126 Shaker Students Named AP Scholars

November 9, 2005—One hundred and twenty-six Shaker Heights High School students and June 2005 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 2005. About 18 percent of the more than one million high school students in more than 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. In 2005, thirty-four AP exams were offered by The College Board in a wide variety of subject areas.

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 2005 unless otherwise noted.

Forty-six students were named AP Scholars by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. They are Michael Abramczyk (’06), Ian Bardenstein (’06), Angela Barnard, Sarah Bell, Archer Blood, Liam Brett-Eiger, Colin Duffy, Evan Fallon, William Feldman (’06), Amy Freedman, Jonathan Gertman, Emily Grannis (’06), Justin Greenlee, Michael Greksa (’06), Sarah Gutin, Jeffrey Harris (’06), Jason Immerman (’06), Charles Inniss, Michael Kaufman (’06), Sarah Ledford (’06), Claudia Lerner, Ann Lesnefsky (’06), Katherine Lesueur, Ryan McDonough, Anne Morrison, Katharine O’Gorman (’06), Sydney Pickett, Jennifer Piepenburg, Catherine Powell, Jackson Richards (’06), Benjamin Schnur (’06), Avery Sears, Jessica Shick, Rebecca Siegel, Paul Skerry (’06), Rachel Slosberg, Sara Smith, Dara Sobisch, Katherine Sommers (’06), Alaina Sullivan (’06), Philip Thomas, Allison Vitkus (’06), Jessica Walker, Ashley Weatherford, Brian Weber (’06), and Benjamin Wolpaw.

Twenty-seven 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: Nicolas Bethoux (’06), Emily Bostwick, Stephen Cabrera (’06), Patricia Casal, Kelsey Cohen-Roth, Andre Dev, Marc Engel, Hannah Engel-Rebitzer (’06), Max Gardner (’06), Yotam Guggenheim, John Hornick, Cristina Hubbard, Christopher Inniss, David Kohn (’06), Matthew Koletsky, Grace Lynch, Marguerite Moore, Sean Muron, Amanda Murphy (’06), Lavinia Pavlish (’06), Andrew Schiraldi, Ryan Schork, Amy Silver, James Stephenson, Shan Tie (’06), Diana Wang (’06), and Malik Wiggins (’06).

Fifty-three 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 David Anderson, Avi Bakshani, Rebekah Benish, Alexander Buchheim, Jessica Campbell-Morris, Laura Chernin, Hannah Corrigan, Anna Dev, Julia Ferguson, David Frisof, Catherine Gladden, Elizabeth Griffith, Morgan Grossman-McKee (’06), John Gustafson, Rebecca Heide, Brandon Hemmelgarn (’06), Robert Kaleal, Daniel Kanter, Braeden Kepner-Kraus (’06), Eric Kramer, Lauren Kutik, Emma Lawrence, Clare Malone, Andreas Marcotty, Adam Margolius, Kevin Margolius, Brendan McDonald, Andrew McFarlane, Corey Morrison, Colin Murphy, Moira O’Neill, Jason Plautz, Nayyir Qutubuddin (’06), Lee Reis, Emily Rosenberg, Benjamin Sattin, Samuel Schiller, Sarah Shenk, Nathan Siegel, Julia Siverston, Lauren Slive, Caroline Smith, Meagan Steiner, Jonathan Strassfeld, Carolyn Troha, Jennifer VanLunteren, Nathaniel Victor, Alex Wang, Jing Wang, Flint Whistler, Sarah Wiedemann, Thomas Wilson, and Emma Witte.

In addition to being designated AP Scholars with Distinction, Rebekah Benish, David Frisof, Rebecca Heide, Daniel Kanter, Eric Kramer, Emma Lawrence, Kevin Margolius, Lee Reis, Julia Sivertson, Caroline Smith, Carolyn Troha, and Alex Wang 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. Historically, Shaker students in this category have been 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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