100 Marian Catholic Students Named AP Scholars

Ranking among the best in the Chicagoland area, Marian Catholic High School recently had 100 students named AP Scholars by the College Board in recognition of exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Exams.

Only 18 percent of nearly 1.7 million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit AP Scholar recognition.

“The trend report from The College Board clearly shows that Marian’s percentage of total AP students with scores of 3 (5 scale) or higher has remained strong,” said Mike Rodewald, AP Coordinator at Marian Catholic. “Without getting too statistical, the five-year average for Marian is 79 percent, while the state of Illinois average is 66 percent and the global average is 61%.”

Most of the Marian AP Scholars are members of the Class of 2014, which earned more than $19.5 million in college scholarships.

William Bach (Northwestern), Patrick Murday (Notre Dame) and Kaitlyn Sedor (Notre Dame) qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5-point scale and grades of 4 or higher on eight of the exams.

AP Scholars with Distinction (average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more exams) from the class of 2015 are Genevieve Helsel (Frankfort) and Michael Lauer (Park Forest).

Graduates from the class of 2014 AP Scholars with Distinction include Joseph An (St. Xavier), Michael Anderson (Notre Dame), Allison Arvia (Augustana), Phillip Block (IUPUI), Matthew Braccio (Marquette), Kyron Elam (Missouri), Madelyn Funk (DePaul), Regina Hoyles (New York University), Krysten Jackson (Pittsburgh), Isabelle Keating (St. Louis University), Sarah Maier (Tulane), Chioma Ndukwe (Illinois-Chicago), Cooper Packard (DePaul), Jake Piekarski (Purdue), Brittany Presley (Loyola), Ashley Przybyla (Indiana), Danielle Sovereign (St. Olaf College), Christopher Trlak (Indiana) and Taylor Walker (Illinois).

Twenty more Marian students earned the AP Scholar with Honor Award with an average grade of 3.25 on all exams and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams:

AP Scholars with Honor from the class of 2015 include Gregory Biggio (Orland Park), Phoenix Burnett (Olympia Fields), Amy Cowser (Steger), Kalyn DesJardins (Chicago Heights), Rebecca Hauser (Crete) and Janie Neal (Park Forest).

Graduates from the class of 2014 AP Scholars with Honor are Luke Archer (St. Xavier), Trenton Blake (Southern Methodist), Hannah Bohlen (Prairie State), Myles Bradley (Coe College), Karina Hernandez (Hope College), Theresa Milazzo (Loras), Sara Moreno (Purdue), Hannah Morris (Iowa), Lucia Oria (School of the Art Institute), Megan Ringo (Ripon), Casey Rooney (UIC), Sofia Salgado (Northwestern), Shayna Vaughn (Loyola) and David Ye (Purdue).

Finally, 56 Marian students earned the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more exams with grades of 3 or higher.

This group includes Class of 2015 members Kaley Barseth (Tinley Park), Christian Boblink (Highland), Nicholas Brown (Steger), Ibrahim Ghazaleh (Lansing), Julian Goods (Matteson), Troi Henderson (South Holland), Deidre Johnson (Matteson), Payton Millhouse (Monee), Frank Raymond (Monee), Francesca Robinson (Richton Park), Lauren Storiz (St. John), Nicole Szewczyk (Lansing), Alexander Tama (Chicago Heights), Kellen Williams (Olympia Fields), Robin Wilson (Frankfort) and Dana Zavesky (Flossmoor).

Graduates from the Class of 2014 AP Scholars are Michael Alston (Iowa), Justin Avant (Full Sail University), Talia Avila (Loyola), Giselle Beebe (Minnesota), Ellen Chmura (North Texas), Victoria Daugherty (St. Francis), Christopher Gliottoni (Illinois State), Corina Gonzalez (Illinois), Laquayle Gray (Illinois), Maria Grossi (Indiana), Sam Hart (Montana), Charles Helsel (Southern California), Caitlin Henry (Concordia, Wis), Celli Henson (Ball State), Apelete Houngbo (Michigan), Kevin Kwok (Loyola), Paul Lamb (St. Louis University), Hailey Losselyong (DePaul), Margarita Loxas (Loyola), Sydney Maten (Loyola).

Also, Desiree McCray (Missouri), Sean McGlone (Milwaukee School of Engineering), Padraic McSwiggan (Illinois), Cristen Milliner (Missouri), Mariah Murray (Indiana), Alexa Nelson (Illinois), Gabriella Pierre-Louis (Governors State), Whitney Plumery (Northwestern), Bridget Regan (Illinois), Alyssa Roulo (Loyola), Kyle Scheffers (Trinity, CT), Sophia Sesto (Texas Christian), Ayla Skipton (Iowa), Katherine Spear (Loyola), Branden Taylor (New York University), Kyliah Thompson (Minnesota-Duluth), Jacob Vittori (Loyola), Michael Wegrzyn (Marquette), Gabrielle Young (Iowa) and Marina Zager (Southeast Missouri State).