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151 Advanced Placement Scholars

One hundred fifty-one students at Fountain Valley High School have been named AP Scholars by the College Board* in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Examinations. Only 13.8 percent of the 847,374 students who took AP Examinations in May 2001 performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition. However, at FVHS 32.5 percent of the students who took AP Exams received AP Scholar recognition.
Students take AP Examinations in May after completing challenging college-level courses at their high school. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on the number of year-long courses and exams (or their equivalent semester-long courses and exams). At Fountain Valley High School, 8 students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students (and the university they are currently attending) are:

Michael Chang (Harvard)	Alexander Marshall (U. C. I.)	Sharon Singer (Rice)
Michael Gray (U. C. I.)	Rojeh Melikian (U. C. L. A.)	Marisa Turner (U. C. I.)
Khoa Lam (Stanford)	Eugenie Shieh (current senior)

Thirty-nine 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:

Eliot Ayer	Samuel Downs	Khoa Lam	Kumar Parthepan	Sharon Singer
Bryan Caforio	Michael Gray	Tony Lin	Raj Patel	Damon Tordini
Michael Chang	Travis Hansen	Tiffany Lu	Brian Pham	Marisa Turner
Guillaume Chorn	Brian Henry	Alexander Marshall	Hanoz Santoke	Peter Wang
Robin Chow	Jerry Hsieh	Chris Mayhew	Chris Sellers	James Weng
Erin Crawford	Tiffany Hsu	Cecilia McCarthy	Sunny Shah	Matthew Wight
Naomi Danker	Edward Huang	Rojeh Melikian	Conrad Shiao	Jessica Yehling
Jamal Dauda	Rachel Janda	Sheila Nguyen	Eugenie Shieh

Thirty-five students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams given, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are:

Rania Arja	Eric Draitser	David Kendis	Patrick Nguyen	Elizabeth Thornburg
Kristi Beardshear	Peter Duong	Joseph Kyo	Khai Pham	Hong-An Vu
Jonathon Bryant	Michael Gavino	Kristen Laws	Myung Seo	Michelle Vu
Jane Chiang	Peter Guei	Michelle McHenry	Elizabeth Shatzel	Tiffany Wang
Lisa Chong	Phoebe Hoang	Ali Memarian	Zachary Stone	James Wenner
Jason Chou	Mark Jouret	Chilinh Nguyen	Kari Strichart	Jennifer Wright
Nicholas Do	Eric Jun	Emil Nguyen	Chie Tamashiro	Jacob Yau

*The College Board is a national nonprofit membership association dedicated to preparing, inspiring, and connecting students to college and opportunity. Founded in 1900 the association is composed of more than 3,800 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves over three million students, their parents, 22,000 high schools, and 5,000 colleges. Out of more than 22,000 public and private high school, the College Board has recognized Fountain Valley High School as the 29^th largest AP program in the Country for 2001. Fountain Valley has also been mentioned in Newsweek twice in the last few years as one of the top Advanced Placement school in the country.

Seventy-seven students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Examinations, with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are:

Peggy Avalos	Gregory Geil	Peter Lee	David Pham	Rachel Vo
Lulwa Bordcosh	Michael Goldsheft	Brian Lim	Peter Pham	Katie Volz
Jessica Brunner	Bhavna Gupta	Alissa Luken	Joy Sasaki	Angela Vu
Erin Bunnell	Jacklyn Ha	Nermeen Madkour	Catherine Shaker	Victor Wadsley
Susan Chang	Michael Hanna	Rawiri Merito	Martina Smigura	Brian Walton
Josephine Chen	Sara Henry	Daniel Ng	Ann Sugiura	Carly Watanabe
Felix Chiang	Jennifer Herr	Louie Ngo	Aashish Surti	Darren Wight
Jordan Christian	Diana Ho	Ann Nguyen	Manish Surti	Katie Williams
Erica Davies	Natalie Huynh	Christine Nguyen	Kathy Tieu	Kristie Williams
Chelsea Davis	Christopher Kawagiwa	Loc Nguyen	Cathy Tran	Elaine Wong
Russell Delamare	Robert Khuu	Thao Nguyen	Eric Tran	Larry Wong
Priscilla Do	Minh-An La-Pham	Vina Nguyen	Jonathon Tran	David Woo
Colby Dobson	An Le	Melaine Orgill	Vu Tran	Elaine Yih
Andrew Etzkorn	Huy Le	Monique Pannara	Veronica Truong	Doris Yuen
Juliana Fluckiger	Thomas Le	John Park	Eric Tsai	Hijab Zubairi
	Andrew Lee	Zachary Parker

Of this year’s award recipients, 52 were underclassmen:

Rania Arja	Colby Dobson	Mark Jouret	Thao Nguyen	Aashish Surti
Eliot Ayer	Eric Draitser	David Kendis	Melaine Orgill	Jonathon Tran
Lulwa Bordcosh	Peter Duong	Minh-An La-Pham	Zachary Parker	Rachel Vo
Kristi Beardshear	Juliana Fluckiger	Huy Le	Raj Patel	Katie Volz
Jonathon Bryant	Michael Gavino	Tiffany Lu	Khai Pham	Angela Vu
Josephine Chen	Jackie Ha	Alissa Luken	Hanoz Santoke	Hong-An Vu
Lisa Chong	Sara Henry	Nermeen Madkour	Myung Seo	Tiffany Wang
Guillaume Chorn	Phoebe Hoang	Rawiri Merito	Eugenie Shieh	Larry Wong
Erica Davies	Jerry Hsieh	Daniel Ng	Martina Smigura	David Woo
Russell Delamare	Tiffany Hsu	Chilinh Nguyen	Ann Sugiura	James Wenner
	Natalie Huynh	Patrick Nguyen

These students have at least one more year in which to do college-level work and possibly earn another AP Scholar Award.

Most of the nation’s colleges and universities award credit, advanced placement, or both based on successful performance on the AP Exams. More than 1,400 institutions award a year of credit (sophomore standing) to students presenting a sufficient number of qualifying grades. There are 33 AP Examinations offered in 19 subject areas, each consisting of multiple-choice and free-response (essay or problem-solving) questions.

What does this mean?

The 151 AP Scholars from Fountain Valley High School have completed at least 53% of their freshman year in college*:

· 74 of the students have completed at least 71% of their freshman year of college*

· 39 of the students have completed at least 89% of their freshman year of college*

· 8 of the students have completed at least their entire freshman year and 42% of their sophomore year*.

(* Based on the University of California standard of each year long AP course = eight quarter units of credit and forty-five units = their fresh