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Academy coed headed to West Point

A senior student from Taiwan's Chinese Military Academy in Fengshan has been accepted by the US Military Academy at West Point to join its class of 2007.

Hung Wan-ting (洪婉婷), 22, will head to West Point later this month for the June 30 reception day, making her the academy's first female student to attend West Point since the academy was founded in 1924 by Sun Yat-sen (孫中山) at Whampoa, Guangdong.

The American Institute in Taiwan, the US' de facto embassy here, conducted a series of tests at the academy in January to recruit for West Point, according to school officials.

Hung was accepted on the basis of her outstanding academic performance, physical and ethical record, a TOEFL score of 547 and a Scholastic Aptitude Test score of 1,140.

Her overall record was among the highest of foreign students accepted by West Point this year, the officials said.

At a news conference held at the academy yesterday, school officials congratulated Hung and urged her to do her best to finish the four-year term at West Point.

Hung said she has yearned to attend a military academy since she was a student at Taipei's Chingmei Girl's High School. She said her dream first came true when she was accepted by the academy four years ago, so she gave up an opportunity to enter one of the nation's top universities.

Hung said she was really in her element after entering the academy and before long she began to plan how to achieve her second dream of attending West Point.

Hung thanked the academy for its training and education over the past four years. She promised that she would try her best to be an outstanding student at West Point so that she could live up to the academy's reputation and fulfill the "Whampoa spirit" of sacrifice, unity and responsibility.
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