Seventeen FA students capture AP Scholar Awards

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy’s upperclassmen put forth a remarkable performance on the 2014 Advanced Placement exams, with 17 students earning AP Scholar distinction. These students now belong to a group comprising just 18 percent of the more than 1.9 million high school students worldwide who took AP Exams this spring.

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   The Advanced Placement program offers three categories of awards each year in order to recognize high school students who have demonstrated college-level achievement through AP courses and exams. Four FA students earned the highest award — AP Scholar with Distinction — by posting an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and scoring 3 or higher on at least five exams (students receive a score of 1-5 on each exam).
    Luming Guan ‘14 racked up a 5 on all five exams she took (Calculus BC, Statistics, Physics B, Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, and Physics C: Mechanics) while Katie Buerger ‘14 excelled on six exams (compiling three 5s and three 4s). Yuqing Zhang ‘14 (four 5s and a 4) and Tianqi Zhuang ‘14 (three 5s and two 4s) also captured the AP’s highest honor.

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    Four students earned the title of AP Scholar with Honor by receiving an average score of at least 3.25 on all exams taken and scoring 3 or higher on four or more exams. Despite having a full year of high school left, Alex Hung ‘15 aced all four exams he took: Calculus AB, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics B. Zhaojing Ji ‘14 (four 4s), Mingyi Yan ‘15 (a 5 and three 4s), and Zhaozheng Yu ‘14 (two 5s, a 4, and a 3) were also named Scholars with Honor.
    Nine more students were named AP Scholars by posting scores of 3 or higher on at least three exams: Bo Chen ‘15, Yiming Chen ‘14, Fia Dang ‘14, Blake Dyer ‘14, Selina Guo ‘14, Sam Keane ‘14, Daniel Lee ‘14, Travis Vincent ‘14 and Bingxuan Ying ‘15.