97 Benjamin Students Earn AP Award Distinctions
Benjamin upper school students were recognized by the AP Program for their outstanding college-level achievement through their performance on multiple AP Exams. Director of College Counseling Anna Wright commended the sophomores and juniors during a virtual upper school assembly. The scholars received three different award levels: AP Scholar, AP Scholar With Honor, and AP Scholar With Distinction.
“Every year our Benjamin students who are enrolled in our Advanced Placement courses take the final AP exams in May,” said Wright. “Students who score at the highest levels are considered AP Scholars by the College Board. Last year we had 233 students take 538 exams . . . 97 Benjamin students were named as scholars. Many graduated last year,” Wright said.
Wright first recognized AP Scholars, or those students who received scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams their sophomore or junior year. Commendations went to: Luke Cannata, Casey Crawford, Devyn Dyett, Bradley Groffman, Hudson Hale, Siddharth Jasti, Kaitlyn Lower, Danai Makoni, Hannah Perez, Ellena Pierman, Ryan Riutta, Michael Scellato, Eric Sprague, Katherine Waxman, and Grady Wolf.
AP Scholars With Honor were granted to students who received an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Scholars With Honor were awarded to Matthew Berube, Caitlin DeGraff, Mary Eversmann, Ran Gu, Parth Patel, Michael Reznik, Thomas Rose, Aaryan Somadder, Jake Zur, and Skyler Zur.
AP Scholars With Distinction were those students who received an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Wright congratulated Brandon Davis, Molly Fried, Reed Gahan, Madeline Hart, Alexandra Kahn, Aidan Le, Alexander Michelon, Holden Neer, Nadia Poncy, Jill Salach, Emma Shirzad, and Nichaela Williams on this distinction.
The National AP Scholar Title was reserved for those students earning an average of 4 or higher on all of their exams and a score of 4 or more on 8 AP exams. Julie Moquin and Aidan Neidoff received this high honor.
“We are very proud of the efforts all of our students put in,” said Head of Upper School Fletcher Carr.
Carr also congratulated National Merit Scholars, Commended Students. These students were in the top 3 percent of students nationwide who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Carr acknowledged Madeline Hart, Alexander Michelon, Holden Neer, Hannah Perez, Nadia Poncy, and Emma Shirzad for achieving the high honor.
“We are incredibly proud of our students to be among such a select group,” said Carr.
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