Chelsea students earn AP Scholar Awards

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Chelsea High School recently announced that 70 students have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of exceptional achievement on Advanced Placement exams. The College Board’s AP program provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and earn college credit for successful performance on the AP exams.

Roughly 18 percent of the nearly 1.7 million students who took AP exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn AP scholar recognition.

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based upon student performance on the AP exams.

The following students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of a 4 or higher on a five point scale on all AP exams taken, and they must have taken at atleast eight of these exams. This is an impressive feat that is awarded upon a small percentage of students.

These students are: Benjamin Christie, Duncan Harris, Christopher Mattison and Margaret Raines.

Thirty two students at Chelsea High School also qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least a 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are:

Erin Benjamin, Benjamin Christie, William Dark, Kim Eckart, Riley Feeney, Cameron Girard, Duncan Harris, Noah Hermann, Nicholas Hewitt, Lauren Johnson, Samantha Keene, Todd Kruse, Abby Lewis-Lakin, Katherine Lindauer, Eric Marzec, Christopher Mattison, Reid Mauti, Katherine McEachern, Eva Morrel-Samuels, William Murdock, Carolyn Olsen, Amanda Patton, Margaret Raines, Vinisha Rana, Scott Richards, Corey Robertson, Zoe Rozsa, Sean Ruffin, Sarah Shrosbree, Michael Stratman, Hayden Uihlein and Ryan Wrathall

Twenty one students at CHS qualified for AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an 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. These students are:

Jordan Alligood, Matthew Bach, Cameron Beatty, Joshua Bryant, Jenna Bumstead, Kaitlin Cottrell, Hannah Crowder, Gwendolyn Eder, Daniel Gilbert, Jack Hermann, Patrick Holloway, Nichole Hopp, Timothy Koch, Robert Kucinski, Jakob Lotz, Sophia Pappas, Viktor Rozsa, Nicole Saarinen, Krystin Schwarze, Andrew Sensoli and Kathryn Steklac

Thirteen students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing 3 or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. These students are:

Schuyler Adkins, Adam Brennan, Olivia DeTroyer, Nicholas Gordenier, Jacob Hash, John Hillaker, Matthew McClelland, Sean McQuarrie, Drake Olejniczak, Jacob Powell, Mark Smith, Tristan Weber and Nicholas Weir.