Sachem East's Top 10 Students

Sachem Patch wishes to congratulate the top 10 graduating seniors at Sachem High School East. There are 600-plus students in East's Class of 2010.

Here's a look at the top 10 brightest minds Sachem East has to offer:

1. Brittany Lattanza

School: Georgetown University  

Career: History/Pre-Law 

Quote: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who 

mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."  - Dr. Seuss  

2. Michael Dougherty

School: Cornell University

Career: Undecided 

Quote: "No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."  - Charles Steinmetz 

3. Michael Zella

School: SUNY Binghamton

Career: Business/computer science

Quote: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau

4. James Vierling

School: SUNY Binghamton

Career: Biomedical Engineering

Quote: "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

5. Marissa MacAneney

School: SUNY Binghamton

Career: Biology/Pre-med

Quote: "All human beings should try and learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." - James Turner

6. Benjamin Rasa

School: Stony Brook University

Career: Pastor

Quote: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

7. Brittany Dippel

School: United States Air Force Academy

Career: Jet pilot

Quote: "Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill

8. Marc Pomeroy

School: Virginia Tech

Career: Physicist or Engineer

Quote: "The climb to perfection is wrought with the goals that we set, and traced with footprints of our accomplishments." - Gregory S. Pomeroy Jr.

9. Aditya Ramesh

School: Cornell University

Career: Doctor/research scientist

Quote: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

10. Haseeb Shahid

School: University of Pittsburgh

Career: Engineering

Quote: "Nothing in this world worth having comes easy." - Dr. Bob Kelso

Click the PDF on the right side to see where the rest of the graduating seniors from Sachem East are going to college.

Here's the top 10 students from Sachem North.