District 196 Had 658 High School AP Scholars Last School Year

Editor's note: The following is a press release issued by the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District.

More than 650 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District high school students have been recognized as Advanced Placement (AP) scholars for their excellence on AP exams taken in the 2011-2012 school year.

All told, The College Board recognized 658 District 196 students, up from 571 the year before.

District 196 high schools offer 24 different AP courses which have been audited and approved by the College Board, a nonprofit organization of colleges, universities, secondary schools and higher education institutions focused on college readiness programs. Students who complete an AP course can take an optional exam and earn college credit, depending on their score on the exam and admission requirements at the college or university they attend. An AP exam score of 3 or higher (on a scale of 1 to 5) earns credit at many of the nation's colleges and universities.

There are several different levels of AP scholar recognition that are defined by the scores received and the number of exams taken during a student's high school career:

• AP Scholar is granted to students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams taken;
• AP Scholar with Honor recognizes students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of the exams;
• AP Scholar with Distinction is given to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of the exams, and
• National AP Scholar recognizes students who receive an average score of at least 4 on all AP exams taken and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of the exams.

The District 196 students who earned recognition as AP scholars during the 2011-12 school year are listed below by category and school.

National AP Scholars

Apple Valley High School -- Maren Loe, David Quinn and Luke Stuttgen; Eagan High School -- Alexander Anderson, Simon Barnicle, Nathaniel Bonshire, Jeffrey Denmark, Soren Hansen, Madison Janvrin and Carl Winge; Eastview High School -- Reid Anderson, Kali Ask, Anthony Bigelow, Gian Carlo De Guzman, Nick Havlicek, Sergey Ivanchuk, Aditi Jain, Zane Larwood, Sean Nichols, Dara Nikolova, Michael Olsen, Svati Pazhyanur, Nitin Prasad, Andrew Solfest, Mariel Supina and Reid Thompson, and Rosemount High School -- Ryan Kladar, Benjamin Kreitz, Adam Kutz, Scott Miller and Laurel Officer. (These 31 National AP Scholars are also recognized as AP Scholars with Distinction.)

AP Scholars with Distinction (218 students)

Apple Valley High School -- Stephanie Bierman, Mitchell Dawson, Robinson Ewald, Laura Grace, Christopher Koenig, Szumei Leow, Maren Loe, John Loftus, Devin Lowe, Zachary Martens, Kellan Moorse, Tim Nguyen, Madeline Peterson, David Quinn, David Racine, Tanner Rayman, Jacob Robole, Elizabeth Stevens, Luke Stuttgen and Zoe Zumbach.

Eagan High School -- Yumna Akhtar, Aaron Anderson, Alexander Anderson, Timothy Anderson, Alyssa Axelrod, Laura Bailly, Simon Barnicle, Kelsey Berryman, Nathaniel Bonshire, Matthew Burian, Elizabeth Ching, Jeffrey Denmark, Michael Dixon, Morgan Eiden, Hanna Engebretson, Edward Glozman, Soren Hansen, Brian Hanson, Charles Harings, Kathryn Hasslinger, Samantha Haugen, Simone Haugen, Greta Helmueller, Daniel Holzer, Madison Janvrin, Morgan Kuehn, Sarah Lochner, Joel Lynch, Rachel Meyer, Saurabh Mishra, Andrew Moon, Derek Nelson, David Newhall, Alexa Oberembt, Benjamin Pelton, Reetika Purohit, Emma Randolph, Apoorva Reddy, Jessica Rupp, Jonathon Sabel, Kelsey Scherf, Elizabeth Schroer, Vaibhav Sharma, Lauren Standal, David Streed, Connor Swanson, William Thomas, Megan Towle, Christian Vatsaas, Sylesh Volla, David Wickard, Martin Wickham, Carl Winge, Nicholas Wolff and Aliya Zhdanov.

Eastview High School -- Reid Anderson, Lucia Appelquist, Kali Ask, Adithya Balaji, Karen Besonen, Anthony Bigelow, Jordan Bolger, Kaitlyn Brennan, Mikyla Carpenter, Christina Chan, Joyee Chin, Lamisa Chowdhury, Meredith Cocker, Gian Carlo De Guzman, Audi Dickey, Jonathan Dorsch, Jordyn Downs, Thomas Dukatz, Cuong Duong, Eric Flaming, Emma Friend, Maxyne Friesen, Hailey Funk, David Gannon, Christine Gerrelts, Abigail Ginader, Abigail Golder, Rachit Gupta, Ryan Haggstrom, Cameron Hall, Eric Hanson, Rachel Haugen, Nick Havlicek, Evan Herland, Alyssa Hiedeman, Alexander Hille, Kayla Huff, Sergey Ivanchuk, Aditi Jain, Katelyn Jewell, Lydia Jorgenson, Jane Kagan, Daniel Kaiser, Emily Kilen, Wesley Kimball, Katelyn Lamott, Alex Lao, Anissa Lapitz, Alaina Larson, Rachel Larson, Zane Larwood, Danielle Lassonde, Christopher Lesch, Olivia Lin, Krista Lindorfer, Michael Loher, Britney Mathiesen, Samuel Mayer, Ryan McGuire, Jacob Mehring, Stacy Mellenbruch, Jena Mielke, Meredith Mitsch, Kaitlyn Moe, Kiersten Moe, Kyle Moinicken, Sarah Mosset, Sean Nichols, Dara Nikolova, Michael Olsen, Svati Pazhyanur, Erik Peterman, Kody Peterson, Elizabeth Petran, Neha Prasad, Nitin Prasad, Asheshananda Rambachan, Hannah Ritschel, Michael Ross, Joshua Ruth, Nathan Salo, Daniel Scheidler, Margaret Schiffman, Aidan Schmitt, Lauren Selby, Hannah Shie, Andrew Solfest, Troy Spencer, Cole Stapleton, Mariel Supina, Alicia Swanson, Madeline Szempruch, Brian Taintor, Arshan Tarapore, Greta Thomas, Reid Thompson, Ryan Thompson, Zachary Tollefson, Christopher Tramonte, Aaron Wesser, Elizabeth Wolf, Jessica Wong, Dan Wylie, Samantha Zarate and Dylan Zoe.

Rosemount High School -- Lisa Beard, Rachel Busse, Anna DeHerder, Laura Dennis, Kennedy Erdmann, Joshua Felland, Allison Fischbach, Sawyer Fromme, Austin Gohman, Matthew Hess, Heather Jackson, Joseph Jung, Lydia Karlson, Ryan Kladar, Benjamin Kreitz, Adam Kutz, Tyler Liermann, Alexander Luing, Jake Matras, Matthew McCormack, Alexandra McLaughlin, Scott Miller, Laurel Officer, Rachel Olson, Thomas Osborn, Cody Poole, Andrew Rome, Stephen Sawyer, Matthew Stefanko, Jacob Stern, Cole Tucker, Gunnar Vraa, Jesse Webb, Caleb Wesen and Paul Wollersheim.

School of Environmental Studies -- David Roland, Margaret Schriber and Clare Soderling.

AP Scholars with Honor (124 students)

Apple Valley High School -- Jade Austerm, Michaela Brause, Nitya Chandiramani, Weng Chao, Emilee Engler, Noah Ford, Terry Furey, Nader Helmy, Jordan Kuchera, Crystal Ramsumair, Joshua Rosenthal, Lucas Ryan, Justine See, Aaron Switzer, Katrina Vogelgesang and Jeanette Zurales.

Eagan High School -- Kasey Ah Pook, Jack Baier, Keddy Conocchioli, Thomas Dyke, Grant Ebeling, Hunter Froyum, Rachel Gagne, Sonja Hedblom, Katelyn Inman, Miranda Jeffries, Kathryn Jordan, Joseph Keegan, Ryan Koch, Matthew Kopren, Randall Krypel, Brooke Lockwood, Alex Mangan, Adam Markon, Nathan Martin, Nicholas Martin, Kaitlin McCoy, Mikaela O'Keefe, Kathryn Peterson, Eleanor Schriner, Katie Stock, Colin Sullivan, Kevin Wang, Kevin Wei, Jennifer Westlund, Alissa Wigen and Roman Zelinsky.

Eastview High School -- Alina Agapitova, Daniel Arbogast, Anthony Bauer, Kelly Bryant, Peter Cassada, Alexander Clinton, Kalissa Cornwall, Cara Desmond, Brennan EspindaBanick, Meagan Flom, Allison Funk, Brandon Gezel, Jeffrey Goettig, Abby Gross, Landon Hafstad, Whitney Hanson, Kenneth Hoffman, Bradley Hogan, Tyler Holmvik, Gregory Howard, Katy Huang, Patrick Hyland, Emily Jewell, Jimmy Ji, Patrick Jurney, Joseph Karam, Andrew Kline, Jonathan Lenz, Hanna Lindner, Jennifer Loomis, Shivaali Maddali, Amber Mehr, Peter Micholic, Ashley Nelson, Dung Nguyen, Dustin Nguyen, Audrey Roche, Sarah Rumon, Jasmine Sanders, Matthew Schmitt, Thomas Schutte, Nicholas Selchow, Matthew Sutter, Madeleine Tritschler, Alexandra Tsai, Anna Underhill, Madeline Vesey, Karin Yndestad and Rachel Young.

Rosemount High School -- Devin Awe, Kyle Breitinger, Henrik Byrlev, Brandon Chapman, Jonathan Chunh, Brandon Forcier, Andrew Haisting, Andrew Hanson, Adam Jackson, Madeline Johnson, Jenny Lam, Nathan LeMoine, Piper Murray, Matthew Nelson, Chase O'Brien, Shane Robertson, Marianne Sciamanda, Miles Smith, Bailey Stubbe, Zachary Traegar, Bryce Wilberding, Carl Wisherd and Haley Zweber.

School of Environmental Studies -- Joanne Johnson, Avery Koester, Alexander McKeag, John Poblocki and Zachary Rubenstein.

AP Scholars (316 students)

Apple Valley High School -- Rebecca Bowman-Saunders, Alex Brandel, Katie Brellenthin, Chon Chao, Scott Chrisfield, Matthew Christiansen, Peter Diamond, Brandon Dunbar, Kelly Fix, Andrew France, Alex Hein, Lawrence Hessburg, Lauren Hoeppner, Kezia Jenkins, Maren Kleopfer, Jordan Krueger, Su Lee, Ethan Meiburg, Jeremy Nelson, Jacob Niederer, Nicholas Niederkorn, Tate Schrantz, Noah Seburg, Tyler See, Chad Serba, Kathryn Sobocinski, Benjamin Stacer, Avery Veldhouse, Devon Veldhouse, Natalie Webb and Emily Youngner.

Eagan High School -- Rianne Adler, Marie Altendahl, Jesse Anderson, Trenton Anderson, Madeline Banz, Joseph Blair, Nathan Blakely, Christopher Brown, Christian Butler, Robin Butler, Sophia Callahan, Madalyn Carlin, Casey Casella, Daniel Chapdelaine, Erin Chappuis, Sydney Christen, Tyler Cobb, Nathaniel Cobbett, Phoebe Craig, Justin Dietz, Ryan Douglas, Ryan Downes, Alexandra Durand, Christina Efteland, Katie Ehrlich, Matthew Elert, Reid Emmons, Evan Esslinger, Justin Feiock, Breanna Flicek, Megan Foster, Elizabeth Frick, Andrew Friedman, Ashley Galarneau, Michelle Galarneau, Allison Gates, Aubrey Goettsch, Alexa Golemo, Alexander Granquist, Jacob Guzior, Daniel Hanson, Kelli Hanson, Alison Haugh, Brenna Heiskari, Lindsey Hildebrand, Grace Hinton, Thor Iverson, Libby Jacoby, Nathanial Johnson, Thomas Joyce, Elizabeth Koller, Amanda Kuhn, Allie Kuppenbender, Mary Larson, Sarah Linder, Andrew Lockhart, Hannah Lukin, Emily Lynch, Paulina Marell, Nelson Marshall, Anthony Massaro, Carly Mau, Michelle Metcalfe, Sanket Mishra, Andrey Mitin, Gabriel Murray, Clare Muyskens, Marissa Natzel, Mackenzie Nelson, Natalia Nguyen, Vy Nguyen, Marisa Noyes, Kelly Oestreich, Lindsey Ogawa, Jonathan Papacek, Madison Peter, Adam Peters, Lauren Praska, Abdul Qureshi, Drew Raney, Jayashree Ravichandran, Emma Richard, Benjamin Schriener, Allison Schroedl, Sarah Schuetz, Connor Schulte, Kristin Seely, Luke Shewchuk, Sarah Sorensen, Angela Spencer, Nicholas Studenski, Laura Swenson, Alanna Thelen, Srisaipavan Valluri, Paul Vanvliet, Annalise Wolff and Andrew Zellar.

Eastview High School -- Matthew Althoff, Jennifer Arth, Michael Backus, Brooke Bertram, Erica Bestul, Sean Bradley, Matthew Brechlin, Megan Breimhurst, David Brown, Madeline Catlin, Nita Chai, Tejashree Choudhary, Daniel Chroust, Thomas Clawson, Tiana Danforth, Kelsey Deinhammer, Karina Devine, Brittany Diep, John Donlan, Anne Ehresmann, Luke Faste, Shannon Field, Shelby Flanagan, Erica Floding, Abigail Fouts, Mary Gao, Thomas Garding, Harshita Gudipati, Audrey Gunn, Ian Haave, Nicholas Hager, Betelhem Hailu, Kaelin Hall, Savannah Hanley, Alexa Harnagel, Rilee Hasselmann, Kevin Herro, Hosanna Higemengiest, Chloe Hille, Eric Holland, Hallie Houser, Ryan Jagdeo, Kathryn Janicki, Madeline Jentink, Leandre Kennedy, Hannah Keuler, Christopher Kirchenwitz, Thomas Knutson, Andrew Koenen, Christine Koutnik, Charles Krengel, Daniel Krueger, Eric Krupke, Nicholas Kuehne, Matthew Ladd, Alexander Leehan, Marissa Leners, Jenny Li, Samuel Liggett, Charles Lindberg, Delaney McKay, Bethanie Mellum, Vincent Metz, Kollin Michels, Leah Michelsen, Antonina Moskalets, Lydia Negussie, Elena Nelson, Erik Nelson, Richard Nelson, Rebecca Noah, Anne Nygard, Logan Osberg, Paige Palkovich, Jack Penders, Scott Perlenfein, Austin Pickup, Erin Plagens, Alexander Reller, Nathaniel Roche, Matthew Roos, Rachel Rudolph, Hannah Ruszczyk, Meghan Ryan, Sara Rynda, Alex Sarno, Lauren Schaffran, Kyle Schumann, Daniel Spika, Lauren Stepka, Edward Stevens, Michael Stockton, Tenner Stoe, Meghan Stretar, Patrick Strey, Carl Swanson, Jacob Thompson, Benjamin Tindell, Lane Underdahl, Nicolet Vevea, Shekinah Villanueva, Melanie Wagner, Samuel Wallick, Samantha Weinberg, Alexsandra Wenzel, Jonathan Wong, Nicholas Wong and Shashank Yallamraju.

Rosemount High School -- Brianna Albers, Cole Aronson, Aryssa Barnes, Angelica Belko, Erin Biebesheimer, Salma Bile, Charles Broback, Natalie Busher, Olivia Crouse, Emily Davis, Nick DeJean, Nicholas Dolan, Jonathan Featherstone, Patrick Flynn, Russell Freels, Elyse Griffith, Taylor Grzywacz, Michael Gubbels, Cedric Hagen, Connor Hagen, Shelby Hartzell, Stuart Hatlen, Natalie Hillerson, Caitlin Hoffman, Claire Holtz, Bradley Jackson, Cole Jobin, Andrew Johnson, Connor Johnson, Jakob Johnson, Laura Johnson, Valerie Kasten, Grace Kehoe, Ryan Kirkley, Rachel Klayum, Jason Lamoreaux, Nicole Laumer, Calvin Lehn, Lindsey Lutterman, Neal Magnuson, Brittany Majeski, Kaitlyn Mann, Germaine Mariaselvaraj, Dylan Mato, Alexa Monn, Anna Murtell, Abygail Natoli, Bethany Nelson, Meghan Olson, Greg Pavola, Sarah Peterson, Cody Roth, Natalie Sieve, Megan Skrbec, Danielle Smeed, Lindsey Solheid, Samuel Stern, Alex Thibodo, Katherine Toombs, Joseph Waite, Ashley Walter, Elizabeth Wenman and Kristin Westermeier.

School of Environmental Studies -- Sophie Albright, Grace Beck, Natalie Brownson, Nicole Deziel, Abigail Hogan, Caitlyn Keo, Hogan McDonald, Georgia Schmitt, Megan Schrader, Lauren Schwark, Jacob Shawback, Rand Silvers and Rebekah Slade.