Fifty-Seven Salesianum Students Earn A.P. Scholar Designation

Fifty-seven students at Salesianum 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 (AP) Exams taken in the spring of 2007.

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 1.4 million high school students in more than 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 2007 after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools. The College Board recognizes levels of achievement based on student's performance on AP exams.

At Salesianum School, three students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students are H. Anthony Arena, Shawn Heiss, and Kevin Kowal.

At Salesianum School, 20 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 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are H. Anthony Arena, Daniel Durkin, Evan Ewald, Justin Field, Jon-Marc Finamore, Steven Foltz, Joshua Greever, Shawn Heiss, Ryan Kavanagh, Christopher Konen, Daniel Kowal, Kevin Kowal, Benjamin Linskey, Jeffrey Markle, Jason Patterson, Derek Shum, Joseph Smith, Philip Tang, Ryan Vaughan, and Matthew Viereck.

Eight students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are John Bockrath, Daniel Domin, Jeremy Irwin, Addison Maier, David McNeeley, Timothy Mueller, Timothy Richard, and Dorsey Terry.

Twenty-nine students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Examinations, with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are: Andrew Acker, Marco Alberti, Eric Austin, Michael Ballintyn, Stephen Batten, Stephen Christ, Paul Cusick, Chaz Enerio, Gerard Gallo, Collace Greene, Bray Hansel, Brett Hession, Adam Kirsch, Kevin Konen, Christopher Lafferty, Jeffrey Laverty, Anthony Lizza, Peter Lyons, Christopher Marenco, Michael Moyer, Michael Mullin, Matthew Panchisin, Ryan Patrick, James Riley, Michael Sabatina, Joseph Savage, Benjamin Schell, Matthew Tumas, and Nathan Volk.

Of this year's award recipients at Salesianum School, 18 earned their status as members of the junior class: Marco Alberti, Eric Austin, Stephen Christ, Chaz Enerio, Collace Greene, Ryan Kavanagh, Kevin Konen, Daniel Kowal, Christopher Lafferty, Peter Lyons, Christopher Marenco, Ryan Patrick, Jason Patterson, Joseph Savage, Benjamin Schell, Matthew Tumas, Ryan Vaughan and Nathan Volk. These students have one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn another AP Scholar Award.