Portsmouth Abbey Student Receives State's Top Math Score

Dohyung "Jake" Kim '14, of Daegu, South Korea, was recognized this week with a plaque and certificate from the Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions (CAMC) for having received the highest score in the state of Rhode Island on the 2012 AMC-10 exam.

Jake's distinguished performance on the exam placed him first among the 250 ninth-and tenth-grade students in Rhode Island who participated in the exam.  Moreover, Jake's score put him in the top one percent nationally out of some 73,000 students who took the exam.

Congratulations, Jake!