Sixty-three Oakridge students have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level 2015 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 20 percent of more than 2.1 million high school students in more than 21,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar. At The Oakridge School, 51 percent of the students who took AP Exams were named AP Scholars.
Students took AP Exams in May 2015 after completing challenging college-level courses in the Upper School. Of this year’s award recipients, 24 were juniors when they took their AP Exams. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on a student’s performance on AP exams. The following is a summary of awards earned by Oakridge students and graduates.
National AP Scholar
Earned 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
- Caroline Boyd-Rogers (’15)
- Michael Carovillano (’15)
- Ryan Fitzgerald (’15)
- Michael Greer (’15)
- Tobias Kroll (’15)
- Anuj Ramakrishnan (’16)
AP Scholar with Distinction
Earned 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
- Christopher Bell (’15)
- Lea Cane (’15)
- James Coman (’15)
- Madison Kuenzli (’15)
- Gretchen Leffler (’15)
- Amanda Little (’15)
- Parker Meredith (’15)
- Blake Miranda (’16)
- Sarah Mitchell (’15)
- Jason Nguyen (’16)
- Sarah Schoening (’15)
- Ariel Thomas (’15)
- Christian Thomas (’15)
- Christian Tjoa (’15)
- Zoe Truong (’16)
- Cade Wooten (’16)
- Zihan Xu (’15)
AP Scholar with Honor
Earned an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four of more of these exams
- Kenda Al-Assi (’15)
- Christopher Crocker (’15)
- Kourtnei Fong-Kutchins (’16)
- Dakota Guerrero (’15)
- Cole Kellam (’16)
- Junyoung Koh (’16)
- Paige Levine (’16)
- Zoe Miller (’16)
- Tianjie Pei (’15)
- Shelby Warrington (’16)
AP Scholar
Completed three or more AP Examinations with grades of 3 or higher
- Chanse Alexander (’15)
- Hayden Allen (’15)
- Braden Bell (’15)
- Tiereney Bowman (’16)
- Brennan Butcher (’16)
- Patrick Callanan (’15)
- Theresa Clifford (’15)
- Lauren Davidson (’15)
- Alyssa Davis (’16)
- Paul DiFilippo (’16)
- Olivia Duke (’16)
- Blake Echols (’15)
- Skylar Frazier (’16)
- Caleb Hammond (’16)
- Brenton Handy (’15)
- Jessica Hubble (’15)
- Thomas Kirby (’15)
- Nicholas Kurth (’16)
- Ben Mohorc (’15)
- Robert Nance (’15)
- Carley Newman (’15)
- Aashni Pabley (’15)
- Sagar Patel (’15)
- Caroline Quinn (’15)
- Kyle Ruiz (’16)
- Marie Southern (’16)
- Elizabeth Thompson (’16)
- Nicholas Tran (’16)
- Taylor Willis (’16)
- Eric Wu (’15)