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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL113 named Advanced Placement ScholarsOne hundred thirteen ParkTudor students and graduates(and 44% of the Class of2007) have earned the designationof AP Scholar by theCollege Board in recognition oftheir exceptional achievementon the college-level AdvancedPlacement Program (AP) exams.Fourteen Park Tudor studentsand graduates have been namedNational Scholars and RickpaulDhindsa ’06, who attends theUniversity of Pennsylvania, isone of only two in the state tobe named a State Scholar.The State Scholar honor isgranted to the one female andone male student in the statewith grades of 3 or higher onthe greatest number of APExams, and then the highestaverage grade (at least 3.5) onall AP Exams taken.National Scholar honors goto Class of 2006 graduates RickpaulDhindsa, Doug Friedman,Fletcher Heisler, William Huster,Michelle Myers, Nick Perdue,Jessica Ranucci, Kirsten Reinecke,William Scales, Eli Simon, ChrisSweeney and Neha Yakhmi and toClass of 2007 members MichaelHarris and Ravi Parikh. TheNational Scholar Award is givento students who receive anaverage grade of 4 or higheron a 5-point scale on all APExams taken, and grades of 4or higher on eight or more ofthese exams.Forty-seven Park Tudorstudents qualified for the APScholar with Distinction Awardby earning an average of at least3.5 on all AP Exams taken, andgrades of 3 or higher on five ormore of these exams. They areClass of 2006 members CharlotteBourdillon, Tanya Devnani,Rickpaul Dhindsa, Doug Friedman,Lillian Goodman, MollyHamer, Ashley Hanson, FletcherHeisler, Elise Hellman, KatieHubbard, William Huster, PaulaIvaturi, Abbi Johnson, MarkKoivuniemi, Elizabeth Kulka,Blake Marshall, StephanieMcMechan, Michelle Myers,Chris Neubauer, AlexandraOppelt, Nick Perdue, EricaPonski, Jenna Ramsey, JessicaRanucci, Kirsten Reinecke,Chisato Sakamoto, WilliamScales, Katherine Schier, EliSimon, Michayla Sullivan, ChrisSweeney, John Thornburgh,Jimmy Waddell, Logan Walker,Adrienne Watson, LaurenWesley, Neha Yakhmi and LiZhang. Class of 2007 membersare Greg Bohn, Jack Brainard,Michael Harris, JaskaranHeir, James Lipshaw, KentaroMatsuoka, Ravi Parikh, LukeRobbins and Cindy Zhang.Twenty-six students qualifiedfor the AP Scholar withHonor Award by earning anaverage grade of at least 3.25on all AP exams taken, andgrades of 3 or higher on four ormore of these exams. They areClass of 2006 members YaprakBaran, Carsten Bick, ElizabethDunbar, Hunter Heniser, EvanHenricks, Sara Hubbard, AlexandraLanza, Alex Leopold,Spencer Summerville and MollieTavel; Class of 2007 membersLuisa Armstrong, KathrynCrabb, Whitney Dawson, MattDeVito, Drew Grein, CliffordHull, Sara Jetty, Nadia Khoso,Gediminas Ramanauskas, AlexScherer, John Scott, Karl Selm,Will Tait, Caitlin Vonderoheand Gregory Webber; andClass of 2008 member ReshmaKalimi.Forty students qualified asAP Scholars, receiving gradesof 3 or higher on three or moreAP exams. They are Class of2006 graduates Claire Balmas,Kyle Bemis, Dana Brunette,JP Cournoyer, David Dietz,Thomas Hardacker, JordanHavercamp, Alexandra Johansen,Michael Knapp, Laura Lauth,Jonathan McClure, MorganMcMillan, Tennie Renkens,Emily Rose, Sheryl Sabandal, TomSchroeder, Jennifer Sondhi, OliviaTaurel, Nick Tweedy, Mary BethWiningham and Sarah Zhang;Class of 2007 members LaurenBraun, Courtney Cantor, LaurenFisher, Emily Gaynor, FrankHapak, Adam Holt, MatthewLanter, Ben Mattingly, WillPearson, Meg Peterson, JulianneSicklesteel, Cameron Thomas,Elliott Thomasson, Austin Turner,Grace Tuttle, Victor Van denBergh and Skye Wallin; and Classof 2008 members Moses Moh andJonathan Risting.About 18 percent of the morethan one million students whotook AP exams in May 2006performed at a sufficiently highlevel to merit the recognition ofAP Scholar.18 receive National Merit honorsSeven seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2007National Merit Scholarship Program. Kathryn Crabb, MichaelHarris, Sara Jetty, James Lipshaw, Ravi Parikh, Luke Robbinsand Alexander Scherer were among the 16,000 students namedas semifinalists, representing fewer than one percent of U.S.high school seniors. They reached semifinalist ranking as a resultof their exemplary performance on the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They now have theopportunity to compete for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards,worth $33 million, that will be offered next spring.In addition, 10 seniors have been named Commended Studentsin the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program. They rank amongthe top five percent of the more than one million students whoentered the program. Those honored are Gregory Bohn, LaurenBraun, Whitney Dawson, Matthew DeVito, Lauren Fisher, DrewGrein, Jaskaran Heir, Clifford Hull, Bryan Tuckman and Victorvan den Bergh.Senior Courtney Holland has been named a semifinalist in the2007 National Achievement Scholarship Program. She is one ofonly 1,600 Black American high school seniors to be designated asemifinalist in the 43rd annual competition. The program honorsacademically promising black youth and provides scholarships toa substantial number of the most outstanding participants. As asemifinalist Courtney has the opportunity to continue in the competitionfor approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards,worth $2.5 million.Park Tudor students continue to significantly outperform national,state and local SAT score averages. For the Class of 2006, meanSAT scores are: Math - 646, Critical Reading - 636 and Writing- 620. This is the first year that Writing scores have been includedin the national report. These scores released by the College Boardreflect the latest set of mean scores for the Class of 2006; they donot reflect the best scores for students if they took the test morethan once.6 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX FALL 2006