Williamsville students named AP scholars

In recognition of their achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement (AP) examinations last May, the College Board has named 214 Williamsville Central School District AP scholars.

Students take AP exams after completing college-level courses at their high schools. The majority of colleges and universities in the United States grant academic credit, advanced placement, or both to incoming students with qualifying AP grades. The exams are graded on a 5-point scale with five being the highest score.

Fourteen Williamsville students achieved the highest recognition by qualifying for AP National Scholar Awards, earning an average grade of 4 or higher on eight or more AP Examinations. They are, from North High School, 2006 graduates Deborshi Ghosh, Doowon Huh, James O'Leary, and senior Jenny Zhang; and from East High School, senior Jean-Gabriel Coignet and 2006 graduates Jonathan Cohan, Bo Hu, Christopher Llop, Nethra Madurai, Robert Niles, Steven Rice, Jason Scheff, Thomas Smith, and Li Wang.

The AP Scholar with Distinction Award designation is granted to students who receive an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and a grade of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams on full-year courses. The following Williamsville students received this distinction: from North HS, graduates: Samantha Berger, Lindsay Berman, Emily Berry, Stephen Berus, Anthony Blatner, Michael Dobmeier, Nicholas Fischer, Deborshi Ghosh, Holden Heitner, Grace Heusner, Emily Hoy, Doowon Huh, Kenneth Joseph, Nabeela Khan, David Klein, Megan McNally, Elina Meras, James O'Leary, Jesutomiloba Odunsi, Katelyn Palumbo, Laura Posner, Jennifer Rahman, Cathleen Roemer, Montgomery Service, Kristin Shaw, Sakina Sojar, Daniel Sternberg, Joseph Stromberg, Bardley Taylor, Brian Vaccaro; and seniors Esha Dasgupta, Sharavanan Thevanayagam, and Jenny Zhang.

From South High School - graduates: Jacqueline Boekelman, Alexandra Galbo, Martha Hanna, Wendy Jansson, Melissa Kaye, Charles Kruly, Sarah Morse, Matthew Murphy, Daniel Potter, Arlie Schrantz, Anchara Vivek, and Linda Willett.

From East High School - graduates: Ketan Bedmutha, Jonathan Cohan, Gregory Degen, Kristyn Gergelis, Mateen Haroon, Bo Hu, Michael Krzeminski, Christopher Llop, Genevieve Loomis, Nethra Madurai, Christopher Mahl, Zoe Marinides, Harsha Nair, Robert Niles, Ashwin Rao, Steven Rice, Jason Scheff, Diana Shen, Adnaan Sheriff, Thomas Smith, Rohan Srinivasan, Krishna Upadhyaya, Krista Wallden, Li Wang, Megan Welch, Chen Yang, Lauren Yu; seniors: Jean-Gabriel Coignet, Maleeha Haroon, Yasemin Kosar, Helen Oh, Arjun Pravin, Mrinal Rath, Rutwik Rath, Priya Singhal, Cathy Sun, Jacqueline Wong; and junior Richard Sima.

Qualifying for the AP Scholar with Honors Award by receiving grades of 3 or higher on four or more AP Examinations, with an average exam grade of at least 3.25, were:

From North High School - graduates: Andrea Berry, Melissa Chrites, Laura Deren, Stephen Koshansky, Joseph LeGasse, Michael Mastroianni, Amanda Smith, Brittany Sumbler, Amanda Ziemann. Seniors: Daniel Cho, Philip Constantinou, Khurram Dara, Benjamin Dessoye, Yuan (Jerry) Gao, Rachel Goldstein, Sahoor Khan, Jeffrey Long, Yunchi Luo, Jillian Piaggione and Eric Przbyszewski.

From South High School - graduates: Maureen Brady, Martha Brody, Zachary Heintzman, Michael Kracker, Jeffrey Link, Emily Mohr, and seniors: Anna Diakun and Stephanie Mulhern.

From East High School - graduates: Shana Bartkowski, Madison Cyphers, Lora Emel, Mae Huo, Tracie Husted, Alisa Rabovsky, Carrie Roehner, Laura Schultz, Jonathan Soh, Christopher Wozniak: seniors: Pooja Bakhai, Angelica Catalano, Emily Cogsdill; Rohini Kadle, Claire Lochner, Ioannis Mountziaris, Katherine Peterson, and juniors: Kane Hsieh and Connie Liu.

Williamsville students qualifying for the AP Scholar Award by receiving grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP Examinations were:

From North High School - graduates: Genevieve Boreanaz, Michael Brown, Lauren Carmer, Ahmed Eddib, Robert Eimer, Sofiya Erman, Stevie Giordano, Michael Kane, Minjoo Kim, Susan Kranz, Melissa LaMastra, Jessica Lemmon, Dillen Li, Melinda Long, Patricia Michaelsen, Andrew Mikulski, Michelle Nusinov, Ruxandra Pascanu, Alexe Pask, Melissa Pawlak, John Rusin, Stephanie Sass, Lauren Silverstein, Rahul Singh, Christina Ventresca, Andrea Wilson; seniors: Daniel Deleon, Elizabeth Dutweiler, Valeriya Dvinova, Joelle Formato, Adam Gervase, Steven Glickman, Karrie Gurbacki, Lauren Hall, Michael Maizel, Anna McCarthy, Meaghan Murphy, Caroline Narby, Meredith Petit, Julie Timm, Michael Waldrop. juniors: Shayan Ghose, Christopher Han, Assen Petrov, and Reuben Sass.

From South High School - graduates: Anna Braunscheidel, Rachel Crane, Kathryn Duval, Timothy Eaton, Timothy Hull, Bryan Karchensky, Rachel Licata, Daniel Longo, Katherine McDonald, Alexandra Meyers, John Morphis, Arjun Sood, Chelsea Truesdell, Richard Wolffer; and seven seniors: Feldberg Alexander, Elaina Giolando, Marc Heintzman, Marc Morelli, Katherine Ostroot, Emily Schwartz, and Emily Stoner.

From East High School - graduates: Susan Buzzard, David Choo, Meredith Edelman, Iriny Faltas, Karoline Faltas, Sara Grossberg, Caitlin Hahn, Chelsey Hartley, Patrick Hines, Brinda Krish, Brian Miller; seniors Victoria Cheng, Sana Maheshwari, Michael Metzger, Sarah Oh, Jay Patel, Laura Price, and junior, Katherine Tang.

Of the total number of Williamsville students named 2006 AP scholars, 71 are current students who have at least one more year in which to possibly earn another AP award.