87 Shaker High School Students Named AP Scholars

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio, Oct. 16, 2000 – Eighty-seven Shaker Heights High School students have been named Advanced Placement (AP) Scholars by the College Board in recognition of their scores on several college-level AP Examinations administered in May 2000.

These students represent 31 percent of the 275 Shaker students who took AP exams last May. Nationwide, about 13 percent of the more then 700,000 students who took these tests performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.

Shaker students took a total of 638 tests. Ninety percent of the Shaker scores were 3 or higher. A score of 3 or higher on an AP exam generally qualifies a student for college credit in that subject. While most of the Shaker students who took the May 2000 AP exams did qualify for college credit, many did not take a sufficient number of the tests to qualify for the AP Scholar honors.

Remarkably, of the 24 Shaker students who took the highest-level AP calculus exam, 23 students earned a score of 5 and one earned a score of 4. Five is the highest score attainable on AP exams.

Their teacher, Thomas Patrick, said of his students’ scores, “ It floored me. I knew I had a lot of sharp kids in there, but this is amazing. This is the best my students have ever done and these are the best results I can recall at Shaker.” Patrick is in his thirty-second year of teaching at Shaker and his fifteenth year of teaching AP calculus.

Six Shaker students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on all AP exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students are: Melissa Currivan (now studying at the University of Chicago), Aaron Dibner-Dunlap (Northwestern University), Whitney Karfeld (Princeton University), Amit Ranade (Stanford University), Devaushi Singham (Princeton University), and Jonathan Slain (University of North Carolina).

Thirty-seven Shaker students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of those exams. These students are: Dana Beck, Alder Brannin, Stephanie Chin, Jeremy Cohen, Elizabeth Cooperman, Stephen Courtright, Melissa Currivan, Aaron Dibner-Dunlap, Beth Dolinsky, Cameron Eckstein, Jacob Feitler, Austin Frank, Sarah Frisof, Jennifer Hill, Jeremy Hsu, Karen Jenks, Whitney Karfeld, Yang Yang Li, Elisabeth Maguda, James McFarlane, Adam Moore, Jonathan Munetz, Molly Nackley, Joy Nims, Christine Powers, Amit Ranade, Greg Rawson, Tory Ribar, Sarah Ronis, Lisa Samols, Devaushi Singham, Jonathan Slain, Elizabeth Turnell, Aaron Viny, Yanna Weisberg, Yue Yang and Jonathan Youngner.

Twenty-three Shaker students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade 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: Adam Abelson, Hyo Bae, Caitlin Bell, Alexander Cole, Anna Daley, Tara Davis, James Dunn, Amy Fuller, Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Tara Grove, Chris Hemmelgarn, John Jackson, Jason Kirschenbaum, Alexander Kolb, Ryan Livingston, Jonathan Malangoni, Leah Marshall, Katie O’ Brien, Kathryn O’ Connor, Allison Pollock, Suzanne Schwarz, Gordon Scott and Philip Wallach.

Twenty-seven Shaker students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of three or higher. The AP Scholars are: Andrea Abramoff, Eric Anderson, Matthew Baringer, Meghan Dubyak, Sarah Falender, Justin Fuller, Francis Fungsang, Sarah Glauser, Aaron Greenspan, Joanna Grossman, Delven Harris, Chloe Hill, Ezekiel Hill, Brian Immerman, Charlotte Jacobs, Meredith Jones, John Lynch, John Martin, Sarah Morgenstern, Paul Nadeau, Anne Nuechterlein, Joshua Polster, Chris Ryder, Jaime Streem, Elizabeth Swary, Meghan Whitehouse, and Joshua Wiznitzer.

Shaker Heights High School offers Advanced Placement classes in art; computer science; English; foreign languages, including French, German, Latin, and Spanish; math, including calculus and statistics; science, including chemistry, environmental science, and physics; social studies, including American government, economics, modern European history, psychology and U. S. history. These are college-level classes that prepare students for the annual AP exams, through which they can earn college credit.

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