October 23, 2007—One hundred and thirty-one Shaker Heights High School students and June 2007 graduates have been named AP Scholars by The College Board in recognition of their outstanding performance on national Advanced Placement (AP) examinations administered through May 2007. This represents 34 percent of the Shaker students who took AP exams; nationally, about 18 percent of the more than one million high school students who took AP exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in high school and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP exams. The exams are graded on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest, and most U.S. colleges will grant credit or upper-level placement for a grade of 3 or higher. In 2007, thirty-four AP exams were offered by The College Board in a wide variety of subject areas.

Shaker Heights High School offers 28 Advanced Placement courses in 18 subject areas: art; computer science; English; foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, and Latin; math, including calculus and statistics; science, including chemistry, biology, environmental science, and physics; and social studies, including American government, economics, modern European history, psychology, and U.S. history. In any given year, approximately one-third of Shaker sophomores, juniors, and seniors are enrolled in at least one AP course. In May 2007, 380 Shaker students took 820 AP examinations, with 79 percent earning a score of 3 or higher.

The students honored graduated in June 2007 unless otherwise noted.

Fifty-seven students were named AP Scholars by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. They are Mark Axel, Lydia Benish, Brianna Blackwood-Mallory (’08), Hartley Brody (’08), Edward Cahill (’08), Alyssa Cohen (’08), Michael Cowett (’09), Erin Cox, Jeremy Farinetti, Anastasia Frank, Bridget Frantz, Anne Gabriel (’08), Naomi Garner, Ethan Gates (’08), Alison Goodman (’08), Alex Grossman-McKee (’08), Tessa Heller, Jaclyn Inglis ('08), Courtney Kinter, Emily Krassen, Blair Kurit, Jenny Kutik, Eileen Lalley, Hannah Lawrence (’08), Christopher Mawhorter (’08), Kelly McCord, Kevin McDonald, Sam Miller ('08), Myron Nelson, Lena Newman (’08), Margaret O’Connor (’08), Rachel Oscar, Charles Pappas, Samhita Pennathur, Abigail Pink (’08), Tarresha Poindexter, Susanna Pretzer (’08), Elizabeth Quigley, Scott Rownd (’08), Allison Scharfstein (’08), Peter Schiraldi (’08), Julie Seger, Molly Shlaes (’08), Kathryn Spielman (’08), Laura Stern, Jack Sutorius (’08), Jefferson Triozzi (’08), James Urban (’08), Ezekiel Waletzky, Christina Wang (’08), Ben Weinberger, Lauren Weinberger, Cyril Wesner, Patrick White (’08), Cameron Wilk (’08), Jean Williams, Julia Wilson (’08), and Stephen Zawodzinski.

Twenty-two students qualified as AP Scholars with Honor by earning an average of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are: David Barach (’08), Jared Beachy (’08), Jordan Blumenthal, Catherine Campbell-Morrison, Cecilia Culp, Katy Fishman, Zoe Gordon, Everett Hoffman, Elizabeth Kannard, Nathan Langhinrichs (’08), Grace Levin, Florian Mockel (’08), Alex Mok, Sarah Neubert, Melissa Nezamzadeh, Margaret O’Halloran (’08), Jeremy Polster, Carolyn Reese, Luke Shahinian, Jenna Stahl, Cyrus Taylor (’08), and Allison Tillman.

Fifty-one students qualified as AP Scholars with Distinction by earning an average of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on at least five exams. They are Aaron Abelson, Mark Antal, Suzanne Arian, Steven Aviram, Nathan Bixenstine, Michael Bohl, Julia Buchheim, Christopher Butler, Natalia Cabrera (’08), Thomas Chokel, David Coon, Allen Eckhouse, Aaron Fallon, Stephanie Goldfarb, Audrey Gyurgyik, Michael Hornick, Michael Karim, Alena Kelly, Dongjoo Kim (’08), Natalie King, Michael Kooser, Niranjan Kumar, Anthony Lanese, Hyunho Lee, Philip Marcotty, Katherine Marshall, Christin Martahus, Courtney McClelland, Halle Minshall, Sonia Misra, Thomas Neil (’08), Connor Nobert, Alison O’Connor (’08), Kathryn Rohacz, Gregory Seidner, Raffi Setrakian, Adam Shands, Anne Sivertson, Daniel Snider, Carolyn Stange, Daniel Strassfeld (’08), Sarah Sy, John Thomas, Meghan Thompson, Hannah T’Kindt, Max Vener, Rebekah Wadsworth, Carter Wang, Sarah Weiss, Andrew Wiedemann, and Conor Willis.

In addition to being designated AP Scholars with Distinction, sixteen Shaker students were named National AP Scholars. This designation is reserved for students earning an average grade of 4 or higher on all AP exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on at least eight exams. They are Aaron Abelson, Steven Aviram, Nathan Bixenstine, Michael Bohl, Christopher Butler, Thomas Chokel, Aaron Fallon, Stephanie Goldfarb, Alena Kelly, Niranjan Kumar, Anthony Lanese, Hyunho Lee, Carolyn Stange, John Thomas, Carter Wang, and Sarah Weiss.

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