Dublin High School Students Excel on Advanced Placement (AP) Exams

Class of 2012 Valedictorian Andrew Song

Dublin High School’s Advanced Placement (AP) program built on the College Board developed curriculum provides college-bound students with the opportunity to experience college-level classes while in high school.

In all, 110 Dublin High students have been recognized for outstanding performance on standardized AP exams based on the most recent AP testing results (see full listing below).

Dublin High School 2012-13 Student Body President Manny Rubio on the results, “The teachers at Dublin High do a great job preparing students for college-level classes and the transition to the college curriculum. All of my friends who have gone to college have said how ready they were to be successful there because of what Dublin High School has done for them.

Dublin High School Class of 2011 graduate and City of Dublin 2010 Young Citizen of the Year Aslan Brown commented: “I have to give credit to all of my AP teachers, they definitely prepared us amazingly well. Thanks to the rigor of Dublin High School’s AP courses, I was able to enter UC Berkeley as a sophomore, I had 24 credits from my AP courses. AP courses are reflections of college courses and if a student wants to see if college is for them, because some people say ‘college is not for me’, AP courses give you an opportunity to try college while in high school. You’ll feel more confident – you’re that much more prepared going into college.”

Dublin High School AP Scholars

44 students are 2011 AP Scholars – these students earned a score of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams. Students in grades 11 and 10 will have continued opportunities to test to become AP Scholars with Honor, AP Scholars with Distinction and National AP Scholars. These students are:

Grade 12:

• Cameron Baker
• Oliver Castillo
• Bowen Chan
• Heather Chen
• Kyle Dayton
• Irma Deljkic
• Mohit Dhamija
• Crystal Fisher
• Nicholas Fritter
• Joanna Giron
• Winston Gregory
• Andrew Hong
• Christopher Horn
• Elizabeth Jones
• Lauren Koa
• Alexandria Mace
• Kellen Mitchell
• David Moldvai
• Chelsea Pae
• Katherine Somerville
• Shilpa Stanley
• Evangel Tan
• Vince Thomas
• Hannah Villanueva
• Elliott Wang
• Cecilia Wijayang
• Jeffrey Wong
• Cathy Yuan

Grade 11:

• Chantal Alini
• Yang An
• Ryan Durflinger
• Tristan Elias
• Whitney Estrada
• Roland Estropia
• Megan Fukamaki
• Nadia Hashoush
• Isabelle Huang
• Karim Ibrahim
• Emily Morehead
• Norita Saha
• Anand Varma
• Jonathan Woo
• Jonathan Zhu

Grade 10:

• Jonathan Ng

Dublin High School AP Scholars with Honor

26 students are 2011 AP Scholars with Honor; this is granted to students who earn an average score of at least a 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Students who are not 12th graders will have an opportunity to continue to test. These students are:

Grade 12:

• Alexander Anklam
• Gabrielle Basile
• Chandler Bullock
• Shirley Chen
• Danielle Coleman
• Alexander Gregory
• Meghan Hall
• Collin Hartland
• Kayley Huff
• Monica Moorjani
• Tyler Nevans

Grade 11:

• Dilpreet Anand
• Symon Arambulo
• Deana Fedaie
• Nathaniel Hale
• Kristin Horrillo
• Vincent Lam
• Briana Nguyen
• Jordan Nguyen
• Michael Nguyen
• Sarah Pacheco
• Jasmine Virk

Grade 10:

• Akshayjar Aitha
• Vivian Sung
• Angi Wang
• Kimberli Zhong

Dublin High School AP Scholars with Distinction

40 students are 2011 AP Scholars with Distinction; this is granted to students who earned an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, with scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Students who are not seniors will have an opportunity to continue to test. These students are:

Grade 12:

• Jacob Adams
• Nathaniel Bennett
• Ronil Bhatia
• Arun Bird
• Wilbur Cheung
• Brian Cruz
• Sarah Finn
• Nathan Fritter
• Cherie Ha
• Rosa Hur
• Clint Jackman
• Patricia Li
• Alexander Liedahl
• Jonathan Lin
• Irene Liu
• Raymond Liu
• Kristyn Lue
• Mathew Mathai
• Anne McDonald
• Kevin Ngo
• Alexander Palomares
• Andrew Song
• Matthew Sy
• Canna Takise
• Christian Wang
• Tatum Wheeler

Grade 11:

• Natalie Bouri
• Alexandra Brown
• Stephanie Chiu
• Esther Gao
• Malina Jiang
• Japna Kalra
• Nazineen Kandahari
• Ryan McRee
• Taif Rizvi
• Hillary Joy Santuya
• Josephine Tseng
• Bernie Yan
• Nancy Zhou

Grade 10:

• Jennifer Lee

Dublin High School AP National Scholars

8 students are AP National Scholars; this is granted to 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 these exams.

Grade 12:

• Ronil Bhatia
• Patricia Li
• Raymond Liu
• Kevin Ngo
• Alexander Palomares
• Andrew Song
• Christian Wang
• Nancy Zhou

Last year, Dublin High School was recognized by the CollegeBoard for expanding access for AP (Advanced Placement) classes to more students while also achieving improved performance. According to Trevor Packer, College Board’s senior vice president of Advanced Placement and College Readiness, “these school districts have achieved something very remarkable. They managed to open the doors of its AP classrooms to many more students, while also increasing the percentage of students earning high enough AP Exam grades to stand out in the competitive college admission process and qualify for college credit and placement.” (read more…)