Nicole Elizabeth Villenueve of Los Altos, a senior at Sacred Heart Preparatory School, and Daniel Paul Wenger of Los Altos Hills, a senior at Woodside Priory School, were recently admitted to Yale University’s Class of 2009.

Arica G. Fong of Los Altos was a member of the Bucknell University team that finished 10th out of 411 schools in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition recently. A junior majoring in mathematics, Fong is a graduate of Mountain View High School.

Participants spent six hours in two sittings trying to solve 12 challenging problems in the annual North American mathematics contest for college students.

Daniel Alan Perkins of Los Altos has been named to the fall 2004 dean’s honor list at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, where he is a freshman majoring in bioengineering.