<p>It is not often that music students are honored for something other than their musical talents. Here are highlights from an article regarding an SC woman enrolled in the Thornton School.</p>
<p>Each year Glamour Magazine selects "The Top Ten College Women". In 2008 it was announced that Pauline Yang, an extremely gifted pianist, was named one of the ten. Pauline is studying piano at the SC Thornton School of Music. She soloed at Carnegie Hall at 11 years of age.</p>
<p>In her junior year of high school, Yang led her school's award winning model U.N. program. A New Jersey native, she later interned for Senator Hillary Clinton and is an ambassador for Music in Me, a nonprofit program that brings music to children in the Midddle East. Last summer she went to Taiwan to work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on using classical music to bridge cultural divides.</p>
<p>Miss Yang hopes to participate in the National Chopin Piano Competition in 2010.</p>