Students at Corona del Sol High School have earned an unprecedented 107 scholar awards in the Advanced Placement exams they took in May.
The College Board’s AP program offers motivated students a chance to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to receive college credit or advanced placement for successful performance on the AP exams.
The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on a student’s performance.
National winners — Average grade of four or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of four or higher on eight or more of the exams: Jena Chalmers, Susanna D’Souza, Owain Evans, Adam Huang, Jinoh Lee, Jordan Mitchell, Joseph Park, Atreya Tadepalli, Andrew Xi, Max Yang, Teresa Yu.
Scholar with Distinction winners — Average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of three or higher on five or more exams: Laura Belmont, Shaye Busse, Jena Chalmers, Natalie Crawford, Susanna D’Souza, Owain Evans, Michael Gee, Nicole Holly, Adam Huang, Niharika Jain, Roshini Kalagara, Jinoh Lee, Justin Lee, Jordan Mitchell, Christina Moon, Shannon O’Brien, Anuja Oke, Joseph Park, Varun Pattalachinti, John Patterson, Erin Pelley, Dylan Polo, Kayleigh Porritt, Catherine Riedel, Cami Rowan, Atreya Tadepalli, Sonya Tao, Marina Tian, Yifan Tian, Fowsia Warsame, Tanner Wolfram, Andrew Xi, Max Yang, Melody Yeh, Teresa Yu, Angela Zhang, Andrew Zhou.
Scholar with Honor winners — 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: Caeli Ackles, Raquel Baier, Roger Chang, Aashini Choksi, Madison DesMaisons, Katelyn Dinkel, Zachary Lawson, Marco Lohavanijaya, Madison Margolis, Nathaniel Marshall, Kristina Nedelkova, Luke Nero, Maria Predtechenskaya, Ushrayinee Sarker, Derek Shi, Sree Manasvini Subbaraman, Laura Wang, Hannah Watts, Shaojia Zhao.
Scholar winners — Completed three or more AP Exams with grades of three or higher: Daisy Bennett, Shane Carr, Anthony Chau, Benjamin Chen, Emily Crisler, Kajal Dave, Lauren Dwyer, Brett Erspamer, Andrew Eversden, Tayler Everts, Pragathi Gopal, Allison Gray, Alexander Grimm, Kathryn Holste, Maryn Jackson, Grant Jensen, Jason Juang, Cindy Juarez, Claire Kamienski, Andrew Ketterman, Michelle Le, Daniel Lee, Tara Margolis, Jarif Mian, Sanna Naveed, Maria Panopoulos, Aditya Parekh, Nicholas Richards, Maxwell Schmeekle, Julia Schroder, Miles Scull, Jennifer Sieczkowski, Elizabeth Steele, Matthew Stephens, Nathan Tam, Megan Whittard, Sara Wood, Angela Yang, Wade Young, Zihan Zhang.
Many of the students were juniors at the time they took their exams so they have one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn another, even greater AP Scholar Award.
Said Principal Brent Brown:
“We have worked diligently to increase opportunities for all students to take AP classes. We have also increased our AP course offerings and we have made it a priority to increase the rigor of our AP courses so students have the best educational experience, which better prepares them for their educational endeavors after high school.
“I am impressed with the sacrifices of my staff who became AP certified and I am equally impressed with the number of students who are now taking at least one AP course and who are showing great academic success in their AP assessments.”
More than 2.5 million students at over 19,000 high schools took AP exams this year, including approximately 300 Corona students. More than 3,600 colleges and universities annually receive AP Exam scores. Most four-year colleges in the U.S. provide credit and/or advanced placement for qualifying scores.
