December 10, 2004--One hundred and twenty-two Shaker Heights High School students and June 2004 graduates have been named AP Scholars by The College Board in recognition of their outstanding performance on national Advanced Placement (AP) examinations administered in May 2004. About 17 percent of the more than one million high school students in almost 15,000 secondary schools worldwide 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.

Shaker Heights High School offers 17 Advanced Placement courses in art; computer science; English; foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, and Latin; math, including calculus and statistics; science, including chemistry, 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.

The students honored graduated in June 2004 unless otherwise noted.

Forty-two students were named AP Scholars by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. They are Alexander Anderson, Sarah Cannon, Brittany Clair, Caitlin Corrigan, Hannah Corrigan (’05), Anna Dev (’05), Alexander Garner, Jacqueline Gleisser, Michelle Grossman, John Gustafson (’05), Ryan Hacala, Rebecca Heide (’05), Ian Henderson, Travis Henry, Andrew Hopkins, John Hornick (’05), Christopher Inniss (’05), Matthew Knittel, Lauren Kutik, Joseph Lesnefsky, Leah Michelson, Dmitry Mikin, Jessica Miller, David Morgenstern, David Powers, Kathleen Rains, Lee Reis (’05), Charles Reynolds, Emily Rosenberg (’05), Alexandra Russo, Benjamin Sattin (’05), Caroline Smith (’05), Jonathan Strassfeld (’05), Elisa Super, Akansha Thakur, Carolyn Troha (‘05), Jennifer Vanlunteren (’05), Gabriella Vari, Nathaniel Victor (’05), Jing Wang (’05), Eric Weiss, and Jacob Wick.

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: Alexandra Buder-Shapiro, Alexander Campbell, Chinmoy Dev (’05), Colin Duffy (’05), Betty Elee, Stephanie Fungsang, Nicole Goddard, Karelle Hall, Abby Hexter, Julia Hurst, Zachary Juresko, Raghuraj Kasturi, Eric Kramer (’05), Eileen O’Neill, Lauren Robinson, David Schwarz, Matthew Seidner, William Seitz, Christina Senagore, Julia Sivertson (’05), Jonathan Stange, and Colleen Williams.

Fifty-eight 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, Nicholas Agich, Deborah Beim, Paul Bixenstine, Rebecca Bonthius, Leslie Brandon, Jordan Bray, Christopher Chin, Hallie Dietsch, Jonathan Distad, Laura Falender, Mitchell Frank, Renee Frantz, Samuel Freilich, David Frisof (’05), Adam Gall, Kathryn Glass, Marjorie Glick, Clifford Harding, Owen Hearey, Brett Heeger, Arlo Hill, Anna Hutt, Timothy Israel, William Issa, Daniel Kanter (’05), Michael Koler, Yutaro Komuro, Amanda Kovach, Michael Kowen, Caroline Krassen, Andrea Kutik, Sara Langhinrichs, Catherine Lee, Hyun Young Lee, Erika Leibovitch, Zachary Lerner, Adam Margolius (’05), Brian Math, Matthew O’Bryon, Emily Ozan, Vince Pavlish, Eliana Penzner, Shira Polster, David Pretzer, Cody Rose, Kyan Safavi, Kelly Schaefer, Harry Schnur, Alix Schrager, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Ashali Singham, Jennifer Stern, Jussi Tahtinen, Mark Vieyra, Alex Wang (’05), Nadav Weinberg, and William Wemer.

In addition to being designated AP Scholars with Distinction, Deborah Beim, Paul Bixenstine, Christopher Chin, Samuel Freilich, Owen Hearey, Arlo Hill, Yutaro Komuro, Michael Kowen, Andrea Kutik, Vince Pavlish, Shira Polster, David Pretzer, Kelly Schaefer, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Ashali Singham, and Jussi Tahtinen were named AP National 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. Shaker students in this category were accepted at such colleges as Boston University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard-Radcliffe College, M.I.T., New York University, Northwestern University, Rice University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

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