Only about

13 percent of the more than 840,000 students who took AP exams in May

performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.

Students take

AP exams in May after completing challenging college-level courses at

their high schools. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement

based on the number of yearlong courses and exams.

Eleven students

qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average

of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and grades of three or higher on

five or more of these exams. These students are (Fayette County) Ryan

Coram, Wanting Lin, Anson Ratliff and Michael Spradlin; (McIntosh) Edward

Duckett, Michael Lee, Cristina Mojica and Yosuke Nomura; (Starr's Mill)

Alexandra Capell, Joel Rapp and Chad Troop.

AP Scholar

with Honor Award recipients must earn an average grade of at least 3.25

on all AP exams taken and grades of three or higher on four or more of

these exams. Twenty-five students were awarded this honor: (Fayette County)

Amelia Brown, Megan Cannon, Charles Chambers, Erin Moore, Kathleen Sellers,

Lydia Sherwin and Stephanie Wetzel; (McIntosh) David Condon, Nicholas

Cotton, Ashish Gajjar, Amanda Graham, Chelsea Hartt, Tony Hung, Maureen

McGregor, Sydney Mathiesen, Lauren Myers, Linday O'Connor, Kathleen Powers,

Amit Salkar, Sundeep Sood, Nicole Spencer and Brian Williams; (Sandy Creek)

Michelle Brown, Stephanie Greenlea, Anuj Mahajan and Douglas Niggley;

(Starr's Mill) Imani Beverly, Christopher Harrison, Jessica Kirsch, Sara

Sams, Kristen Shockley and Kristin Tuttle.

The AP Scholar

Award is given to students who complete three or more AP exams with grades

of three or higher. Forty-seven students qualified. These students are

(Fayette County) Sharjeel Hooda and Lauren Walker; (McIntosh) Lyndi Barclay,

Christine Charaf, Brian Childs, Andrea Demarino, Daniel Graham, Kara Grubb,

Scott Holt, Erik Houston, Adam Jessen, Robert Jones, Kristin Karker, Anna

Martin, Mohamad Momin, Kathryn Murphy, Meredith Oakey, Calista Schenck,

Robert Sellers, Michael Silloway and Asuka Yanashita; (Sandy Creek) Emilie

Tullis, Kimberly Alberts, Courtney Cranford, James Davey, Jesse Dukes,

Emily Kirby, April Maxwell, Elisabeth Nelson, Shalamar Parham, Ryan Ratto

and Evan Shola; (Starr's Mill) Jessica Burke, Danielle Cagle, Samuel Chang,

Lauren Elder, William Fine, Jared Grace, Joshua Hirschel, Adam Linton,

David MacKinney, Christopher Reed, Kirsten Shaw, Brian Spears, Lakshmi

Sridaran, Sarah Strode and Nathan Young.

Of this year's

recipients, three are underclassmen: Sharjeel Hood (Fayette County), Emilie

Tullis (Sandy Creek) and Kirsten Shaw (Starr's Mill). These students have

this year in which to do college-level work and possibly earn another

AP Scholar Award.

The College

Board is a national nonprofit membership association dedicated to preparing,

inspiring and connecting students to college and opportunity. Each year,

the College Board serves more than three million students and their parents,

22,000 high schools and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services

in college admission, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment,

teaching and learning.