COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCE PLACEMENT HONOREES

Columbia High School seniors received Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar Awards from the National College Board.  Columbia students were recognized in three different categories, based on the number of AP courses completed and the high scores received on AP Exams taken in 2014, with 5 being the highest grade.

National AP Scholar

One Columbia High School student qualified for this award by earning an average score of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more Exams.

William Chang

AP Scholar with Distinction  

Five Columbia High School students qualified for this award by earning an AP Exam grade average of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on five or more Exams. 

Avery Baron	William Chang
Jonathan Cotler	Leah Strahs
Ethan Wolin

AP Scholar with Honor  

Fourteen Columbia students qualified for this award by earning an AP Exam grade average of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four or more Exams.  

Abigail Baker	Nora Barry
Henry Conrad-Poor	William Frazer
Adam Gover	Bryn Hammarberg
Katherine Hilton	Caroline Passalacqua
Samuel Peers Nitzberg	Sofia Petros-Gouin
Sarah Rittgers	Isabel Sebbane
Deana Singleton	Caroline Van Zeijts

                

AP Scholar  

Twenty-Nine Columbia High School students qualified for this award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher. Included are: 

Alison Badin	Evelyn Besom
Claire Connolly	Serin Feldman
Evan Fox	Anna Frederikse
Max Goldner	Jacob Gruber
Elizabeth Hilton	Liam Kantor
Evan Kay	Nina Knight
Margaret Kritzberg	Mariana Lopez
Kendall Majtyka	William Marino
Gabrielle Matalon	Kelsey Moore
Siobhan Nolet	Blessing Olaode
Sophie Panzer	Alexandra Pease
Russell Pinzino	George Poulos
Matthew Schilling	Alexander Schuetz
Nathalie Spidle	Jacob Territo
Eli Weisenfeld

National Achievement Outstanding Participants

Six Columbia High School seniors were named as Outstanding Participants Referred to U.S. Colleges and Universities. These students scored in the top three percent of the more than 160,000 Black Americans who took the 2012 PSAT.

Brandon Kinard	Jared Loadholt
Omowumi Mebude	Blessing Olaode
Aijah Raghnal	Daisy Tyler

National Achievement Semi-Finalist

One Columbia High School student was named as a semifinalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Competition.  In its 59^th year, just over 1,600 Black high school seniors were named semifinalists and will have the opportunity to vie for 800 scholarships.  This special recognition is based on the very high scores achieved on the PSAT taken in their junior year.  

Bridget Hawkins

National Hispanic Scholar

One Columbia High School student was named as a National Hispanic Scholar. This year, the NHRP is recognizing nearly 5,000 selected students from a pool of over 200,000 students who took the 2013 PSAT and identified themselves as Hispanic/Latino.  

Madeleine Jaworski

           

National Merit Commended Students

These students, along with 34,000 seniors across the country, were recognized for their exceptional academic promise and the high scores they received on the PSAT taken in their junior year.

Nora Barry	Olivia Calabrese
William Chang	Henry Conrad-Poor
Jonathan Cotler	Mona Duggan
Isabel Gallinger	Adam Gover
Bryn Hammarberg	Bridget Hawkins
Colm Lannigan	Kelsey Moore
Sophie Panzer	Samuel Peers-Nitzberg
Sarah Rittgers	Alexander Schuetz
Leah Strahs

National Merit Semifinalists

These scholastically talented students have an opportunity to continue in the competition and vie for Merit Scholarship awards offered in the spring. 

Approximately 16,000 semifinalists were selected out of the 1.5 million juniors who entered.  Students attained semifinalist status by scoring exceptionally high on the 2013 PSAT, taken at the beginning of their junior year.  

Nina Knight