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National Merit Scholarship Program recognizes 14 seniors
Fourteen Baldwin seniors have been recognized by the National
Merit Scholarship Program for outstanding performance on the
2007 PSAT. They include Semifinalists Zoe Cunningham, Allison
Hume and Marielle Young. Fewer than one percent of the
students who took the PSAT were designated as semifinalists.
Commended Students include Alexandra Arenz, Alexandra
Ibarguen, Kate Michel, Mollie Nisen, Ali Pederson, Larissa Russell,
Madeline Scott, Sylvie Spewak and Arianne Wenk. These students
placed among the top five percent of those who took the test.
Rashana Trim has been named a semifinalist, and Alia Murray
has been named an Outstanding Participant in the National
Achievement Scholarship Program.
The 14 girls represent nearly one-third of the Baldwin
senior class.
Grads and seniors named AP Scholars
Twenty-eight members of the Classes of 2008 and 2009
have been named Advanced Placement (AP) Scholars by the College
Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the
college-level AP Examinations.
Approximately 18 percent of the more than 1.5 million high
school students who took the AP exams in May 2008 performed
at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition. The College
Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on the
number of yearlong courses and exams. AP exams are graded on
a scale from one to five, with five as the highest level.
Ten graduates of the Class of 2008 qualified for the AP
H O N O R S F O R S C H O L A R S
Seniors who were recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program for outstanding performance on the PSAT include: seated front row – Semifinalists Allison Hume, Marielle
Young and Zoe Cunningham; National Achievement Scholarship Semifinalist Rashana Trim and National Achievement Scholarship Outstanding Participant Alia Murray; back row
– Commended Students Madeline Scott, Alexandra Arenz, Sylvie Spewak, Mollie Nisen, Ali Pederson, Larissa Russell, Arianne Wenk, Alexandra Ibarguen and Kate Michel.
Baldwin students are named National Merit and Advanced Placement Scholars
Scholar with Distinction Award by earning grades of three or
above on five or more AP exams with an average of at least 3.5.
They are Sophia D’Ignazio, a first-year at Barnard College;
Samantha Simmons, a freshman at Georgetown University; Michaela
LaVan, a first-year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Lynne Dzubow and Jill Greenfield, both freshmen at Washington
University; Ilana Glassner and Monika Wasik, both freshmen
at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ameena Schelling, Bailey
Sperry and Andrea Oliva, all freshmen at Princeton.
Four grads and four current seniors qualified for the
Scholar with Honor Award by earning grades of three or above
on four or more AP exams with an average of at least 3.25. The
grads include Alison DiCiurcio, a freshman at Harvard College;
Natania Field, a freshman at Columbia University; Alysa Frost,
a freshman at Rice University; and Danielle Niu, a first-year at
Haverford College.
The seniors are Allison Hume, Alexandra Ibarguen,
Arianne Wenk and Marielle Young.
Ten students, including six grads, qualified for the AP
Scholar Award by completing three or more exams with grades
of three or higher. The grads are Heather Bernstein, a first-year
at Brandeis University; Haley Pearlstein, a freshman at George
Washington University; Lauren Stern, a first-year at Swarthmore
College; Morgan Tancredi, a freshman at Vanderbilt University;
Maryam Witte, a freshman at Davidson College; and Aviel
Worrede-Mahdi, a freshman at Dartmouth College.
The current seniors who qualified are Emily Acker, Alessandra
Cardi, Seulah Choi and Zoe Cunningham.
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