School: Gabriel is a senior at Plum Senior High School.
Family: Parents, Waihar and Laptak Chan; and siblings, Joycelyn, 14, and Jonathan, 19
Noteworthy: Gabriel has been named a commended student in the 2002 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended students have placed in the top 5 percent of more than 1 million students who entered the 2002 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Quote: "We are very proud of him," said Waihar Chan.