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2010 AP Scholars Announced
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hours credit,” she Hutchison congratulates the following girls who were said. Jones credits the named 2010 AP Scholars by the College Board based on Hutchison faculty for outstanding academic performance on their Advanced fostering her love of Placement (AP) exams. science, saying, “My Sophie Davidoff ’11, Maggie Donoghue ’10, Anne National AP Scholar Amanda Jones ’10 (right) with Faunne Brown, upper teachers instilled Morgan Guenther ’10, Riki Higgins ’10, Kirra school physics, entered college this in me a passion Horne ’10, Mary Aubrey Landrum ’10, Mary fall with 54 hours credit based on her outstanding AP scores. for learning and Mitchum ’11, Lacy Moore ’10, Chandler Reece ’11, championed science Sarah Sherman ’11, and Mary Elisabeth Tipton ’10 education for women. With their encouragement, I qualified as AP Scholars by earning an average score of decided to pursue engineering—a field still under3 or higher on three or more AP exams. represented by women.” AP Scholar with Honor Awards went to Lane Hutchison offers 18 AP courses that allow girls to Billings ’10, Grace Forsdick ’10, Kate Loveless ’10, complete college-level work in upper school. AdmisTeresa Morrissey ’11, Claire Tenent ’10, and Ann sion into an AP class is based on past performance in Thompson ’10, who each earned an average score of at the subject area, effective study and time management least 3.25 on all AP exams and scores of 3 or higher on skills, and a teacher four or more exams. recommendation. Kate Carruthers ’10, The culmination of Elaine Dellinger ’10, each AP course is a Vanessa Gravenor ’10, comprehensive exam Maggie Green ’10, developed by the Katherine Hammond College Board. ’10, Sarah Helton ’10, Eighty-nine percent Meredith Heppel ’10, of the girls who took Virginia Higginbo132 AP exams last tham ’10, Amanda spring earned at least Jones ’10, Claire Seniors Sarah Sherman (front row, from left), Teresa Morrissey, Claire McMullen, a 3 or higher, making McMullen ’11, and Mary Mitchum, (back row, from left) Sophie Davidoff, Amy Pickens, and Chandler Reece were recently named AP Scholars by the College Board. them eligible to Amy Pickens ’11 receive college credit, received AP Scholar upper-level placement, or both as a result of their high with Distinction Awards by earning at least a 3.5 on all AP scores. exams and scores of 3 or higher on five or more exams. “Our girls’ outstanding results on the AP exams In addition, Dellinger, Green, Helton, and Jones also reflect the high quality of Hutchison’s academic received the prestigious National AP Scholar Award, program,” says Sherry Blumberg, College Counseling given to only 15,103 students in the United States, by Director. “These scores send a strong signal to college earning an average score of at least 4 on all AP exams admissions offices that our girls are well prepared for taken and a score of 4 or higher on eight or more exams. success in their undergraduate programs. I’m particuJones, who earned top academic honors for all four larly pleased that our girls achieved some of their highyears in the Upper School, sat for a total of 11 AP est scores not only on the English and world languages exams and defied the odds to earn a 5 on each one. Now exams—traditionally among Hutchison’s strongest enrolled in the honors college at the University of disciplines—but also on the AP science and math exams Tennessee-Knoxville where she plans to double major as well.” in engineering and Spanish, Jones is grateful for Hutchison’s AP program. “I entered college this fall with 54
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