AP® SCHOLAR AWARDS

Date: October 15, 2023

The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) provides students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both from successful performance on the AP Exams. 

In May 2023, 885 students completed AP exams. Collectively, students took 1,837 exams representing tests from the Arts, English, History and Social Sciences, Math and Computer Science, the Sciences, World Languages and Cultures, and AP Capstone. Lovejoy High School students continue to demonstrate excellent achievement, both in classroom performance, and through the College Board’s external validation. 

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on students’ performance on AP Exams. Three hundred fifteen students at Lovejoy High School have earned AP Scholar Awards and recognitions of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams. 

At Lovejoy High School, 120 students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are Mathias Alling, Javkhaa Altansukh, Ali Arbabi, Grace Arnold, Ania Basu, Samatha Belatur, Lane Beller, Alicia Bemis, Gianna Bierman, Bryce Bobo, Nathaniel Bognot, Aliyah Book, Fletcher Boots, Victoria Burchett, Sharon Chen, Tracy Chen, Hannah Christenson, Kaylee Christiansen, Cameron Coleman, Madeline Coughlin, Pierce Dardano, Victoria Dias, Hannah Dollinger, Lauren Dumin, Natalia Duran De La Vega, Neola Edwin, Simi Fadel, David Fagner, Declan Finnigan, Makenna Ford, Margo Friloux, William Frost, Anup Ghumman, Austin Gonzalez, Brayden Hagle, Emma Hansen, Alexandra Harris, Peyton Hays, Madeleine Hays, Helena Heinrich-Barna, Cole Hibberd, Grant Hu, Dillon Hughes, Joshua James, Madelyn Jaynes, Ainsley Johnson, Shreya Joshi, Romi Kahana, Jocelyn Kim, TJ Koch, Eleanor Koehn, Evelyn Kwon, Daniel Lamping, Mackenzie Lang, Devon Larimer, Bella Levin, George Lewis, Lucas Liu, Linnea Maddux, Katherine Manders, Hannah Mao, Noah Marsden, Emily Marshall, Audrey McCaffity, Julia McPherson, Quinn Miller, Helen Miller, Davis Miller, Samad Mirza, Sara Morefield, Anthony Morgello, Mary Mueth, Emily Noack, Connor O’Donnell, Edina Odza, Eric Oesterling, Paari Palani, Liam Palazzolo, Calla Patino, Logan Pedersen, Emily Perry, Brooke Pittana, Taylor Platz, Heidi Porter, Neil Prakuzhy, Chakrearsey Prom, Sam Reagan, Sofia Rodas, Emersyn Runions, Akshat Saini, Kugu Scott, Luke Shull, William Simpkins, Katherine Smith, Madeline Smith, Camryn Sperling, Savannah Spors, Alina Srambickal, Julia Stall, Shruti Subramaniyan, Shengkun Sun, Edward Sutton, Brielle Taylor, Maryn Thompson, Sebastian Torres, Alexander Tranchina, Evelyn Tsai, Elijah Varghese, Tamanna Verma, Erin Verschage, Addison Vondersaar, Jonah Vuong, Michelle Wang, David Wang, James Wilkins, Luke Wright, Haoran Wu, Hannah Wyrick, Nicholas Yarad, and Avigayl Zanzuri.

36 students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are Kennedy Adcock, Mallory Ansley, Myles Beard, Ciana Blinkiewicz, Natalie Burns, Deen Choudhry, Annabelle Clay, Nicole Cornell, David David, Kaitlin Davis, Aarathi Devakumar, Katelyn Helfand, Bridget Johnson, Jack Kuhn, Ethan Le, Anna Leininger, Sophia Li, Joseph Modine, Zoe Nolan, Connor O’Dowd, Cambry Patrick, Garrett Payne, Roman Pittana, Andrew Poulton, Beau Rice, Robert Schnurr, Talon Seidel, Ahma Shaikh, Ellis Smith, Hunter Stark, Isabel Szymanski, David Wallace, Bec Wang, Christopher Wang, Paige Young, and Kevin Zhang. 

156 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with scores of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are Nabilla Abdalla, Humzah Ahmad, Ali Ahmad, Ismaeel Ahmed, Amina Ahmed, Payton Archer, Joshua Arnett, Ella Ashley, Mia Baack, Brianna Bacher, Emma Ball, Maeve Berner, Joseph Bluestein, James Bognot, Christopher Bolden, Mackenzie Borges, Caleb Born, Tristan Bourree, Parker Bowcutt, Mark Bowling, McKenna Brand, Camden Bratz, Mikayla Brown, Oliver Brown, Jordyn Brunett, James Brunson, Luca Campbell, Bella Campbell, Kyra Chagarlamudi, Sean Chang, Samuel Chen, Caleb Christian, Katelyn Coleman, Riley Constant, Ella Crawford, Philip Daverio, Jackson Delaney, Claire Diaz, Layne Doffing, Bryce Doffing, Sophia Dong, Tyler Doyle, Luke Doyle, William Drescher, Liam Dunleavy, Amelia Elliott, Elizabeth Esposito, Gabriel Ezell, William Fahrendorf, Ryan Finn, Nicholas Galanakis, Gianni Gallegos, Hannah Gapp, Abigail Getenet, Christian Giordano, Avery Hammett, Landon Heruska, Sarah Hibberd, Mitchell Hodge, Katherine Hyndman, Isabella Iannarelli, Jaedon Ibarrola, Soniya Jacob, Caroline Jacob, Grace Jett, Maya Jezin, Libby Johnson, Devon Karras, Cullin Khakoo, Theo Khakoo, Jasmine Khalil, Nathan Kinser, Natalie Knight, Margaret Koehn, Annabella Kokoricha, Marco Laos, Jackson LaTorre, Campbell Lester, Laynce Lim, Claudia Lindeberg, Kailey Littelfield, Brandon Lopez, Cameron Lopez, Aakash Malvankar, Margaret Manders, Victoria Mason, Angelina Mason, Joel Mathew, Alannah McCraw, Tiernan Miller, Blake Mitchell, Cole Mitchell, Drew Mori, Luke Morris, Sarah Muckelroy, Wesley Myatt, Veronica Nickell, Nolan Novotny, Bridget O’Dowd, Apia Okorafor, Mason Olsen, Sarah Omobogie, Christopher Pages, Alexa Paharik, Morgan Paharik, Kiah Pandey, Hagio Pang, Brandon Pearl, Jackson Perry, Sarah Philips, Naomi Pearson, Gregory Powers, Charli Pulley, Mia Reaugh, Annalysa Ritchie, Abigail Rodriguez, Amy Romero, Chase Roundtree, Isabella Ruiz, Delaney Russell, Chloe Russell, Juhi Sahay, Sarah Salsgiver, Jake Schuler, Lena Shariff, Travis Shoemake, Eric Silva, John Sinacola, Ethan Smith, Julie Snow, Jackson Starnes, Savannah Starr, Austin Stone, Ryder Sullivan, Emily Szymanski, Natalie Taylor, Nicholas Terranova, Abigail Thomas, Travis Thomas, Jerzy Tokarz, Madison Urquhart, Amanda van Dillen, Anishka Vellanki, Ava Vermie, Reagan Wagner, Ella Weston, Ashby Lyn Williams, Luke Winchester, David Wise, John Witherspoon, Jonathan Woulfe, Bethanie Wu, Veronica Ye, Nicole Young, Izhan Zaidi, and Isabella Zinn.

7 students qualified for the AP Capstone Diploma by completing both AP Seminar and Research and earning a 3 or higher. Diploma students also earn a 3 or higher on four additional AP courses of their choosing.  The AP Capstone Diploma students are Aliyah Book, Sharon Chen, Eleanor Koehn, Emily Perry, Camryn Sperling, Abigail Thomas, and Maryn Thompson. 

5 students earned the AP Seminar and Research Certificate by earning a score of 3 or higher in both courses. They are Sophie Arriaga, Mark Bowling, Elizabeth Esposito, Devon Karras, and Marco Laos. 

Each exam is developed by a committee of college and university faculty and AP teachers, ensuring that AP Exams are aligned with the same high standards expected by college faculty at some of the nation’s leading liberal arts and research institutions. More than 3,800 colleges and universities annually receive AP scores. Most four-year colleges in the United States provide credit and/or advanced placement for qualifying exam scores. Research consistently shows that AP students who score a 3 or higher on AP Exams (based on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest) typically experience greater academic success in college and have higher college graduation rates than students who do not participate in AP. 

Lovejoy ISD will honor each of the 2023 AP Scholar award winners at a recognition ceremony in early 2024.