2024-2025 Birmingham Scholars
Twenty seniors have been named Birmingham Scholars for the 2024-2025 school year and were officially recognized at a banquet held in their honor on April 24, 2025. These students were selected based on their SAT and ACT scores, class ranking, and good moral character in addition to being in the top ten percent of their class. The students also completed an autobiography and electronic personal interview with three judges representing superintendents from Dallas, Collin and Rockwall counties. Additionally, in order to qualify for the scholarship, students must have received all of their grades from a Wylie ISD high school.
The scholarship recipients from Wylie High School are:
Kaysan Amin
Guneet Dhaliwal
Rudra Diyora
Brayden Knight
Sabrina Le
Betemariam Mesfin
Bahareh Pirouzian
Brianna Reinoso
Nathan Revor
Andrew Varghese
The Birmingham Scholars from Wylie East are:
Sofia Blanco Barajas
Ella Denny
Kimberly Kincaid
Allison Koonce
Loi Le
Caden Ly
Ngoc Nguyen
Luke Reinert
Magnolia Volpi
Takumi Yasueda
The Miss Pearl Birmingham Scholarship fund was established in 1947 by T.F. Birmingham to comply with a request by his sister, Pearl, who died in 1946. In her will, she left 1,000 shares of common stock in Standard Oil Company of Ohio to support an annual scholarship for an outstanding Wylie graduate. Today the fund supports twenty scholarships valued from $5,000 to $7,500.
Pictured are, Back row (l to r): Brayden Knight, Rudra Diyora, Kaysan Amin, Andrew Varghese, Kimberly Kincaid, Ella Denny, Guneet Dhaliwal, Luke Reinert, Takumi Yasueda, Caden Ly. Front row (l to r): Nathan Revor, Sabrina Le, Sofia Blanco Barajas, Magnolia Volpi, Allison Koonce, Betemariam Mesfin, Bahareh Pirouzian, Ngoc Nguyen, Brianna Reinoso, Loi Le.