One hundred sixteen students in the St. Mary’s County Public School system 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 18 percent of the more than one million high school students in more than 15,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar.
Students took AP Exams in May 2005 after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student’s performance on AP exams. The first award level is that of AP Scholar. To achieve this recognition, students must have completed three or more AP Examinations, with grades of 3 or higher. In 2005, the following students received this award:
At Chopticon High School:
Timothy Dodson, John Bates, Alyssa Keating, Kevin Bearden, Paul Abell, Jennifer Drake, Elizabeth Cerkez, Stephani Roark, Daniel Kurtz, Ashleigh Vines, Lauren Cook, Amanda Bertele, Kristin Aldridge, Michael Whitaker, Sara Mears, Brian Shea, Amanda Wilson, Steven Price, and Caitlin Wescoe.
At Great Mills High School:
Stephanie Hartwick, Favia Merritt, Kaitlin Jencso, Steven Norris, Kurt Kebaugh, Justine Crutchfield, Brett Veitch, William Fogarty, Michael Wilder, Meagan Norris, Victoria Gallagher, Ashley Bailer, Sharon Jones, Alicia Lang, Anna Mischke, Lynn Klug, Sarah Murphy, Elizabeth Fahrner, Christopher Tondevold, Ashley Hanrahan, and Benjamin Phelps.
At Leonardtown High School:
Stephanie Sweeney, Caitlin Rose, Jenna Delozier, Jared Birkholz, Tyler Beeney, Brendon Cummings, Sarah Taggert, Mary Feng, Mithra Alahverdizadeh, Gregory Malinowski, Jennifer Jones, Kelsey Stauff, Amber Schaffer, Mariel Saez, Matthew Ruby, Michael Billinger, Vishal Shah, Stacy Pulliam, Matthew Shaffer, Richard Stahr, Megan Miller, Diane Mattingly, Ashleigh Maloney, Zachary Huff, Kyle Simpson, and Andrew Devillier.
The next level of achievement recognized by the College Board includes those students who earned the recognition of AP Scholar with Honor. To achieve this recognition, students must have earned 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.
At Chopticon High School:
Anthony Kirby and Laura Ebach.
At Great Mills High School:
Kira Wilpone-Jordan, Barry Adkins, Johnnie Shablack, Leslie Godfrey, and Timothy Bock.
At Leonardtown High School:
Andrew Paul, Steven Boas, Deirdra Tiffany, Catherine Baker, Sarah Hurley, Kevin Knaust, Shannon Cummings, Timothy Bunales, Enrique Gines, Kristin Bunales, Anna Vongohren, Laura Plath, Alisa Williams, Molly Holzbauer, Adam Hull, and Charles O’Brien.
The next level of achievement recognized by the College Board includes those students who earned the recognition of AP Scholar with Distinction. Students receiving this award have 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.
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