Sunny Hills High

1801 Warburton Way

Fullerton 92833-2299

(714) 870-3400

* Enrollment: 2,150

* Established: 1958

* Team name: Lancers

* Principal: Loring Davies

* Student president: Eddie Jung

* Valedictorians: Sue Chang, Kent K. Lam, Jane M. Lee, Grace Y. Lin and Erin H. Park

* Famous alumni: Singer Jackson Browne; former major league catcher Gary Carter

* Winning moments: Newsweek magazine’s Top 100 high schools; 29 National Merit scholar semifinalists; Orange County Academic Decathlon award; Future Farmers of America award; Bank of America award finalists Sue Chang, Kent Lam and Eric Liang; boys’ and girls’ basketball playoffs; girls’ soccer playoffs; boys’ cross-country championships; girls’ tennis playoffs; girls’ volleyball playoffs

* Graduation: 8 p.m. June 15 at Fullerton High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Sue Chang of Hacienda Heights

* Achievements: Earned a 4.67 weighted grade-point average; Certificate of Merit for advanced level piano; Lancer Knight medals in biology, French II, English, Advanced Placement chemistry; named National Merit finalist; Advanced Placement scholar; National Honor Society; California Scholarship Federation; Rotary Club Top 100; Prix de France for French 4; Model United Nations outstanding delegate and fund-raising chair; Junior Statesmen of America Southern State special activities director, convention coordinator and chapter president; Student of the Month in biology, French, French II and economics; French club historian; newspaper reporter and page editor; placed first in speech and third overall in the Orange County Academic Decathlon; speaks Mandarin, Chinese and French (“not fluently, even though I can curse very colorfully”)

* Connections: Spent a month learning French at EF Ecole International de Francais; enjoys speech and debate; politics; defending pop music; reading about European history, especially Tudor England; volunteered at Hacienda Heights Public Library; Whittier Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital; worked doing scientific research for the science center at Cal State Fullerton; tutored elementary school children

* Ambitions: Attend Harvard (“will probably freeze on the East Coast”); pursue a career in medicine or medical research (“I am a lab rat”)

* Family: Father is Hamlin; mother is Lee; brother is Richard; extended family in Taiwan and United States (“so many people!”)

* Claims to fame: “I wrote my personal statement for my Harvard application about why I watch ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ Teachers and classmates rolled their eyes, but I wanted to write about something authentically me. [I also] once slept for 15 1/2 hours straight, but have never pulled an all-nighter, even at sleepovers”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 498