Senior Serena Liu, Knowledge

“I’ve been at Parkway West for 18 school years. I would be hard-pressed to find another student who has achieved the high level of academic excellence that [Serena] has. She has taken about as rigorous of a schedule that any student could and has successfully completed that schedule at a very high level. She’s able to handle the intellectual side of classroom expectations and academics very well. It’s just a natural thing for her. In my interactions with her, I would say she’s ambitious but not necessarily competitive. Her high academic marks are not because she’s trying to one-up her peers but [because] she strives to be the best that she can be. The cliché term of ‘learning for the sake of learning’ would apply to her,” College Counselor Chris Lorenz said.