More than 200 from FCAHS Named AP Scholars

 A total of 206 current Fox Chapel Area High School students and 2025 graduates were named Advanced Placement (AP) Scholars by the College Board for demonstrating college-level achievement on the AP examinations taken in May 2025. The College Board recognizes three levels of achievement based on the number of courses and exams.

•The following graduates/students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction award by earning an average score of 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams: 2025 graduates Omar Al-bataineh, Ainsley Anderson, Murugan Ayyanar, Mikhail Bagrov, Katherine Banyas, David Black, Adelyn Bursick, Rebecca Chang, Isabella Cheatham, Milo Chiu, Malik Choset, Nicholas Clump, Ava Condron, Anna Delale O’Connor, Noelle Dick, Maya DiPasquale, Olivia Dugan, Reed Echnat, Claire Feczko, Brooke Fenton, Benjamin Fiedler, Gabrielle Generett, Tyler Goldstein, Gabriella Hample, Chase Hendren, Alaina Hershey, Owen Howell, Rayna Huang, Moonyoung Hwang, Etash Jhanji, Patton Johnson, Madeleine Jones, Nicole Kang, Alex Kim, Anna Kitner, Jonah Kline, Grace Kovach, Arnim Kuchhal, Joseph Kuhns, Charles Larsen, Weidi Li, Nathan Mackey, Devon McDonald, Noah Miller, Wyatt Muller, Zhana Neumann, Kyle Ong, Aidan Ortz, Pierce Osterholm, Sangyon Park, Hannah Parker, Rachel Pegher, Ava Persichetti, Francesco Pistella, Varnujah Rengaramanujam Kanagaraj, Josiah Rivera, Hyunoh Ro, Addison Rossi, Margaret Rusche, Varad Sant, Keegan Scanlon, Ezra Shensa, Caroline Slember, Paige Solomon, Sophie Thorne, Samuel Ummer, Rohit Velankar, Colette Walter, Mya Wilson, Caterina Wu, Timothy Ye, Owen Zaremby, Luca Zgurzynski, JinLiang Zhang, and Yuqi Zhou; and seniors Maya Agarwal, Marin Airik, Arman Alborzi, Prachi Behal, Karsten Buchert, Xing Carlough, Catherine Conway, Michael Costello, Atia DiGioia, Laila Golla, Charles Hahl, Priscila Hayetian, Riley Hemingray, Aavree Hill, Vesta Homayoun, Zinta Jacob, Alan Jiang, Eloise Johnson, Ulyana Kubini, Joanna Li, Steven Li, Korra Littwin, Max Melocchi, Zehra Ozkaya, Joshua Shah, Mason Shelkey-Bray, Joseph Shin, Rodrigo Silva, Lorenzo Smiraglio, Theodore Tedesco, Nikolaj Vavpetic, Ryan Wang, Ian Wellman, Michael Winter, and Helen Xu.

•The following graduates/students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor award by earning an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams: 2025 graduates Milan Golla, Lindsay Gould, Madeline Grimsley, Natalie Hanlon, Francesca Iasella, Nathaniel Klamut, Blake Kuhn, Joshua Lowe, Sarah Michalak, Alina Minturn, Aniket Mohnot, Vanessa Perez Milano, Rebecca Poole, Alyssa Quackenbush, Caleb Shirk, Jane Stone, Gianna Tavolario, Luke Tsai, Asher White, and Altai Yumak; seniors Alana Calig, Molly Classen, Greta Erdner, Mikayla Feder, Ori Goldin, Eduardo Guirola Diaz, Zelia Herald, Nora Kelley, Gavin Lynch, James Manges, Sabina Mantella, Eugenia Mettenburg, August Mierwald, Allison Milgrub, Dayna Mullan, Faye Muller, Sophia Nguansiri, Gabriel Nosik, Mira Owens, Sarah Rached, Zachary Rubin, Aspen Smouse, Emma Srodes, Emilia Sutkowski, Yash Tahiliani, Umayma Trebak, Joseph Weber, and Ava Weiner; and juniors Nadre Digbohou and Leonidas Vandapel.

•The following graduates/students qualified for the AP Scholar award by receiving scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams: 2025 graduates Claire Auffenberg, Matthew Begg, Emilia Boleng, Zoean Chittur, Everett Clanton, Alison Clark, Christian Dantey, Marina Dunham, Kennedy Murton, Melisa Pietz, Finnigan Saunders, Avery Schapira, Joseph Seifried, Aidan Stein, Maria Stiger, and Andrea Wang; seniors Maeve Beresford, Maxwell Bruno, Victor Burkhardt, Anya Butler, Lily Cannon, Rocco Didomenico, Samantha Dinh, Elisabeth Hamilla, Keitaro Inada, Sophia Jacobs, Avery Jones, Warren Kerstetter, Daniel Kidane, Bailey Mack, Gavin Nguyen, Marilyn Pekarcik, Charlotte Rattner, Benjamin Sun, Robert Svenson, Elizabeth Thomas, Samuel Troutman, Anais Wang, and Elliott Willison; and juniors Grant Fenton, Zhanyu Jiang, Rachel Kim, Oussama Lahham, Ayush Patel, Rayyan Saidi, and Param Thawani.

Advanced Placement exams are graded on a 5-point scale, with 5 being the highest. Most of the nation’s four-year colleges and universities award credit and/or advanced placement for qualifying exam scores. Every year, AP examinations are offered in a wide variety of subject areas, each consisting of multiple-choice and free-response (essay or problem-solving) questions.