LCHS Students Earn AP Scholar Designations

This year, 146 La Cañada High School students have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advance 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.

These students took AP Exams in May 2004 after completing challenging coilege-level courses at La Cañada High School. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student’s performance on AP exams.

Twelve LCHS students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students are Michael Caswell, Eric Cheng, Daniel Fishman, Sirina Keesara, Muhibb Khan, Jonathan Kim, Thomas Lee, Jessica Luttkus, Edgar Mkrtchian, Alison Sanders, Alexander Siegel and Timothy Yiu.

Forty-two LCHS students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are David Alexanian, Kathryn Bache, Kanokraj Benjauthrit, Matthew Burrows, Lauren Chapman, Christine Cho, Florencia Choi, Sharon Chon, Christopher Chung, Kevin Corti, Haig Darakjian, Jason Dietz, Mark Eisen, Tracy Fong, Amanda Gutin, Sven Hauksson, Christopher Henley, Trudy Hong, Katherine Hurlbutt, Yasmine Jamnejad, Umar Khan, Eun Koo, Jordan Kurt, Andrew Lee, Stephanie Lee, Sarah Lim, Alyssa Louie, Patrick Masters, Alexis Mintz, Paul Moura, Claire Oakes, Erica Oh, Stephen Parham, Priyanka Rajago-palan, Nicholas Rawls, Michelle Row, Joshua Samani, Dorian Soracco, Katherine Spence, Maressa Takahashi, Emily Vernon and Kate Weber.

Thirty-four LCHS students qualified for the 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 Jace Armstrong, Kathryn Barry, Michael Brady, Walter Campbell, Leticia Cheng, Justin Chi, Bryan Ching, Samuel Cho, Andy Choi, Jeffrey Collins, Christine Dai, Ina Dan, Scott Doubleday, Thomas Gies, Alan Hamai, Neil Huang, Brian Kotick, Erika Kweon, Colin McQuay, Thomas Michael, Andrius Mikuckis, Kara Murphy, Rachel O’Reilly, Olivia Park, Sarah Park, Soo Park, Rubin Resnick, Rashmi Sahai, Walter Shatford. Kristen Smith, Matthew Stoner, Marina Vigen, Iris Wong and Amaras Zargarian.

Fifty-eight LCHS students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP examinations, with grade 5 of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are Carrie Arboleda. Anushe Ashraff, Erik Bell, Patrick Border, Justin Brooks, Anne Burton, Caitlyn Chacon, Tiffany Chan, Andra Chantim, Kimberly Chau, David Chung, Jennifer Clary, Bridget Clerkin. Amanda Cochran, Ryan Cosgrove, Dawn Darling, Jessica DiPalma, Jessica Fong, Diahnn Futalan, Jennifer Han, Kevin Ivory, Lillian Jaeger, Lily Kaiserman, Isabel Kanholm, Kyle Kawakami, Kristin Khanna, Devin Kim, Erin Kim, Sara Kim, Tyler King, Kihong Lee, Michelle Lee, Stella Lee, Matthew Lew, Rex Lin, Meghan McGlashan, Mathew Mikuni. Matthew Motia, Stacy Oh, Daniel Park, Grace Park, John Pearson, Timothy Peng, Anne Penniall, Joshua Rhee, Andrew Rhymer, Christina Schiller, Shahab Shahangian, Justin Shin, Michael Spangler, Kohei Takahashi, David Weaver, Darcy Wilcox, Connie Woo, Rani Woods, Lynn Yi, Vanessa Yu and Amanda Yue.

Of this year’s award recipients at La Cañada High School, 49 are juniors and have one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn another AP Scholar Award.

Most of the nation’s colleges and universities award credit, advanced placement, or both based on successful performance on the AP Exams. More than 1,400 institutions award a full year’s credit (sophomore standing) to students presenting a sufficient number of qualifying grades. Thirty-four AP Exams are offered in a wide variety of subject areas.