AP Scholars
Darlington and Floyd County Schools both announce their students honored by The College Board.
During the 2016-17 school year, 98 Darlington students 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.
The College Board’s AP 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. Students took AP Exams in May after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools.
At Darlington, five 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 Herren Burgess (’17), Anna Katherine Cates (’17), Brock Gardner (’17), Thompson Liu (’17) and David Wu (’18).
Thirty-five 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 Andrey Aprelikov (‘17), William Berry (’17), Herren Burgess (’17), Anna Cagle (’17), Anna Katherine Cates (’17), Amy Chen (’18), Yifan Chen (’18), Sara Dickinson (’17), Bernadette Ebri (’17), Emily Edwards (’18), Henry Fields (’17), William Flammer (’17), Jiawei Gao (’17), Brock Gardner (’17), William Groover (’17), Katherine Gu (’18), David Hagler (’18), Gabrielle Jones (’18), Nicholas Jones (’17), Sophia Kalusche (’18), Christina Kinder (’17), Peter Liu (’18), Mingzhao Liu (’17), Ansley McCoy (’18), Emily Orr (’17), Madeleine Padgett (’17), Luke Parker (’17), Kush Patel (’17), Andrew Pickens (’17), Gianna Pieroni (’17), Sam Tackeberry (’18), Griffin Wheeler (’17), Noah Woford (’17), Wei Wu (’18) and Rong Ye (’18).
Twenty-three 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 Claire Anderson (’18), Zane Anderson (’17), Michael Blackmon (’18), Cooper Brock (’17), Stacy Chen (’18), Ishani Desai (’18), Sam Ding (’18), Jackson Eady (’19), Virgil Gong (’18), Huy Hoang (’17), Elizabeth Hudson (’17), DongKyu Kim (’17), Ian Kinney (’17), Jamie Lertprasertpong (’17), Jack McClain (’18), Robert Monroe (’18), Caroline Schrum (’17), Tanner Shadday (’17), Abigail Sklar (’18), Jasmine Sparkman (’18), Amanda Temples (’18), Fowler Walker (’18) and Nora Winkler (’17).
Forty students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Examinations, with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are Carson Barnes (’17), Arin Broderick (’17), Annaliese Clevenger (’17), Jacqueline Cline (’18), Caroline Cordell, Ethan Delashmit (’17), Olivia Drake (’17), Chandler Edge (’17), Sarah Flaniken (’17), Mary Fricks (’18), Madeline Hurley (’18), Ellen Jiang (’19), Mamie Johnson (’17), Sam Kim (’17), Katie Li (’17), Yiqi Liu (’18), Callie Maffett (’18), Stella Miao, Ram Miniyar (’19), Palesa Molapo (’17), John Mumber (’17), Farrin Mumpower (’17), Long Nguyen (’18), John Pearson (’17), Samuel Raper (’17), Tejas Reddy (’19), Anna Roberts (’18), Anabelle Scarborough (’18), Rainey Scarborough (’18), Alan Shorey (’18), Abigail Smith (’18), Rand Smith (’18), Dara Sodipo (’18), Ngan Tran (’17), Lisa van Susteren (’17), Madison Vaughn (’17), Nolan Wilson (’18), Philip Wofford (’18), Wilson Zhang (’18) and Annie Zheng (’17).