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Blaine high students earn honor

Nineteen students at Blaine 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 Exams.
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 18 percent of the more than 1.3 million high school students in 16,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar.

Students took AP exams in May 2006 after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools. The college board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student’s performance on AP exams.

At Blaine high school three 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 three or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are Matthew Gorze, Kendra Rushing-Kuntz and Donald Yung.

Sixteen students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of three or higher. The AP Scholars are Sam Abrams, Beth Black, Tegan Bukowski, Nate Dodgson, Melody Freeman, Ryan Goodwin, Chelsey Gumley, Lauren Hyman, Eli Kramme, Nicole Mattichuk, Will Nichols, Jason Smith, Jordan Steelquist, Kevin Teng, Brandon Utter, Katherine Yorke.

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