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13 Foxcroft Students Earn AP Scholar Awards

· From pages 19 of the print edition

Two current students and 111 recent graduates of Foxcroft School have earned AP Scholar designation from the College Board for exceptional achievement on the Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams taken last May. Jillian Cairns, a 2007 graduate from Chantilly, VA, was named a National Scholars – an elite designation granted to a rare number of students. Cairns, now a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received an average grade of at least 4 (out of 5) on every AP Exams she took and grades of 4 of higher on eight or more of the tests to become Foxcroft's third National Scholar. Cairns was joined by classmates Madeleine Rafferty, Cameron Shaw and Shannon Walker as AP Scholars with Distinction. Rafferty, of Fishers Island, NY, attends St. Andrews University in St. Andrews. Shaw, a Fenton, MI resident, is studying biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan and Walker, of Purcellville, VA, is a freshman at Princeton University These students earned an average of at least 3.5 on all the AP Exams they took and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of the exams. Yu Zhang, a senior from Shanghai, China, earned AP Scholar with Honor status, for accumulating a 3.25 average overall and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of the tests. A senior from Seoul, South Korea, and seven members of the Class of 2007 were named AP Scholars, for receiving grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams: Tanya Chanh (Arlington, Va., Davidson College), Alexandra Fitter (The Plains, VA; Washington & Lee University), Timnah Geller (Lincoln, VA, College of Charleston), Savannah Guernsey (Fairfax and Clifton, VA; Kenyon College), Lisa Jacobson (Reston, VA), Morgan Manley (New York, NY; Brandeis University) and Whitney Spreadbury (Middleburg, VA, and University of Virginia)