Forty-nine current and recently graduated Commonwealth students have been recognized by the College Board’s Advanced Placement Scholars program, including five honored as both National Scholar and Scholar with Distinction:

• Gabriel Alvarez ’12 of Mansfield, now attending Stanford University
• Asa Goodwillie ’12 of Watertown, now attending Amherst College
• Keller Scholl ’13 of Needham
• Yonadav Shavit ’12 of Cambridge, now attending MIT
• Eloise Shaw ’12 of Beverly, now attending Harvard

These students were also recognized:

AP Scholar with Distinction

(Awarded to students who score at least 3.5 on all exams and 3 or above on five or more exams. However, all of the students listed below have average scores of 4.14 or higher.)

• Melanie Abrams ’13, Cambridge
• Gabriel Antonucci ’13, Watertown
• Anika Benkov ’12, Acton
• Samuel Black ’12, Boston
• Tamsin Board ’12, Cambridge
• Adam Dimson-Doyle ’12, North Easton
• Alexander Faris ’12, Watertown
• Cheng Gong ’13, Boston
• Ruth Hanna ’13 Brighton
• Rachel Herrup ’13, Cambridge
• Benjamin Kim ’13, Newton Highlands
• Benjamin Koger ’12, Newton Center
• Amanda Lee ’13, Watertown
• Alexandra McIsaac ’12, Milton
• Caleb Murray-Bozeman ’12, Cambridge
• Dylan O’Connell ’12, Chestnut Hill
• Chiara Pandolfi ’12, Boston
• Tahmid Rahman ’13,Cambridge
• Daniel Rubin ’13, Waban
• Zuben Scott ’12, Norwood
• Matthew Spitzer ’12, Needham
• Curtis Stone ’13, Boston
• Shaul Vin ’12, Brookline

AP Scholar with Honor

(Granted to students who score at least 3.25 on all exams and 3 or above on four or more exams.)

• Sophia Bucci ’13, Wellesley
• Skye Elliott ’12, Newton
• Callum Grant ’12, Belmont
• Thomas Lucic ’13, Boston
• Patricia Mawn-Mahlau ’13, Winchester
• Nicholas Mroz ’13, Melrose
• Carin Papendorp ’13, Somerville
• Meghan Smith ’13, Marblehead
• Emma Sunog ’12, Waban

AP Scholar

(Granted to students who score at least 3 on three or more exams.)

• Andrew Ballard ’12, Medfield
• Matthew Bathon ’12, Dover
• Eva Bozewicz ’12, Wellesley
• Edward Dewees ’12, Sherborn
• Therese Gordon ’12, Gloucester
• Rachel Hahn ’13, Marshfield
• John Husson ’13, Brookline
• Samuel Jiang ’13, Needham Heights
• Emily Kremer-McNeil ’12, Arlington
• Molly Lowrie ’13, Belmont
• Hannah Rose ’13, Wellesley
• Mark Swanson ’12, Arlington

In the past five years, 74 seniors have been named AP Scholars with Distinction. Overall, nearly 60% of seniors receive recognition from the AP Scholars program.

Earlier this year, three Commonwealth students were named as semifinalists in the Presidential Scholar program, the highest percentage of any senior class in the nation.