NHS Students Receive AP Scholar Awards

Fifty-three Newtown High School students have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level advanced placement program (AP) exams.

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. 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.

Students took the AP exams in May 2004.

At Newtown High School, one student, 2003 Valedictorian Carolyn Brennan qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on the AP exam’s 5-point scale.

The following students qualified as AP Scholars with Distinction by earning an average of at least a 3.5 on all AP exams taken: Matthew Barackman, Dina Bowen, Micahel Brill, Kelli Gardner, Leslie Greenfield, Jim He, Tyler Hull, Alana Jacoby, Alia Kemsley, Bethany Ober, Sean Rawson, and Caitlin Weber.

The following students were recognized as AP Scholars with Honor by earning an average grade of 3.24 on all AP exams taken: Patrick Armstrong, David Bunger, Ross Coates, Brett Eastman, Victoria Filler, Eric Fisher, Ryan Kraft, Angela Lam, Daniel Letson, Carolyn Lipnick, Robert Liu, Julia Lysaght, James Morlath, Erin Murdoch, Adam Pennarola, April Scheuerell, Sharon Small, Steven Truitt, and Tanya Whippie.

The following students were qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP examinations with a grade of 3 or higher: Matt Abrams, Justin Bass, Shannon Bell, Margaret Boushell, Geoffrey Brault, Michael Compagnoni, Andrew Fiscella, Christine Glander, Brian Hunt, Nicholas Isles, Julie Iwanicki, Adam Konneker, Benjamin March, Kathleen Mayer, Chelsea Morin, Filipe Moura, Katherine Orzechowski, Krishna Patel, Jonathan Silver, Alexa Vacaro, and Jacob Vogel.