US and UK University Acceptance
In 2024, more than 25 students from Olympiads School have been admitted to top universities in the U.S. and the U.K. Below is the admission for some of the students:
Undergraduate Admissions
- Peter Chen: Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Oxford
- Emily Ma: Harvard University, Yale University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Jason Zhang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Gabriel Tian: MIT, Stanford University, Duke University, Cornell University
- Wenhe Zhang: Yale University, University of Cambridge
- Audrey Xu: Stanford University, The University of Chicago, Caltech
- Tian Pu: Princeton University
- Aryah Paliwal: Princeton University
- Eleanor Liu: Princeton University
- Jinghe Zhang: Columbia University
- Sabrina Yu: Columbia University
- John Hu: Duke University
- Jacob Cho: Duke University
- Aahaan Maini: Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA
- Michael Yang: Johns Hopkins University, University of Cambridge
- Jennifer Zuo: Cornell University, UCLA
- Kevin Lee: UCLA
- Edie Huo: Carnegie Mellon University
- Kailey Cheng: Carnegie Mellon University
- Yizhou Wang: Carnegie Mellon University
- Kevin Yao: Carnegie Mellon University
- Andrew Zhang: NYU Stern School of Business
- Lily Dong: University of Illinois Urbana Campaign (UIUC)
Graduate Admissions
- Dave Singh: Stanford University, MIT, Princeton University, Caltech
- Michael Li: Princeton University
1. Mathematics Competitions
1) International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
In 2024, two students from Meritus Academy have been selected for the 6-member national team to represent Canada in the IMO. They are Emily Ma and Jerry Wang.
2) Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO)
In 2024, three students from Meritus Academy were in the top seven and received Silver Award and Honorable Mentions at the CMO. They were Zhekai Shen, Emily Ma and Jerry Wang.
3) Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC)
In 2023, many students from Meritus Academy achieved excellent results in the COMC. Below is the information regarding their awards:
Canadian Champions:
- Bronze Award: Jerry Wang
- Honour Roll: Kiran Sun, Yizhou Wang
Best in Canadian Division
- Grade 12 or Cégep
Silver Award: Jerry Wang
Honour Roll: Emily Ma, Yizhou Wang, Kiran Sun
- Grade 11
Honour Roll: Emma Tang
- Grade 8
Bronze Award: Philip Yu
About 46 students from Meritus Academy have received National or Provincial Honorable Mentions for their excellent performance. They have qualified for CMO, CJMO, the Repêchage, or EGMO.
4) European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO)
In 2024, two students from Meritus Academy, Emily Ma and Emma Tang, were selected for the national team, which consists of four members, to participate in the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad.
5) United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO)
In the 2024 USAMO, Emily MA and Hongyi Huang from Meritus Academy received the Silver Award and Honorable Mention.
6) United States of America Junior Mathematical Olympiad USA(J)MO
In 2024 USA(J)MO, Greta Qu from Meritus Academy received the Honorable mention.
7) Euclid Contest
According to incomplete statistics, the following students from Meritus Academy have achieved excellent results in 2024:
- Group I (Scores 100 – 98):
Felix Yang, Jinghe Zhang
- Group II (Scores 97 – 95):
Hanning Gu, Jiaqi Liu, Xuefeng Liu, Feiyang Xu
- Group III (Scores 94 – 91):
Hanyu Fang, Hongyi Huang, Jialin Liu, Raymond Ouyang, Erika Shan, Xuezhi Wang, Alex Zhu
- Group IV (Scores 90-88):
Curtis Ethan, Jeremy Dai, Mark Hong, Andrew Hua, Yingzhi Liang, Emily Ma, Parth Sheth, Victoria Yu, Selena Zhang, Lehan Zhu
- Group V (Scores 87-85):
Daniel Bondar, Martin Chen, Caroline Cheng, Benjamin Dong, Xinyun Du, Weiyue Gao, Julie Lavigne, Anton Lazarchyk, Christopher Li, Nina Li, Joanna Liang, Ethan Lin, Sarah Ling, Jacob Lu, Aiden Ma, Andrew Ma, Ruyan Meng, Maria Mihai, Daneil Qiu, James Qiu, Sowmya Ramanan, Alexander Zhang, Daniel Zhang, William Zhou
8) Canadian Mathematics Competition (Waterloo)
- Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest (CSMC)
- Group I (Scores 60 – 56):
Emily Ma, Jinghe Zhang, Lehan Zhu
- Group II (Scores 55 – 53):
Xuefeng Liu, Raymond Ouyang, Sam Shashaani, Yifan Tang, Jerry Wang, Marven Wang, Xuezhi Wang
- Group III (Scores 52 – 50):
Yijun Ge, Andrew Hua, Chengrun Jia, Glen Lin, Xing Lyu, Eric Ning, James Qiu, Jason Qiran Sun, Zheng Wang, Lei Zhang, Alex Zhu
- Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest (CIMC)
- Group I (Scores 59 – 57):
Christopher Li, Michael Sun
- Group II (Scores 56 – 55):
Jiaqi Liu, Andrew Ma, Hongyi Huang, Leo Wu, Zhirui Zhang
- Group III (Scores 54 – 52):
Anton Lazarchyk, Zhiwei Cong, Eric Jia, Ryan Li, Peter Lu, Fiona Yan
9) Beaver Computing Challenge – Mathematics Contests – CEMC
- G5-6: Over 46/60: 28 students. Full mark 60/60: 10 students
- G7-8: Over 78/90: 40 students. Full mark 90/90: 16 students
- G9-10: Over 78/90: 45 students. Full mark 90/ 90: 23 students
2. Physics Competitions
1) International Physics Olympiad (IPhO)
This year, the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) was held in Iran. Due to safety concerns, Canada did not organize student participation. However, several students from our school achieved excellent results in the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) competitions.
2) Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)
In April 2024, 6 students from Meritus Academy ranked in the top 20 of the CAP. They are: Tingkai Zhu, Juntian Ye, Daniel Choi, Tian Pu, Parth Sheth, Karmin Weng
3. Astronomy Competitions
1) International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)
In 2024, three students from Meritus Academy were selected to represent Canada: Hongyi Huang, Parth Sheth, and Jarmin Weng. In this competition, Hongyi Huang received a Gold Medal, Parth Sheth received a Bronze Medal, and Jarmin Weng received an Honor Mention.
2) Canadian Astronomy Competition (CAAO)
The following students from Meritus Academy achieved outstanding result
- Gold Medal: Jarmin Weng
- Silver Medal: Hongyi Huang, Eleanor Liu, Tian Pu, Parth Sheth
- Bronze Medal: Thomas Yang, Jialu Chen, Jeffrey Hu, Zhengyi Wu
- Honourable Mention: Jerry Haoze Du, Kayden Zhu
3) International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO)
This year, the event was scheduled to take place in Bangladesh; however, due to a coup and safety concerns, there was no participation from our students.
4. Computer Science Competitions
1) International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
In 2024, Daniel Ye from Meritus Academy was selected for the national team of four to represent Canada at the IOI and the student achieved Honourable mention.
2) Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO)
In 2024, 27 students across Canada were qualified for CCO and 14 of them were from Meritus Academy. They achieved outstanding results in the CCO.
- Gold Medals:
4 students across Canada received gold medals and 1 of them was from Meritus Academy. The student’s name is Daniel Ye.
- Silver Medals:
9 students across Canada received silver medals and 7 of them were from Meritus Academy. They were Warren Bei, Pual Chen, Austin Jiang, Nathan Katov, Marcus Liu, Victor Sarca, Zirui Wang.
- Bronze Medals:
14 students across Canada received bronze medals and 6 of them were from Meritus Academy. They were Colin Cai, Dylan Dai, Simon Shen, Carl Zhang, Legolas Zhang, Ziqi Zhao.
5. Biology Competitions
1) International Biology Olympiad (IBO)
In 2024, two students from our school were selected for the national team of four to represent Canada at the International Biology Olympiad. They are: Lukas Li, Andy Shi.
2) Canadian Biology Olympiad (CBO)
In the National Biology Olympiad held in 2024, students from Meritus Academy achieved remarkable results:
- Gold Medals:
16 students across Canada received gold medals and 8 of them were from Meritus Academy. They Jonathan Liu, Max Mao, Marissa Shang, Abby Wang, Michael Wen, Ada Yao, Tommy Wu, Jasmine Zhai.
- Silver Medals:
41 students across Canada received silver medals and 15 of them were from Meritus Academy. They were Fiona Chan, Emma Chen, Kelin Cheng, Anne Dai, Ashley Dong, Elliot Fang, Helene Li, Kyla Lian, Enzo Shi, Andrew Xing, Emily Guo, Antian Jiang, Lillian Li, Daria Picu, Austin Xu.
- Bronze Medals:
61 students across Canada received bronze medals and 12 of them were from Meritus Academy. They were Kevin Guo, Jed Lin, Alexandra Ma, Jacklyn Saddler, Aaron Yu, Sophia Guo, Amy Lie, Vivian Mao, Alvin Pan, Caleb Xu, Victoria Yu, Oliver Zhu.
6. Debate Competitions (2022-2023)
National Debate Tournaments
Two students from our school have been selected for the national team.
- Julian Zhang
- Jin Zhou
Provincial Debate Tournaments
2024 Ontario Jr. Provincials
- Champions: Annie Zhang and Justin Huang
2024 Harvard WSDC
- Champion: Julian Zhang
- Octofinalist: Jin Zhou
2024 Hart House High Schools
- Champion: Jason Fu and Jessica Yi
- Semifinalist: Sunny Yang
- Semifinalist: Julian Zhang
- Quarterfinalists: Lillian Li and Oriana Zhou
- Jr. Quarterfinalist: Isolde Li
- 4th Speaker: Jason Fu
- 8th Speaker: Julian Zhang
- Top Jr. Speaker: Hannah Liu
2024 Western WSDC
- Champion: Julian Zhang
- Semifinalists: Jason Fu
- Quarterfinalist: Jin Zhou
7. Writing Competitions
1) Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2024 (United Kingdom)
Author of Tomorrow shortlist
- Claire Wang, Awarded for: “Chronicles of Calmaria: Empowering Evolution”
2) Commonwealth Essay Competition (United Kingdom)
- Fiona Shen, Silver Award
3) Scholastic Writing Awards (USA)
- Edward Wang: Gold Key, The Lost Memories
- Miya Lin: Gold Key, “okay”
- Greta Qu: Silver Key, My Perfect Imperfections
- Hunter Liu: Silver Key, What Oliver Found in the Box
- Miya Lin: Silver Key, The Rusted Age
- Miya Lin: Silver Key, The Creature Devices
- Arissa Li: Silver Key, A Demon’s Dream
- Anne Zhang: Honorable Mention, Sweet Market Chaos
- Anne Zhang: Honorable Mention, The Grade 11 Course Selections: A Harrowing Tale of a “Choose Your Own Adventure”
- Ella Ho: Honorable Mention, To Take Responsibility
- Ivy Zhang: Honorable Mention, Best Friend, Forever
- Wendi Cui: Honorable Mention, Watch Us Writhe in Blood-Stained Soil
- Connie Cao: Honorable Mention, The Surprising Power of The Salted Duck Egg
4)Canadian National Student Contests (Canada)
Polar Expressions:
- Edward Wang won first place in the Polar Expressions Summer Youth contest – short story category
- Samuel Yao won an honorable mention in the Polar Expressions Summer Youth contest – short story category
- Lauren Zheng won an honorable mention (of ten) in the Polar Expressions Summer Youth contest –Poetry category
5) Toronto Public Library (Canada)
- Two students from Meritus Academy have had their works published: Sophia Ran and Lillian Guo.
8. Private School Application
SSAT Exams (In 2023/2024 Academic Year)
According to incomplete statistics for the 2023-2024 academic year, a total of 40 students from the Meritus Academy were invited to take the second round of exams by the University of Toronto Schools (UTS)
- Middle Level:
- 25 students from Meritus Academy received invitations from University of Toronto Schools (UTS) to attend stage two and 10 students scored more than 2000 in the SSAT exam.
- Emma Wu achieved a perfect score in the Middle Level exam.
- Upper Level:
15 students from Meritus Academy received invitations from University of Toronto Schools (UTS) to attend stage two and 10 students scored more than 2100 in the SSAT exam.