ethan Huang, Charles Ran, Kiran Sun, Yifan Tang, Kaixin Wang, Jimmy Wu, Mars Xiang, Sihan Xu, Daniel Ye, Haonan Zhao, William Zhou

 

10) Canadian Mathematics Competition (Waterloo)

Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest (CSMC)

  • Group I (Scores 60-65): Evan Lu
  • Group II (Scores 54-51): William Dai, Benjamin Dong, Charles Ran, Xuezhi  Wang, Le Han Zhu
  • Group III (Scores 50-46): Siqi Chen, Jeremy Dai, Zihan Ding, Kevin Guo, Julie Lavigne, Emily Qingle Liu, John Liu, Lehang Liu, Emily Ma, Maria Mihai, Maggie Pang, Ancheng Wang, Jimmy Wu, Mars Xiang, Alex Xu, Brian Yan, Richard Zhang.

 

Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest (CIMC)

  • Group II (Scores 58-56): Jeffrey Chen
  • Group III (Scores 55-52): Henry Liu, Nicholas Ng, Daria Picu, Eric Sandels, Andy Song, Andrew Zheng

 

Pascal, Cayley, Fermat

Aproximately 9 students from Olympiads School received various honour rolls in the Grade 9 Pascal contest.

  • Group I (Scores 150-146): Zheng Wang
  • Group II (Scores 145-143): Bailey Min, Angela Sun, Justin Wei, Andy Zhang, Kenny Zhang
  • Group III (Scores 142-140): Yiheng Du, Michael Sun, Luke Yan

 

Approximately 15 students from Olympiads School received various honour rolls in the Grade 10 Cayley contest.

  • Group I (Scores 150-143): Terrence Fu, Brandon Lam, Sean Lee, Eric Ning, Lei Zhang
  • Group II (Scores 142-140): Andrew Ma, Nicholas Ng, Parth Sheth, Jason Yu
  • Group III (Scores 139-138): Jason Kim, Jacob Lu, Daniel Pu, Elaine Qian, Lawrence Wang, Junwen Zheng

 

Approximately 10 students from Olympiads School received various honour rolls in the Grade 11 Fermat contest.

  • Group I (Scores 150-146): William Dai
  • Group II (Scores 145-139): Emily Ma, Jeffrey Zhang, Jinghe Zhang
  • Group III (Scores 138-136): Irena Chen, Maria Mihai, Alexander Shen, William Tian, Xuezhi Wang, Lehan Zhu

 

Fryer, Galois, Hypatia

Approximately 27 students from Olympiads School received various honour rolls in the Grade 9 Fryer contest.

  • Group I (Scores 40-39): Vivienne Liao, Isaac Lu, Ethan Niu, Tom Sharma, Alexander Zhang, Sophie Zhang
  • Group II (Scores 38-36): Ryan He, Jinrui Huang, Gordon Li, Tony Lu, James Qiu, Brianna Si, Guanlin Zhou
  • Group III (Scores 35-35) :Ian Chen, Jerry Chen, Ethan Gao, Matthew Gao, Emily Guo, Jiayue Han, Jessica Jung, Michael Li, Eric Ma, Michael Sun, Kaylyn Zhang, Ronan Zhong, Phoebe Zhu, Zichen Zuo

 

Approximately 27 students from Olympiads School received various honour rolls in the Grade 10 Galois contest.

  • Group I (Scores 39-38) :Mingyang Hu, Andrew Ma, Maria Mihai, Eric Sandels, Patrick Wei
  • Group II (Scores 37-36): Paul Ding, Weifeng Jiang, Sarah Ling, Ji Xu
  • Group III (Scores 35-35): Andy Feng, Derek Gu, William Hu, Ethan Jeon, Angelina Jiang, Arina Kurbatova, Nicholas Ng, Daria Picu, Sowmya Ramanan, Yue Tang, Caden Wang,  Jenny Wei, Rita Xu, Brian Yin, Gu Yu, Tianhao Yu, Vincent Zheng, Yuntao Zhou

 

Approximately 30 students from Olympiads School received various honour rolls in the Grade 11 Hypatia contest.

  • Group I (Scores 40-40): Irena Chen, Caroline Cheng, William Dai, Xinyun Du, Julie Lavigne, Kevin Liang, Emily Ma, Kiran Sun, Yifan Tang, Xuezhi Wang, Sihan Xu, Jeffery Zhang, Jinghe Zhang, Lehan Zhu
  • Group II (Scores 39-38): Andrew Hua, Jiaqi Liu, Grace Pu, Colin Wang, Justin Wei, Daniel Ye, Aaron Yu
  • Group III (Scores 37-36): Benjamin Dong, Louis Guo, Peilin He, Eric Ning,  Alexander Shen, Sophia Wang, Patrick Wei, Sabrina Yu, Legolas Zhang

 

11) Beaver Computing Challenge – Mathematics Contests – CEMC

  • G5-6: Over 46/60: 23 students. Full mark 60/60: 8 students
  • G7-8: Over 78/90: 36 students. Full mark 90/90: 15 students
  • G9-10: Over 78/90: 38 students. Full mark 90/ 90: 17 students

Debate

National and Provincial Debate Tournaments

  • In 2023, two students from Meritus Academy, Randy Chang and Maria Xu, qualified for the 5-member national team, and 2 students, Rally Lin and Hao Ni, qualified for the 7-member national reserve team.
  • Two of our students made the 23/24 Team Canada roster: Julian Zhang and Jin Zhou

 

1) 2023 Ontario Provincial Championships

  • Champions: Randy Chang and Justin Zhou
  • 2nd Team: Hao Ni
  • 3rd Team: Jason Fu and Julian Zhang
  • 4th Team: Edward Yang and Ethan Chiang
  • Top Speaker: Hao Ni
  • 2nd Speaker: Jason Fu
  • 4th Speaker: Randy Chang
  • 4th Speaker: Julian Zhang
  • 6th Speaker: Ethan Chiang
  • 8th Speaker: Justin Zhou
  • 9th Speaker: Edward Yang

 

   2023 Ontario Jr. Provincial Championships

  • Champion: Emma Tian
  • Top Speaker: Emma Tian
  • 8th Speaker: Hannah Liu

 

2) 2023 CSDF Senior National Championship

  • Champions: Randy Chang and Justin Zhou
  • Quarterfinalists: Julian Zhang and Jason Fu
  • 7th Speaker: Randy Chang
  • 9th Speaker: Hao Ni

 

Debate Tournament Held by Various Universities

1) 2022 McGill HS

  • Finalist: Jin Zhou
  • Finalists: Julian Zhang and Jason Fu
  • Semi finalist: Hao Ni
  • Semi finalist: Justin Zhou
  • Top Speaker: Justin Zhou
  • 3rd Speaker: Julian Zhang
  • 4th Speaker: Hao Ni
  • 5th Speaker: Jason Fu
  • 9th Speaker: Jin Zhou

 

2) 2023 Queens National High School Debate Championship

  • Finalists: Julian Zhang
  • Quarterfinalists: Jin Zhou and Kevin Han
  • Quarterfinalists: Hannah Liu
  • Quarterfinalists: Brianna Xiao and Feihan Yu
  • Semi finalist: Stephanie Cheng
  • Top Speaker (tied): Julian Zhang
  • 3rd Speaker: Jin Zhou
  • 7th Speaker: Stephanie Cheng

 

3) 2023 Hart House

  • Champions: Maria Xu and Rally Lin
  • Finalists: Julian Zhang
  • Finalist: Jin Zhou
  • Semi finalist: Grace Liang
  • Quarterfinalist: Hao Ni
  • Quarterfinalist: Lillian Li
  • Quarterfinalist: Jason Fu
  • Jr. Semi finalist: Jade Guo
  • Top Speaker: Julian Zhang
  • 4th Speaker: Grace Liang
  • 6th Speaker: Hao Ni
  • 7th Speaker: Rally Lin
  • 8th Speaker: Jason Fu
  • 9th Speaker: Maria Xu

 

4) 2023 Western HS Championship

  • Finalist: Emily Zhang
  • Quarterfinalists: Stephanie Murariu and Rianna Zhu
  • Quarterfinalist: Grace Zhu
  • 3rd Speaker: Stephanie Murariu
  • 4th Speaker: Rianna Zhu

Physics and Astronomy

1) International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) 

Two students from the Olympiads School won bronze medals at the 2023 IPhO. They were Connor Wong and Wenhe Zhang.

 

2) International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)

Four students from Olympiads School were selected for the 5-member national team and represented Canada in the 2023 IOAA. They were Hongyi Huang, Eleanor Liu, Tian Pu, and Debbie Wang.

  • Silver Medal: Hongyi Huang
  • Bronze Medal: Tian Pu

 

3) Canadian Astronomy Competition (CAAO)

Olympiads School students had the following students achieving outstanding results at the CAAO

  • Gold Medal: Pu Tian
  • Silver Medal: Debbie Wang, Eleanor Liu, Thomas Yang
  • Bronze Medal: Jarmin Weng, William Deng, Hongyi Huang, Wenhe Zhang, Jialu Chen, Adrian Tang
  • Honourable Mention: Prameet Guha, Yourong Li, Soham Chakraborty

 

4) International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO)

Four students from Olympiads School were selected for the 5-member national team to represent Canada in the IAO. They were Lillian Li, Thomas Yang, Prameet Guha, and Jed Lin.

 

 5) Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

Olympiads School students Pu Tian achieved 2nd place, Wenhe Zhang achieved 5th and Connor Wong achieved 8th place in the CAP exam.

Chemistry

Canadian Chemistry Olympiad (CCO)

In 2023, four students from Olympiads School achieved outstanding results in the CCO held in April and were selected to the national training camp. They were Kevin Yao, Gabriel Tian, Sterling Huang, and Irena Chen.

Computer Science

1) International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

Two students from Olympiads School were selected for the 4-member national team to represent Canada in the (online) IOI held in Indonesia.

  • Silver Medal: Warren Bei
  • Bronze Medal: Mars Xiang

 

2) Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO)

In 2023, 21 students were qualified for the CCO. 13 students from Olympiads School were qualified to write the CCO. They achieved outstanding results in the CCO.

Gold Medals:

Five students across Canada received gold medals and two of them were from Olympiads School. They were Warren Bei and Mars Xiang.

Silver Medals:

Eight students across Canada received silver medals and six of them were from Olympiads School. They were Paul Chen, William Dai, Evan Lu, Mike Qi, Daniel Ye, and Evan Zhao.

Bronze Medals:

Nine students across Canada and five of them were from Olympiads School.  They were Colin Cai, Boshi Wang, Xuezhi Wang, Raymond Wu, and Tony Chen Zhu.

Biology

1) International Biology Olympiad (IBO)

Olympiads School student Antian Jiang and Gabriel Tian were selected for the 4-member Canadian national team. Antian Jiang and Gabriel Tian received gold medals.

 

2) Canadian Biology Olympiad (CBO)

Olympiads School students achieved outstanding results in the CBO.

There are three students from the top 4 list, they are: Antian Jiang, Steven Luo, and Gabriel Tian.

 

Gold Medals:

18 students across Canada received gold medals and 10 of them were from Olympiads School. They were Antian Jiang, Gabriel Tian, Irena Chen, Steven Luo, Andrew Fang, Edward Gao, Daniel Lian, Ailsa Shen, Andy Shi, and Michael Wen.

Silver Medals:

38 students across Canada received silver medals and 9 of them were from Olympiads School. They were Jeremy Dai, Yuewen Gao, Leyan He, Sophia Laird, Lukas Li, Harsh Mutupuri, Marissa Shang, Felishia Tian, and Tommy Wu.

Bronze Medals:

45 students across Canada received bronze medals and 7 of them were from Olympiads School. They were Ashley Dong, Kevin Guo, Sterling Huang, Jarmin Weng, Andrew Xing, Jessie Yan, and Frank Ni.

Writing Competitions

1) Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2023 (United Kingdom)

Author of Tomorrow shortlist

  • Selected by a panel of young judges, the winners of the Author of Tomorrow award for a short adventure story by writers aged 21 and under, Luke Zhang《Death&Co》 from Olympiads School has won the award.

 

2) Canada’s Award for Literary Humour (Canada)

Stephen Leacock Student Humorous Short Story Competition 2023

  • Lillian Guo: 《The Eighth Wonder of the World》, Third Place Tie

 

3) Canadian National Student Contests (Canada)

Polar Expressions:

  • Luke Zhang – First place – Grade 8

 

4) Scholastic Writing Awards (USA)

  • Lillian Guo: 《The Light of my Heritage》Personal Essay -Silver Medal
  • Selena Kenedi: 《Subject Sixty-Six》Science Fiction & Fantasy-Silver Medal &《The Tenacious Thorn and the Refined Rose》Flash Fiction- Gold Medal
  • Maggie Jingfei Liu: 《Until All She Hears is Silence》 Short Story- Silver Medal
  • Fiona Shen: 《Sew the Plane》 Flash Fiction -Honorable Mention
  • Luke Zhang: 《 Why Wizards Stink》 Humor- Gold Key, American Voices Nominee
  • Yuebing (Sissi) Zhao: 《Orwellian Puppeteers》 Science Fiction & Fantasy – Gold Medal &《Why You Don’t Deserve the World Cup》 Flash Fiction- Gold Medal

SSAT

Approximately 35 students from the Olympiads School were invited to take the second round of exams by the University of Toronto Schools (UTS)

  • Middle Level:

20 students from Olympiads School received invitations from University of Toronto Schools (UTS) to attend stage two and 9 students scored above 2000 in the SSAT exam.

  • Upper Level:

15 students from Olympiads School received invitations from University of Toronto Schools (UTS) to attend stage two and 10 students scored above 2100 in the SSAT exam.

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