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AP Scholar Awards 97% of AP Exam scores qualify for advanced standing in college
Sixty-three members of the Classes of 2015 and 2016 have been named AP Scholars by the College Board for their exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Exams. Of the 262 Advanced Placement exams in 17 subjects taken by 127 students, as of June 2015, 97 percent of the scores were 3’s or better on the 1-5 national scale, qualifying our students for advanced college standing. Receiving National AP Scholar Awards for average scores of at least 4 or higher on all AP Exams taken and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more are 2015 graduates Ben King, Ellen Lu, Ellie Pasquale, and Andrew Wilson, and senior Alex Jiang. Receiving AP Scholar with Distinction Awards for average scores of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more are seniors Fatima Anwar, Tigar Cyr, Ada Huang, Matthew Marquardt, Holly O’Neal, Bennett Smith, Nicole Tiao, and Kathleen Wang. 2015 graduates who received AP Scholar with Distinction Awards are Stefan Antonsson, Nicole Barresi, Adam Buford, Grace Carroll, Grace Cawdrey, Alayna Choo, Maddy Cole, Arjun Dheenan, Claudia Fernandez, Chas Gregory, Srishti Kapur, Pearce Keiser, Joanne Li, Nicole Malofsky, Mitch Polansky, Chris Shoemaker, Clarke Waskowitz, and Sean Yoshitomi-Gray. Receiving AP Scholar with Honor Awards for average scores of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more are junior Matisse Peppet and seniors Kate Coley, Lauren Collette, Margaret Cox, Brian Hills, Andrei Savu, Camille Williams, and Louise-Audrey Zenezini, and 2015 grads are Carl Compton, Avery Coombe, Jeff Dedeker, Alex Hunter, Chris Janidlo, and George Karamanoukian. Receiving AP Scholar Awards for scoring 3 or higher on three or more exams are seniors Alyssa Akiyama, James Coyle, Ryan Green, Clay Hausberger, Zach Sorscher, Danny Mutasim, Mike Nazzaro, Zach Sorscher, Claire Stewart, Gary Wang, and Kaylan Young, and 2015 graduates Henry Chavez, Sarah Kanter, Max Pochobradsky, Mollie Rouan, Mona Scheiber, Evan Smithers, Judy Sun, and 24 Tessa Weisenborn.
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National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students Seven Hills Tops National Merit Percentage Among Cincinnati Schools
The Seven Hills School continues its tradition of excellence with 25 students who received recognition from the National Merit Scholarship Program. Eight students were named Semifinalists and 17 were named Commended students.
Seven Hills National Merit Semifinalists are Fatima Anwar, Katherine Coley, Tigar Cyr, Alex Jiang, Bennett Smith, Zachary Sorscher, Claire Stewart, and Kathleen Wang. Commended students are Maria Bobbitt Chertock, Brandi Bryson, Abigail Clark, Matthew Clayton, James Coyle, Elliot Glum, Ada Huang, Jacob Lautman, , Matthew Marquardt, Mike Nazzaro, *Ben Nordmeyer, Kenneth Remaklus, Hayley Samson, Andrei Savu, Nicole Tiao, Camille Williams, and Jai Williams.
National Merit Semifinalists Bottom row: Kathy Wang, Kate Coley, Claire Stewart, Fatima Anwar Top row: Alex Jiang, Zachary Sorscher, Bennett Smith, After an extensive analysis of the percentage of students named National Merit Semifinalists based on the graduating class size Tigar Cyr of schools in Cincinnati, Seven Hills is please to announce that our Class of 2016 has produced the highest percentage of National Merit Semifinalists based on the graduating class size of schools in Cincinnati. “We are very proud of the Class of 2016 for many reasons, just one of which is their terrific scores,” said Head of School Chris Garten. “Twenty-nine percent of our graduating class has earned National Merit recognition and 9.6 percent of them are semifinalists, giving them the distinction of having the highest National Merit Commended Students percentage in the city!” Bottom row: Abigail Clark, Ada Huang, Nicole Tiao, Camille Williams, Andrei Savu, Hayley Samson, Brandi Bryson, Maria Bobbitt Chertock Top row: Mike Nazzaro, *We dedicate this page of academic Matthew Clayton, Elliot Glum, James Coyle, Jai Williams, Kenneth Remaklus, Jake accomplishments in memory of Lautman, Matthew Marquardt Ben Nordmeyer (1997–2014)