School Notes 22% Named National Merit Semifinalists—Highest Percentage in City
(Front) Samantha Bergman, Kathleen Mathieu, Shirley Yan, Sara Schonfeld, Sarah Kloepper, Ainsley McWilliams, Danny Korn; (middle) Elizabeth Verchoor, Nancy Cohen, Josh Wang, Hope Brown, Brandon Williams, Walker Schiff, Josh Tiao, Michael Bi; (back) Quinn Schweier, Aaron Ransohoff-Englert, Gilbert Pasquale, Bryan Romaine, Josh Dunaway, Corey Williams, Britt Cyr, Daniel Yu, and Robby Woodworth. Not pictured is Emilio Fernandez. Seniors who were named as National Merit Commended students are Samantha Bergman, Nancy Cohen, Emilio Fernandez, Gilbert Pasquale, and Elizabeth Verschoor. In the National Hispanic Recognition Program, Kathleen Mathieu was named a Scholar, and Emilio Fernandez received Honorable Mention. In the National Achievement Scholarship Program, seniors Hope Brown, Brandon Williams, and Corey Williams were named Outstanding Participants. Students qualify for recognition in the National Merit, National Achievement, and National Hispanic Scholarship Programs with their scores on the PSAT/NMSQT®.
Seventeen Seven Hills seniors or 22% of the class qualified as semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program. This is the highest percentage of semifinalists among Greater Cincinnati schools. In addition to the 17 semifinalists, five seniors were named National Merit Commended students, bringing the percentage of the class to receive National Merit recognition to 28%. National Merit semifinalists are Michael Bi, Britt Cyr, Josh Dunaway, Sarah Kloepper, Danny Korn, Ainsley McWilliams, Aaron Ransohoff-Englert, Bryan Romaine, Walker Schiff, Sara Schonfeld, Quinn Schweier, Josh Tiao, Josh Wang, Henry Warrington, Robby Woodworth, Shirley Yan, and Daniel Yu.
60 Seniors, 2009 Graduates Named AP Scholars inson, Mimi Weber, Steven Young. AP Scholars with Honor (grades of 3 or higher on 4 or more AP’s and average grades of 3.25 on all AP exams taken)— seniors Madeline Elkus, Adam Jatho, Sarah Kloepper, Kohki Nakafuku, Kyle Neu, Aaron Ransohoff-Englert, Chessie Scheiber, Quinn Schweier, Josh Tiao, Shirley Yan; and ’09 graduates Neel Bekal, Olivia Carey, Peter Chomczynski, Abbey Gauger, Louise Head, Sean McKibben, Brian McNamara, Erin Molloy, Kennon Ulicny. AP Scholars (grades of 3 or higher on at least 3 AP exams)—seniors Hope Brown, Nancy Cohen, Joshua Dunaway, Alex Hill, Erin Kelly, Kathleen Mathieu, Gilbert Pasquale, Justin Rau, Diya SenGupta, Lloyd Ulicny,
On the 272 AP exams in 20 different subject areas taken in May by 138 Seven Hills students, 89% of the scores earned were 3’s or better (5 being the highest), qualifying our students for advanced standing in college. The College Board announced the following: AP Scholars with Distinction (grades of 3 or higher on 5 or more AP’s and average grades of 3.5 on all AP exams taken)—seniors Britt Cyr, Lena Geissler, Danny Korn, Ainsley McWilliams, Bryan Romaine, Sara Schonfeld, Joshua Wang, Henry Warrington; and 2009 graduates Jamee Bender, Billy Braff, Alyssa Dunn, David Karp, Elliana Kirsh, Julie Koenig, David Leonard, Peter Mannion, Zachary Nacev, Sondra Polonsky, Sarah Rabourn, Andrea Ray, Megan Rob13
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