One hundred and thirty Shaker Heights High School students and June 2014 graduates have been named AP Scholars by The College Board in recognition of their outstanding performance on three or more Advanced Placement (AP) examinations administered through May 2014. This represents 33 percent of the Shaker students who took AP exams; worldwide, about 18 percent of the 2.3 million 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 standing, or both for successful performance on 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 2014, more than 30 AP exams were offered by The College Board in a wide variety of subject areas.
Shaker Heights High School offers 22 Advanced Placement courses in 18 subject areas: music theory; English; world 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, world 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 2014, 394 Shaker students took 788 AP examinations, with 86 percent earning a score of 3 or higher. By the time they graduate, more than 40% of Shaker students have taken at least one AP course.
The students honored graduated in June 2014 unless otherwise noted.
Forty-three students were named AP Scholars by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. They are Arpit Agrawal (’15), Michael Blatchford, Andrew Boardman, Rae Conlon (’15), Jeremy Cronig (’15), Casey Crowley (’15), Rachel Elson (’15), Deborah Falokun (’15), Will Fridlund, Alexandra Gaines, Arman Gerami, McKinley Glasser, Jonathan Goldenberg (’15), Justin Hobbs, Cameron Isenberg (’15), Timothy Jones, Anthony Koch (’15), Bradley Kruithoff, Alan Luntz (’15), Sarah Marek (’15), Michael Miller, Ana Mitchell (’15), Alicia Murphy (’15), Jacob Myers (’15), Humara Nadeem (’15), Jennifer Neary, Kerstin Niedermaier, Peter O’Neill (’15), Noah Pollack (’15), Lyndsi Powell (’15), Eric Relman (’15), Isabel Rothman (’15), Louis Seguin (’15), Jasmine Shabazz, David Shakno (’15), Alexander Smith, Samuel Stager, Bonnie Sutherland (’15), John Vodrey (’15), Jessica Wayne (’15), Olivia Webster (’15), Kevin White, and Grant Zempolich (’15).
Twenty-four 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 Jordan Brett (’15), Jack Canaday (’15), Nathaniel Christman (’15), Gianni Ciccarelli (’15), Robert Douglass, Steven Friedman-Romell, Jacob Herbst, Isabel Kalafatis (’15), Natalie Kennedy (’15), Tyler Krantz, Rohit Kumar, Phillip Maciejewski, Sarah Marks (’15), Grace Miller, Isabelle Nejedlik, Patrick Pastore, Katelyn Richardson (’15), Micaela Richter (’15), Tyler Rosner, Jared Sbrocco, Benjamin Shafran (’15), Dylan Straffon, Zane Weltman (’15), and Noah Wheeler (’15).
Sixty-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 Nicholas Adamson, Sameer Apte (’15), Kieran Aulak (’15), Mario Belfiglio, Chloe Binczyk, Marcia Brown (’15), Taylor Butze (’15), David Carter (’15), Jack Crowley, Alexander Cullina (’15), Zane Eisen, Yuxuan (Linda) Fan, Zicheng (Brian) Gao (’15), Paul Goetze, Benjamin Goodman, Isabel Haber (’15), Madeline Hertz (’15), Zachary Hofstetter, Lee Hsu, Charles Hummel, Anna Hundert, Laura Hundert, Leo Izen, Anna Katz, Colin Kempton (’15), Ryan LaMonica, Ori Lindner, Cherie Lo (’15), Maeve Lyness, Emily Mathur (’15), Alexander Maytin, William McFadden, Shane McKeon, Mark McKinzie (’15), Omar Mohamed (’15), Elizabeth Montenegro, Matthew Podl, Alexandra Rae-Grant, Patrick Reed, Lucy Richman, Benjamin Robertson (’15), Gabrielle Rose (’15), Elana Ross (’15), Shaunak Roy, Ilana Sadholz (’15), Evan Seballos, Sarah Shaw, Evan Siegel, Natasha Simske, Ari Smith (’15), Anna Strnisha, Narayan Sundararajan (’15), Jackson Sweeney, Anno van den Akker, Zachary von Ryan, Andrew Wang, Mia Wang, Yixuan Wang, Luke Weinberg, Cassandra Wood (’15), Colin Yule, Luke Zhu, and Ezra Zigmond.
In addition to being designated AP Scholars with Distinction, 26 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. Shaker’s national AP Scholars are Jack Crowley, Zane Eisen, Yuxuan Fan, Zicheng (Brian) Gao, Benjamin Goodman, Zachary Hofstetter, Lee Hsu, Charles Hummel, Anna Hundert, Leo Izen, Ryan LaMonica, Maeve Lyness, Alexander Maytin, William McFadden, Elizabeth Montenegro, Shaunak Roy, Evan Siegel, Natasha Simske, Jackson Sweeney, Anno van den Akker, Andrew Wang, Mia Wang, Yixuan Wang, Colin Yule, Luke Zhu, and Ezra Zigmond.