The Hicksville School District recently announced that 112 students in the Hicksville High School Classes of 2014 and 2015 have earned the designation of Advanced Placement Scholar from the College Board due to their outstanding achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement exams.
The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on a student’s performance on AP exams. Twenty-seven students were named AP Scholars with Distinction, including six National AP Scholars. Eighteen students were named AP Scholars with Honors, and 61 were designated as AP Scholars.
The Hicksville Public School District’s 16 AP courses offer students the opportunity to take college-level courses while still enrolled in high school. If a student passes an AP exam, future college credit may be granted. Each AP exam is graded on a scale of 1 to 5, with 3 or higher being a passing grade.
National AP Scholars
Amatullah Fatehi, Ashna Joseph, Sebastian Niculescu, Alessandra Riccio, Paige Varney and Brian Yang qualified for the National AP Scholar award by each earning an average score of 4 or higher on eight or more AP exams. This is the highest honor an AP Scholar can earn.
AP Scholars With Distinction
Twenty-seven students received AP Scholar with Distinction awards 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 Michelle Carlomusto, Kevin Chen, Matthew Cheung, Abhishek Doshi, Jason Egielski, Melissa Farsang, Amatullah Fatehi, Ashna Joseph, Samantha Keteleen, Annie Lang, Janine Meurer, Anthony Minerva, Priya Mishra, Sebastian Niculescu, Tariq Rasuli, Alessandra Riccio, Gurvinder Singh, Daniel Sloan, Sargunvir Sondhi, Patrick Sullivan, Shincy Thomas, Paige Varney, Denny Wang, Jordan Weiss, Amanda Wong, Brian Yang and Tiffany Zhou.
AP Scholars With Honor
Eighteen 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. Zifeng Chen, Julie Choi, Christina Claus, Harsh Darji, Enzo Deferrari, Mina Gradinarova, Bryant Grey-Stewart, Deniz Gunaydin, Ryan Hernandez, Nikhil Jacob, Stefan Nielsen-Sperb, Alyssa Schmith, Miranda Senft, Zafreen Siddiquee, Rajwinder Singh, Nazifa Tokhi, Sara Wilhelm and Dionistos Zisimatos all achieved this distinction.
AP Scholars
Sixty-one students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by receiving scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams. These students are Faiz Ahmed, Saqib Ansari, Ansh Arora, Christopher Arsenian, Philip Arsenian, Alexandra Cabra, Jennifer Castelan, Kaelan Chan, Ashley Danseglio, Bhavika Darji, Yash Desai, Jessica Deturris, Eswar Dommaraju, Jaineel Doshi, Manan Duggal, Kasper Dworzanczyk, Michael Fellows, Tyler Fotenos, Olivia Funk, Simran Gill, Michelle Giuffrida, Archana Goparaju, Gabrielle Goubran, Jerry Hslao, Hira Iftikhar, John Marlin, Karin Mohammed, Navneet Kaur, Simran Kaur, Tarandeep Kaur, Abdullah Khalid, Edward Kim, Sean Kingsepp, Karlie Lamia, Christopher Lau, Nicholas Maineri, Milar Mathew, Jay Matlani, Tyler McCready, Srishti Mehta, Mary-Joy Mendoza, Thomas Miller, Penpichaya Miyan, Jennifer Oliva, Kashyap Patel, Alisha Patil, Andrew Purcell, Hemali Rajput, Rebecca Rilling, Patrick Roldan, Resala Samadi, Niharika Shah, Pallak Sharma, Lovedeep Singh, James Stannish, Kaitlyn Sullivan, Chris Swift, Tracy Timque, Rashi Vashishta, Benny Wong and Stephen Wyatt.
