It’s all in the family for a Madison Memorial High School senior.
On Wednesday, Sundaram Gunasekaran and his wife, Sujatha, were notified their second child, Suman, 17, was selected as a Presidential Scholar by the U.S. Department of Education
In 2009, the couple’s daughter Suvai received the honor and now is at Harvard University where Suman will join her in the fall.
Staff with the Presidential Scholars Program said having two students from the same family receive the honor is a rare occurrence but were unable to confirm whether it’s happened before.
Suman, one of 141 selected for the honor out of more than 3,300 candidates, said he was proud to be the second in his family to receive the honor and credited his parents’ encouragement