Newsmakers
Lakeside High School AP Scholars
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Seventy-nine students at Lakeside High School have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the 2008 college-level Advanced Placement Program Exams.
Benjamin Chan, Hema Kondur, Wenlan Ma, Rosemary Song and Linda Yi qualified for the National AP Scholar Award. Students qualify by earning 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.
Twenty-seven students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction. Students qualify 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. Students who qualified are Caitlin Amick, Kara Barlow, Benjamin Chan, David Ding, Patrick Garcia, Revant Gupta, Kris Hardy, Daniel Hess, Kathleen Hynes, Hema Kondur, Kaitlyn Leaf, Jason Lind, Wenlan Ma, Emily Masghati, Mitali Mehta, James Meixiong, Evan Mulloy, Arrthi Murugappan, Paul Park, Joseph Phillips, Angela Pocta, Rosemary Song, Jeffrey Tran, Patrick Tynan, Afoma Umeano, Linda Yi and Osman Yousufzai.
Thirteen students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award. Students qualify 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. Students who qualified are Arya Aghdasi, Saba Gill, Carolyn Granade, Kirtley Hitt, Muhan Hu, Charles Johnson, Danielle McKie, Michael Palmese, Kerri Phillips, William Reeve, Connor Watkins, Alexander Wright and David Yavorsky.
Thirty-four students qualified for the AP Scholar Award. Students qualify by completing three or more AP Exams, with grades of 3 or higher. Students that qualified are Stephanie Aguilar, Anthony Carr, Beth Carter, Dexter Chan, Allison Cheng, Poorvi Chhabra, Katie Davis, Kelsi Dennis, Matthew Dosch, Zachary Dromsky, Stephanie Elam, Rex Goecheritz, Cason Gordy, Hannah Hall, Soama Hashmi, Liana Howard, Dava Lehman, Tianxing Liu, Devi Morrison, Andrew Pak, Santosh Patel, Katherine Payne, Emily Payne, Emily Pepin, Kristen Peterson, Dennis Quinlan, Kristyna Rathkamp, Lindsay Ridlon, Christina Rowland, Vipul Shekhawat, Jennifer Stanley, Lara Thompson, Emma Turner and Benjamin Valerio.