Ariana is a senior at Notre Dame High School in Belmont.   She has achieved  a 4.52 weighted GPA and has additionally maintained an internship at the Structural Biology Department at Stanford University working in the laboratory of 2007 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Roger Kornberg.   Ariana has been active in the Persian American Society as a presenter at their sponsored events, has been a student of Persian culture, literature and dance and is accomplished at both piano and viola.

Ariana intends to pursue at degree in biological sciences at Stanford University with the ultimate goal of becoming a surgeon.