For Immediate Release Contact: Patricia Huebner, 630.570.8250 City, State: Hinsdale, Illinois September 24, 2009

371 Students at Hinsdale Central High School have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams.

The College Board's Advanced Placement Program CAP) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP exams. About 18 percent of the nearly 1.7 million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on students' performance on AP Exams.

At Hinsdale Central:

36 students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students are: Jad Abi-Mansour, Sandra Badaraite, Rahul Bhansali, Benjamin Chan, Julian Coltea, Paul Cooper, Christopher Davey, Naga Dharmavaram, Sean Donovan, Ben Follman, Amulya Gampa, Nora Ibrahim, Bohdan Khomtchouk, Alexander Kim, Mabry Kritzer, Shivani Kumar, Jeremy Lewis, Niamh McCarthy, Jill McClary, Anish Munagala, Christopher Murray, Vinay Nayak, Jessica Noglows, Jordan Pranger, Nandini Ramakrishnan, Julia Rayis, Rehan Saiyed, Victor Sheng, Michael Suen, Jennifer Trofa, Kristen Trofa, Matthew Tweardy, Peter Vayalil, Eric Zarcone, Joseph Zarcone, and Lauren Zumbach.

160 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: Alia Abdul-Samad, Jad Abi-Mansour, Dana AI¬Khaled, Ryan Anderson, Alex Andre, Louis Antonelli, Hyder Arain, Elizabeth Arens, Ali Arfeen, Sandra Badaraite, Jay Banerjee, Sean Bennett, Nicholas Benoit, Biren Bhansali, Rahul Bhansali, Karishma Bhatt, Melissa Breeden, Katherine Cantwell, Claire Carusillo, Benjamin Chan, Franklin Chan, Michael Chang, Thymur Chaudhry, Aneesh Chawla, Shi Chen, Courtney Cheng, Edward Cho, Henry Chou, Sarah Christensen, Nicole Cimo, Sarah Coady, Julian Coltea, Paul Cooper, Leo Daube, Christopher Davey, Ivan Davis, Laura DeHaan, Karen Desai, Naga Dharmavaram, Timothy Dickerson, Sean Donovan, Michael Doose, Patrick Dunlop, Melissa Endsley, Michelle Fasano, Ben Follman, Amulya Gampa, Claire Gilmore, Christopher Gozali, Jing Guo, Chase Hall, Alice Han, Madeleine Harnois, Taylor Hess, Rosemary Hines, Clare Houlihan, Justin Huang, Grace Hucek, Zachary Hulesch, Christopher Hurd, Stephanie lantorno, Nora Ibrahim, Sarah Isaac, Maryam Jameel-Kakwan, Amanda Kang, Larry Kelly, Brian Kemp, Claire Kennedy, Kamran Khakbaz, Sheena Khanna, Bohdan Khomtchouk, Alexander Kim, Kate Klein, Marina Konstantinovic, Mabry Kritzer, Elaine Kuckertz, Shivani Kumar, Kelly Labrash, Nancy Lauer, Katherine Leach, Jeremy Lewis, Jingyuan Li, Ruibei Li, Sarah Loiselle, Caitlin Lopes, Rachel Luangdilok, Sanya Lulla, Matthew Mackey, Aditya Malik, Kaelyn Malkowski, Victoria Mancini, Alexa Manos, Taylor Marsh, Niamh McCarthy, Jill McClary, Lina Meilus, Mackenzie Melvin, Anne Moberly, Maggie Modrovic, Anusha Moolky, Aimee Mori, Melissa Moucka, Anish Munagala, Christopher  Murray, Vinay Nayak, Alvan Ni, Allyson Nicholas, Jessica Noglows, Heather Nyheim, Allyssa O'Donnell, Adam Orozco-Comstock, Beth Palmer, Jason Pan, Arpan Patel, Sarah Perez-Sanz, Alexander Pollak, Jordan Pranger, Matthew Pundmann, Nandini Ramakrishnan, Vishnu Raveendran, Julia Rayis, Anne Rivelli, Alexander Rocca, Lauren Rouse, Casey Ryan, Andrew Ryu, Rehan Saiyed, Caitlin Salach, Katherine Schaller, Amy Scheuer, Daniel Schnell, Alex Scott, Tessa Shakon, Sara Shaner, Victor Sheng, Julia Sobieraj, Heather Stevens, Michael Streit, Michael Suen, Sibo Sun, Elizabeth Thorsness, John Tienken, Jennifer Trofa, Kristen Trofa, Irene Tu, Matthew Tweardy, Alexander Vander Linde, Ashley Vander Linde, Peter Vayalil, Michela Wagner, Lucas Walker, Ethan Weber, Claire Wood, Margaret Woolums, Jacqueline Ye, Kelly Yedinak, Eric Zarcone, Joseph Zarcone, Amy Zhou, Lauren Zumbach.

75 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 studenst are: Amer Ahmed, Jonathan Bachman, Tania Bajaj, Stefanos Bezanis, August Bloom, Robert Boling, Deepa Borkar, Shelby Bremer, Megan Cauley, Chelsea Celistan, Anna Clare Cosby, Kathryn Delaney, Diana Do, Adabelle Ekechukwu, Carolyn Fell, Andrea Fitzpatrick, Paul Flood, Luke Gill, Victoria Glatz, Whitney Hansen, Anna Helsley, Charles Hetke, Andrew Justus, Kathryn Knister, Antoinette Kokenis, William Kragie, Jason Lam, Theodore Lederhausen, Gyu Lee, Maylene Liang, Natasha Libera, Tyler Martin, Stephanie McKay, Kaitlin Miller, Colleen Morgan, William Morgan, Abigail Morrison, Matthew Noth, Suzanne Oskouie, Paul Osunero, Elizabeth Paganessi, Michael Parker, Ranen Parry, Seema Patel, Krishna Ravella, Robert Reedy, Marina Rostein, Kathryn Running, Francesca Sadler, Nikita Sawlani, Andrew Sebela, Arman, Sharifi, Kenneth Shaw, Andrew Silk, Joshua Sink, Charles Smalling, Sean Smith, Vinaya Soundararajan, Nicholas Stathopoulos, Alexander Stec, Thomasin Sternberg, Zachary Studnicka, Sean Sullivan, Yahya Syed, Anderson Tuggle, Alexa Tyler, Abbey Vanderwoude, David Verona, Natasha Vyas, Samuel Wangelin, Jordan Weed, L. Wilson, Chenge Zhang, Julie Ziolkowski, and Aubrey Zott.

136 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are Aryan Abrahimi, Meredith Adler, Margaret Altergott, Daniel Ballantine, Matthew Bishop, Lauren Bramson, Catherine Bruns, Taylor Burch, Samuel Bush-Joseph, Allan Cameron, Shay Caplice, Caitlin Capobianco, Priscilla Chao, Kelsey Chetosky, Kathleen Cleary, Timothy Collanto, Scott Cruwys, Kallie Culbertson, Mia Davis, Carina Digianfilippo, Jonathan Dillon, Joseph Divittorio, James Doheny, Courtney Dolehide, Emily Damiano, Brennan Drew, Catherine Edwards, Safiya Elahi, Lauren Emery, Madeline Enright, Maria Fikaris, Lauren Fitze, John Flannery, Haley Garvin, Chris Guo, Claudia Gupta, Alexi Gurick, Ameera Haider, Graylin Harrison, Colin Haughney, Robert Heidkamp, Douglas Hogenkamp, Kendall Hoover, Stephanie Houpy, Linette Hsu, Holly Hyland, Emma Javois, Nicholas Jehlik, Julie Jiganti, Stephanie Jordann, Rachel Joyce, Michael Kanter, Ryan Kelly, Diana Kelterborn, Madeline Kelterborn, Tyler Kerr, Ivan Keta, Kevin Khoury, Yoonjin Kim, David Kiyosaki, Sankalp Kota, Hailey Krzyston, Kristin Lamanna, Christina Lantero, Robert Larson, Jessica Leeper, Anthony Leon, Anne Lombardi, Carsten Luth, Evan Macayeal, Lorna Mackay, Michael Mahoney, Martin Malecki, Colleen Mann, Alexander Manta, Madeline Marucha, Clare McCabe, Megan McGarrah, Cailen Messersmith, Ziliang Mo, Amar Moolayil, William Moran, Madeline Morrison, Matthew Mrozek, Raymond Nechvatal, Caitlin O'Connor, Sean O'Grady, Alexandra Oreluk, Alex Orton, Christos Panagoulias, John Park, Emily Parkinson, Martha Parsons, Justin Pellino, Joseph Peng, Tierney Peterson, Amy Petrie, Lexa Pezzati, Jeremy Pincus, Jennifer Porter, Abigail Pozulp, Edward Qian, Dominique Roberts, Cassandra Rose, Marissa Ruszkowski, Walid Sankari, Andrew Sarros, Lauren Schmalbruch, Katherine Schmidt, Sarah Schuessler, Matthew Schwartz, Erica Scodro, Julia Selby, Dimitrios Simeakis, Victoria Sims, Emily Sivak, Allison Skibicki, Bradley Snyder Christa Stathopoulos, Sarah Steigerwald, Arlena Stones, Taj Tarsha, Nalin Thapar, Eileen Toomey, Jack Trager, Julie Turgeon, Nicholas Tyson, Faith Vernick, Adrienne Walker, Matthew Walker, Leighton Watts, Michael Weaver, Diana Whitmore, Daniel Wolf, Brandon Woodle, Xuan Xie.

Of this year's award recipients at Hinsdale Central, 26% were sophomores and 39.7% were juniors. These students have at least one more year in which to complete college level work and possibly earn a higher-level AP Scholar Award.

Through more than 30 different college-level courses and exams, AP provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to earn college credit or advanced placement and stand out in the college admissions process. Each exam is developed by a committee of college and university faculty and AP teachers, ensuring that our exams are aligned with the same high standards expected by college faculty at some of the nation's leading liberal arts and research institutions. More than 3,600 colleges and universities annually receive AP grades. Over 90 percent of four-year colleges in the United States provide credit and/or placement for qualifying exam grades. Research consistently shows that AP students who score a 3 or higher on AP Exams (based on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest) typically experience greater academic success in college and higher graduation rates than students who do not participate in AP.

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