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101 Shaker Students Named AP Scholars One hundred and one Shaker Heights High School students and June 2003 graduates have been named AP Scholars by The College Board in recognition of their outstanding performance on national Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. AP exams are graded on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest. Most U.S. colleges grant credit or upper-level placement for a grade of 3 or higher. Shaker Heights High School offers 17 Advanced Placement courses. In any given year, approximately one-third of Shaker sophomores, juniors, and seniors are enrolled in at least one AP course. In May 2003, 322 Shaker sophomores, juniors and seniors took 734 AP exams, with 88 percent earning a score of 3 or higher. The students honored graduated in June 2003 unless otherwise noted. Thirty-six students were named AP Scholars by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. They are René Chelune, Christopher Chin (’04), Elissa Courtright, Megan Dibner-Dunlap, Elizabeth Gall, Sarah Greenlee, Elizabeth Habat, Ryan Hacala (’04), Owen Hearey (’04), Brett Heeger (’04), Cassidy Heller, Eric Hulme, Audrey Klein, Ilya Kogan, Justine Konicki, Amanda Kovach (’04), Andrea Kutik (’04), Theresa Lee, Zachary Lerner (’04), Markus Lyytinen, Brian Math (’04), Nathaniel Moore, Vince Pavlish (’04), Carlos Piepenburg, Jenny Ronis, Kyan Safavi (’04), Benjamin Saks, Kelly Schaefer (’04), Christina Senagore (’04), Noah Sudow, Paul Taylor, Armine Thompson, Aaron Toppston, Eric Weiss (’04), Katherine Whitney, and Ben Wolpaw (’05). Thirty 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 exams. They are Luke Antal, Paul Bixenstine (’04), Jeanne Bright, Abigail Cahill, Jonathan Distad (’04), Ann Elliott, Laura Falender (’04), Samuel Freilich (’04), Arlo Hill (’04), Andrew Hopkins (’04), Laura Kangas, Samer Karim, Priyanka Karnik, Yutaro Komuro (’04), Katie Linehan, Adam Margolius (’05), Christopher Martin, Grant Meacham, Jacqueline Meese, Emily Pfaff, David Pretzer (’04), Sara Reichstein, Blair Scott, Selena Simmons-Duffin (’04), Julia Simon, Andrew Smith, Daniel Stephenson, Emily Sy, Mark Vieyra (’04), and Jeffrey Waldman. Thirty-five 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 Benjamin Abelson (’04), William Benish, William Bostwick, Amy Broadbent, Jennifer Broadbent, Edward Ceaser, Edward Cormany, Camilla Cullis, Katherine Dubyak, Amanda Duca, Nathaniel Emery, Gretchen Fuller, Lauren Gardner, Jeffrey Greenwald, Matthew Immerman, Stephanie Jacobs, Benjamin Jones, Phillip Kantor, Irene Kirschenbaum, Merrill Maguda, Noreen Malone, Astrid Matthews, Joseph McFarlane, Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, Michael Nau, Hans Rinderknecht, Rachel Shatten, Ashali Singham (’04), Mark Skerry, Brian Sutorius, Joseph Tartakoff, Mireille Thomas, Sarah Wang, Elise Weinberger, and Suzanne Youngner. Edward Cormany and Gretchen Fuller were named National AP Scholars, a designation 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. Cormany, now a freshman at the University of Michigan, took 11 AP exams, earning an average score of 4.47. Fuller, a student at Harvard University, took 13, with an average of 4.65.
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