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Agoura Senior Gets Perfect AP Exam Score, One Of 338 In The World

One student from Agoura High School and three from Westlake High School were among the few in the world to receive perfect AP scores.

AGOURA HILLS, CA — One Agoura High School student and three Westlake High School students scored perfect scores on their spring Advanced Placement exams, The Acorn reports.

Three students — Charles “Charlie” Kindelt, a senior at Agoura High School; Anna Chung, a senior at Westlake High School; and Matthew Zhang, a sophomore at Westlake — are among 335 students in the world who scored every point possible on the AP Computer Science Principles exam, according to The Acorn. Emma Fong, a senior at Westlake, was one of 218 students in the world who scored every point possible on the AP Drawing exam.

Kindelt, 17, hopes to study at MIT, and then become an aerospace engineer for the federal government, Lockheed Martin, or Boeing. His mother Susan told The Acorn that her son understood the concept of multiplication at three years old. Kindelt thanked AHS computer science and math teacher Joseph Keays for inspiring his students.

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