Shaker High School and the North Colonie Central School District are proud to announce the names of our 2026 Honor Graduates. The following students will graduate in the top five percent of their class on Friday, June 26, 2026. In alphabetical order, they are:
Charles Adelstein will be attending Dartmouth College, majoring in English.
Akshaya Annam will be attending Stony Brook University, majoring in Chemistry and Spanish.
Nathaniel Antifaiff will be attending Binghamton University, majoring in History.
Surya Bommasani will be attending Columbia University, majoring in Economics.
Varun Chaganti will be attending Stony Brook University, majoring in Biology.
Sofia Conti will be attending Siena University, majoring in Education.
Anabel Corniel will be attending Brown University, majoring in Environmental Sciences.
Emma Freed will be attending Yale University with a double major in Astrophysics and Global Affairs.
Pieze (Peter) Gong will be attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Electrical Engineering.
Renat Gosmanov will be attending the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Biomedical Science.
Ryan Isernia will be attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Electrical Engineering.
Nawaf Kassem will be attending Siena University, majoring in Communications - Digital Marketing.
Ryan Keegan will be attending Virginia Tech, majoring in Computer Science.
Deepak Kilaparty will be a Biology major at Siena University in the BA/MD program with Albany Medical College.
Hana Kim will be attending Swarthmore College, majoring in Sociology.
Jay Lee will be attending Northwestern University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
Angela Li will be attending Stony Brook Honors College, majoring in Biology.
Everitt Li is attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Industrial and Management Engineering and Business Analytics.
Jonathan Lindhurst will be attending the University at Albany, majoring in Actuarial and Mathematical Sciences.
Cristiano Logrippo will be attending the University of Notre Dame, majoring in Chemistry.
Shayla Mieu will attend Purdue University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
Daniella Morgan will be attending Siena University, majoring in Biology with an 8 year BS/DO with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Mya Sanchez will be attending the University at Albany, majoring in Game Design.
Anya Vedhathiri will be attending the University of California Los Angeles, majoring in Computational and Systems Biology.
Emily Yang will be attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Environmental Engineering.
Eva Zheng will be attending the University at Albany, majoring in Nursing.
Riu Zheng is attending Harvard University, majoring in Chemical and Physical Biology and Film.