412 students honored during Senior Awards Night

A total of 412 students were invited to Milpitas High School's Senior Awards Night to be recognized for one or more awards. 

• A total of 326 students received a Gold Cord for achieving an academic GPA from 10-12 grade of 3.25 unweighted or 3.5 weighted.
• A total of 181 students received a Maroon Cord for volunteering 150 hours or more over the course of their 4 years in high school.
• The school's top 12 students had GPAs ranging from 4.41-4.55
• Valedictorian: 
• Ashley Chen, 4.55 GPA, attending UCLA
• Gold cord, Maroon cord, Golden State Seal, President's Education Award, National Merit Finalist, State Seal of Biliteracy, recipient of multiple scholarships: Milpitas Teacher's Association Scholarship, Danny Lau Memorial Scholarship, Hall of Fame Scholarship, CommonWealth Educational Scholarship
• 3 Salutatorians, 4.52 GPA
• Parshva Jain
• UC San Diego
• Gold cord
• Golden State Seal
• President's Education Award
• Luke Ren
• UC Irvine
• Gold cord
• Maroon Cord
• Golden State Seal
• President's Education Award
• MHS Guidance Scholarship
• Britney Weng - UC Berkeley
• Gold cord
• Maroon cord
• Golden State Seal
• President's Education Award
• State Seal of Biliteracy
• National Honor Society
• California Scholarship Federation
• $73,000 total in scholarships were awarded at Senior Awards Night
• Grants and other outside scholarships are unknown
• 141 students received a President’s Education Award for maintaining a minimum GPA of 3.5 or higher from 10th grade to 12th grade, taking five AP/Honors classes with a B or better in each and scoring “Advanced” on four of four Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium exams
• 295 students received a Golden State Seal for receiving a B+ or higher in an English, Math, and science course in ninth, 10th, or 11th grade and receiving a B or higher in U.S. History and a grade of B or higher in two other courses for ninth, 10th, or 11th grade
• 50 students received the State Seal of Biliteracy award
• 7 National Merit Scholarship Finalist for placing in the top 1% nationally based on their performance on the PSAT taken in their junior year. Finalists are eligible for multiple scholarships
• Based on the Senior Survey through Naviance (approx. 400 responses)
• 133 attending a 2 year community college
• 20 students attending private universities
• 210 students attending public universities
• 11 out of state
• 80 UC
• 119 CSU
• 67 to SJSU
• 24 to UC Davis
• 15 to UC Irvine
• 6 to UCLA
• 7 to UC Berkeley

"This year's award ceremony had a completely different format than last year, this time being more "
personal to the students," said Marissa Canez, Milpitas High School's College and Career Technician. "My favorite part of planning this year's event was recording the seniors' shout outs to staff and family, and a compiled video of all the shout outs was played at the beginning of the ceremony. This was a perfect personal touch and brought a smile to so many faces!"

This year at the 2019 MHS Senior Awards Night, 2 videos were played; one of student shout outs and the other on what Valedictorian means.

Shout Out Video

What does Valedictorian Mean