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23 University High School Students Earn ‘AP
Scholar’ Honors
DECEMBER 8, 2004 -- Twenty-three former and current students at
University High School have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the
College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the
college-level Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams.
University High School is a charter school of the Sierra Unified School
District located on the campus of California State University, Fresno
and sponsored by the university’s College of Arts and Humanities.
Established in 2000 as a college prep school with an equal emphasis on
academics and music, UHS has a current enrollment of 350 students and
graduated its first class in 2004.
Students take AP Exams in May every year after completing challenging
college-level courses at their high schools. The College Board’s
Advanced Placement Program offers students the opportunity to take
challenging college-level courses while still in high school, and to
receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful
performance on the AP Exams. About 17 percent of the more than one
million high school students in almost 15,000 secondary schools
worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to
merit the recognition of AP Scholar. The College Board recognizes
several levels of achievement based on a student’s performance on AP
Exams.
One student, Stephen Ho, a member of University High School’s first
graduating class of 2004, qualified for the National AP Scholar Award 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.
Seven students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award 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. These students are
2004 graduates Melissa Cabral (UCLA), John Dawson (Reed College),
Geoffrey Gross (University of Redlands), Peter Guekguezian (St. John's,
Annapolis), Stephen Ho (Harvard), David Rapp (Fresno City College) and
Peter Witt (Stanford after a year in China).
Three students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning
an average grade of at least 3.25 or higher and grades of 3 or higher on
four or more of these exams. These students are 2004 graduates Abigail
Dillon (Oberlin College) and Alexander Early (UC
Berkeley), and current senior Carson Baucher.
Thirteen students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by earning an
average grade of 3 or higher on 3 or more AP Exams taken. These students
are 2004 graduates Erin Connor (Rockland College), Raeonna Einerson (UC
Berkeley), Jena Gardner (Northwestern), Addison Larsen (BYU), Sukhmani
Singh (CalTech), Jason Sue (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), and Irene Yen (UC
Berkeley), and current seniors Lisa Eleazarian, Meredith Esguerra,
Andrew Hall, Yosef Mahmood, Eric Ritter and Elaine Shrestha.
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