Pittsburgh-Area Student Gets Perfect AP Exam Score

PITTSBURGH, PA - Of the more than 222,000 students who took the Advanced Placement statistics exam last year, only two on the entire planet scored a perfect score. Fox Chapel Area High School junior Rajeev Godse was one of them.

Advanced Placement exams are scored on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 is equivalent to an A in the corresponding college course. Rajeev not only received the top score of 5, but he was one of only two students (amounting to 0.001 of 2018 AP Statistics Exam takers from around the world) to earn every point possible on the test.

The AP folks took notice of the amazing accomplishment.

Trevor Packer, the College Board's senior vice president, AP and instruction, stated in a recent letter to Rajeev that his achievement was "so superior that it falls into a very select category...We applaud your hard work, diligence and enthusiasm."

Fox Chapel Area High School math teacher Antoinette Payner, who teaches the school's AP Statistics class, said in a district release that she is proud of his incredible score.

“Rajeev is an incredibly intelligent and talented young man," she said. "Not surprisingly, he picked up the material quickly, was helpful to his peers, and has a natural curiosity for learning."