Thirteen students at Wakefield Country Day School in Flint Hill, VA, have earned AP Scholar Awards in four categories as recognition of their outstanding achievement on AP exams for the 2017-18 academic year.
Douglas Griffin, Class of ’18, has earned top honor as National AP Scholar. To achieve this highest honor, students must earn an average score of at least 4 on all AP exams taken and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. Over the course of three years, Griffin took ten AP exams and earned a top score of 5 on each.
Four Wakefield Country Day students in the Class of 2018 earned the achievement of AP Scholar with Distinction. These students scored a 3 or higher on five or more AP exams with an average score of 3.5 on all AP exams taken. The AP Scholars with Distinction are: Bernie Cieplak, Douglas Griffin, Harmony Lindstrom, and Zoe Porterfield.
Two Wakefield Country Day students in the Class of 2018 earned the achievement of AP Scholar with Honor by scoring 3 or higher on at least four AP exams with an average of 3.25 on all AP exams taken. The AP Scholars with Honor are Ryan Brown and Jackson Romine.
Seven students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with scores of 3 or higher. Six of these students graduated with the Class of 2018 and one will graduate with the Class of 2019. The AP Scholars are: Rachel Cieplak (WCDS ’19), Tony Elar, Connor Glennon, Tyler Johnson, Andrew Kwolek, Pierce Mingione, and Owen Youngquist.
Wakefield Country Day School offered eleven AP classes for the 2017-18 school year: Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Comparative Government, French, Language and Composition, Latin, Literature and Composition, US Government, US History, Spanish, and Statistics.