Two Perfect Papers. Eleven Gold Medals. Twenty-two students distinguished in a global field of more than 100,000 drawn from the fifty American states and twenty-six sovereign nations — the strongest result in this program’s record of participation in the National Latin Exam.
Victoria Gyuyeon Park has been awarded the Summa Cum Laude — the highest distinction of the Keely Lake Memorial Translation Exam, in a field of 183 participants from 32 elite institutions worldwide.
Two students entered. Both placed. Olivia Hwang and Min Yang each earned the Caesar Award across separate national divisions — a perfect result in the most philologically rigorous Latin competition in North America.
Jackson Haram Park and Jay Hoo Yoo were named Book Award Winners (2nd Place) in the Secondary Division — a blind-graded competition in which awards are given sparingly and the Latin on the page speaks for itself.
Nine of twelve placing students earned Gold Medals, among them a new generation of names appearing in this record for the first time.
Eight Emerson Latin students placed across all three categories. Jonghyun Seo earned the Gold Medal in the Advanced division.
Sean Seungwoo Lee and Jason Tae each placed first at the 2025 NJCL Convention at Miami University — two students, two countries, one result. The program’s first first-place convention finishers since William Kim in 2021.
Charles Cho (9th grade), Gene Yang (12th grade), and Susie Yang (Columbia University, freshman) were inducted into the National Latin Honor Society for 2025.
Five Emerson Latin students placed. Victoria Gyuyeon Park placed second in the only competition in this record requiring original poems or short stories written in Latin.
Five Emerson Latin students placed in a blind-graded field of 167 submissions from 27 schools. Gene Yang placed first.
Every Emerson Latin student who sat the examination placed — twenty-nine students, twenty-nine medals, twenty-two of them Gold.
Twenty-six Emerson Latin students placed — eleven Gold, ten Silver, five Bronze — across a field of more than 100,000.
Thirteen Emerson Latin students placed across Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice categories in a field of 2,815 participants worldwide.
Gio Hyung achieved a Perfect Paper for the second consecutive year.
Five Emerson Latin students placed against classical schools and leading public academies. Two tied for first place.
Jonghyun Seo achieved a Perfect Paper in a field of more than 100,000 across twenty-six countries. Thirteen Gold Medals in all.
Six Emerson Latin students were named among the Top Five Scorers in the world.
Seventeen Emerson Latin students placed — six Gold, seven Silver, four Bronze.
Two Emerson Latin students achieved Perfect Papers across a field of more than six thousand.
Five Emerson students earned the Augustus Award (Gold) and two the Caesar Award (Silver).
Nineteen Gold Medals among thirty placing students.
Eleven Gold Medals among twenty-seven placing students, across a field of more than 100,000.
Three Emerson students placed: Alyssa Han (Second Place), Jinmin Lee (Third Place), and Ariane Lee (Finalist).
Three Emerson students were shortlisted by Oxford academics in Philosophy, Psychology, and the Junior Prize.
Victoria Park won first prize for “The Dionysus Kylix” — an ekphrasis on Exekias’s sixth-century Athenian masterwork.
Nine Gold Medals among eleven placing students.
Esther Lee has been inducted into the National Latin Honor Society for the 2022 academic year.
Victoria Park earned Summa Cum Laude in Poetry; William Kim earned Magna Cum Laude in the Short Story category for Run.
Three Emerson Latin students achieved Perfect Papers in a field of more than six thousand.
Eleven Gold Medals, two Silver, two Bronze.
Nine Emerson Latin students earned Gold Medals; twenty-two placed in all.
Leo Cho has been inducted into the National Latin Honor Society for the 2021 academic year.
Fourteen Emerson Latin students placed — five earning Gold Medals, four Silver, five Bronze.
Two Emerson Latin students placed second and third — the only winners from Korea in a North American field.
William Kim placed first in four events: Reading, Vocabulary, Greek Derivatives, and the Academic Heptathlon.
Kelly Sung placed first in South Korea and earned an Honorable Mention at the international olympiad in Slovenia.
Four Emerson Latin students achieved perfect papers among more than 88,000 sitting worldwide.
One Emerson Latin student placed first in the world. Eleven received Gold Medals.
Two students achieved perfect scores; twelve received Gold Medals.
Leo Cho has been inducted into the National Latin Honor Society for the 2021 academic year.
Seven students earned Gold Medals; two earned Bronze.