62 KO Students Named AP® Scholars

The College Board has named 62 Kingswood Oxford students as AP® Scholars for 2019, based on their exceptional achievement on the Advanced Placement® exams they took in May 2019.

The group included three National AP® Scholars, Ananya Alleyne ’19 of West Hartford; Yaxin Qi ’19 of Beijing, China; and Benjamin Small ’19 of West Hartford.

Kingswood Oxford also had 25 AP® Scholars with Distinction; 11 AP® Scholars with Honor; and 26 AP® Scholars. The average exam score for all KO’s AP® Scholars was 4.18.

According to The College Board, the AP® Scholar designations are defined as follows:

• National AP® Scholar:
Students who receive an average of at least 4 on all AP® Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams;
• AP® Scholar with Distinction:
Students who receive an average of at least 3.5 on all AP® Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams; •
AP® Scholar with Honor: Students who receive an average of at least 3.25 on all AP® Exams taken, and 3 or higher on four or more of these exams; and
• AP® Scholar: Students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP® Exams.

National AP® Scholars (Students who receive an average of at least 4 on all AP® Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams)
Ananya Alleyne ’19 – West Hartford
Yaxin Qi ’19 – Beijing, China
Benjamin Small ’19 – West Hartford

AP® Scholars with Distinction (Students who receive an average of at least 3.5 on all AP® Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams)
Ananya Alleyne ’19 – West Hartford
Michael Autorino ’19 – Glastonbury
Brigid Bernier ’19 – Manchester
Thomas Betts ’19 – Wethersfield
Erin Bowen ’19 – Marlborough
Rabih Chughtai ’19 – Farmington
Charles Coxon ’19 – Glastonbury
Olivia Coxon ’19 – Glastonbury
Ruize Gao ’19 – Beijing, China
Eryk Jones ’19 – West Hartford
Esha Kataria ’20 – Ellington 
Tong Lei ’19 – Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, China
Josh Leshem ’19 – West Hartford
Hailin Lu ’19 – Beijing, China
Jason Meizels ’19 – West Hartford
Amy Mistri ’19 – South Windsor
Claudia Petrie ’19 – Madison
Yaxin Qi ’19 – Beijing, China
Mia Seymour ’19 – West Hartford
Janvi Sikand ’19 – South Windsor
Benjamin Small ’19 – West Hartford
Shuze Wan ’19 – Tianjin, China
Xiaohua Wang ’20 – Weifang, China
Chang Yuan ’19 – Shenzhen, China
Ziqian Zhao ’19 – Shaoxing, China

AP® Scholars with Honor (Students who receive an average of at least 3.25 on all AP® Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams)
Calvin Beck ’19 – Tolland
Alma Clark ’20 – Windsor
Huaxu Dan ’21 – Xiamen, China
Zixuan Gao ’19 – Harbing, China
Elise Gendrich ’19 – Middletown
Yifei Hu ’19
Kush Kataria ’20 – Ellington
Vishal Kumar ’20 – Unionville
John McLaughlin ’20 – Plantsville
Ryan Peterson ’19 – Tolland
Garth Swanson ’19 – Farmington

AP® Scholars (Students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP® Exams)
James Amenta ’19 – Glastonbury
Michael Aronson ’19 – Farmington
Kevin Boley ’19 – Glastonbury
Aiden Borruso ’20 – Coventry
Daniel Carroll ’19 – Avon
Jack Cavo ’19 – West Hartford
Jon Fu ’19 – Unionville
Talitha Holombe ’19 – West Hartford
Benjamin Iozzo ’20 – Bristol
Harris Jacobson ’19 – Simsbury
Coltrane Joseph ’19 – West Hartford
Luv Kataria ’20 – Ellington
Matthew Marottolo ’20 – Wethersfield
Alison Meizels ’19 – West Hartford
Taline Norsigian ’19 – Wethersfield
Benjamin Poulios ’19 – Colchester
Yusuf Rashid ’20 – Cheshire
Isabelle Raymond ’19 – Wethersfield
Matthew Safalow ’19 – Rocky Hill
Spencer Schaller ’20 – Avon
Aidan Shea ’19 – West Hartford
Esha Shrivastav ’20 – Ellington
Adam Sonntag ’19 – West Hartford
Nicholas Traver ’20 – Glastonbury
Qianyun Wang ’20 – Beijing, China
Yuxin Zhang ’21 – Shenzhen, China