Ninty-three students at Archmere Academy have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams. Ten students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average score of 4 or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students are from the Class of 2015 – Preet Bhaidaswala, Meibin Chen, Kathleen Dempsey, Emily Dentinger, Mark Melvin, Mathew Oslin, Payas Parab, Savannah Quinn, and Raylin Xu and from the Class of 2016 – Greg McCord.
Raylin Xu qualified for a State AP Scholar Award. The designation of State AP Scholar is granted to the one male and one female student in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia with scores of 3 or higher on the greatest number of AP Exams, and then the highest average score (at least 3.5) on all AP Exams taken.
Forty-two students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning 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. These students are from the Class of 2015 – Daniel Bannon, Preet Bhaidaswala, Michelle Bolner, Alana Bradley, Claire Caverly, Meibin Chen, Kathleen Dempsey, Emily Dentinger, Sean Devine, Sarah Dlugos, Katherine Ewing, Mary Fiorile, Robert Focht, Matthew Gallagher, Madeline Guido, Andrew Hurst, Christian Kraft, Noah Marcolongo, Katie Maurer, Maggie Maurer, Mackenzie McDougal, Kassidy, McVey, Mark Melvin, Elizabeth Millard, Devon O’Dwyer, Matthew Oslin, Payas Parab, Savannah Quinn, Michael Schiavello, Emily Simons, Anna South, David Sullivan, Alexis Vondran, Audra Woodside, Nicholas Xiao, and Raylin Xu, and from the Class of 2016 – Laurel Dentinger, Alec Giakas, Greg McCord, Joseph Spall, Rahul Subbaraya, and Caleb Wang.
Twenty-three students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning 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. These students are from the Class of 2015 – Naa-Djama Attoh Okine, Regan Bice, Colleen Carney, Kurt Clements, Megan Clements, Samuel Dainton, Nicole Kushner, Edward Leonard, Pauline Raisis, Elisabeth Schiltz, and Zane Wilson and from the Class of 2016 – Sophia Cipriano, Victoria Falasco, Christine Ford, Meghan McBride, Philip Miller, Hannah Palczuk, John Luke Pileggi, Megan Reynolds, Peter Sabini, Taylor Tucker, John Vaile, and Jessica Zbranak.
Twenty-eight students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with scores of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are from the Class of 2015 – Anna Baxter, Christina DeFelice, MyKelya Dickerson, Brian Falkenstein, Patrick Fallon, Alexandra Fields, Shannon Hogue, Henry Moore, John Michael Nocket, Mary Kathleen Pinto, Alexandra Rabil, Abigail Smack, Caleb Smack, Meredith Vondran, and Hubert Thomas Whan Tong and from the Class of 2016 – Daniel Bondi, Frances Buckley, Chloe Danyo, Ashley Diggins, Paul Henjes, Madison Kennedy, Claire Moosberg, Jacob Regler, and Lauren Yoslov and from the Class of 2017 – Alison Lobo, Kathryn Slomski, Brennan Stark, and Makala Wang.
Of this year’s award recipients at Archmere Academy, thirty one are sophomores or juniors: from the Class of 2016 – Daniel Bondi, Frances Buckley, Sophia Cipriano, Chloe Danyo, Laurel Dentinger, Ashley Diggins, Victoria Falasco, Christine Ford, Alec Giakas, Paul Henjes, Madison Kennedy, Meghan McBride, Greg McCord, Philip Miller, Claire Moosberg, Hannah Palczuk, John Luke Pileggi, Jacob Regler, Megan Reynolds, Peter Sabini, Joseph Spall, Rahul Subbaraya, Taylor Tucker, John Vaile, Caleb Wang, Lauren Yoslov, and Jessica Zbranak and from the Class of 2017 – Alison Lobo, Kathryn Slomski, Brennan Stark, and Makala Wang. These students have at least one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn a higher-level AP Scholar Award.
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