Kent Place Students Earn National Merit and AP Scholar Distinctions

Kent Place is pleased to announce that seniors Nupur Ballal and Katherine Lyon are Semifinalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. Seniors Charlotte Betz, Lindsay Hausman, Elina Kapur, Victoria Ng, Jessica Park, Seema Parmar, Lola Possick, Ella Schestag, Sneha Shirhattikar, Ishani Wadhwa, Caitlin Williams, Sophie Williams, Kristine Yang, and Serena Zheng received commendations.

Ninety students have been honored by the College Board in recognition of their college-level achievement on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations taken last spring.

Nupur Ballal ’23, Charlotte Betz ’23, Francesca Anne Callejas ’22, Emma Chan ’22, Julie Fischer ’22, Iman Handy ’22, Lindsay Hausman ’23, Eirian Huang ’22, Nedd Kirsch ’22, Roshni Kopparapu ’23, Sophie Levin ’22, Georgia Post-Lipnick ’22, Selena Liu ’22, Miranda Lorsbach ’22, Katherine Lyon ’23, Luna Markels ’23, Grace Martin ’22, Arden Meyer ’22, Victoria Ng ’23, Abigail Nibauer ’22, Christiana Nwachuku ’22, Seema Parmar ’23, Helen Pertsemlidis ’22, Charlotte Prunty ’22, Georgia Rabin ’22, Zoe Segal ’22, Ishani Wadhwa ’23, Emilia Wheatley ’22, Caitlin Williams ’23, Megan Wu ’22, Kristine Yang ’23, and Serena Zheng ’23 were honored with the title of AP Scholar with Distinction, granted to students who earn an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. 

Hannah Asirvatham ’22, Gabriella DePlasco ’22, Alana DeVirgilio ’22, Lilly Fanelle ’23, Ella Gehrmann ’22, Tara Ghose ’23, Lillyan Kaplan ’23, Elina Kapur ’23, Kate Lowry ’22, Catherine Paris ’23, Jessica Park ’23, Charlotte Post-Lipnick ’23, Annabel Prunty ’22, Ella Schestag ’23, Emily Shewchuk ’23, Sneha Shirhattikar ’23, Elizabeth Sorvino-Mancini ’22, Claire Tratnyek ’22, Elizabeth Washburn ’23, Sophie Williams ’23, Emma Yang ’22, and Sadie Zeiner-Morrish ’22 were each named AP Scholar with Honor. This designation is granted to students who earn an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.

Isabella Abbate ’22, Annika Bhatia ’23, Astrid Burns ’23, Sophia Chimenti ’23, Sophia Cozine ’23, Courtney Crowder ’23, Bridget Daab ’23, Addysen Downey ’23, Lillian Eccles ’23, Isabelle Embden ’23, Alexandra Grushkin ’23, Sheridan Harney ’22, Giordan Ismael ’23, Sofia Keri ’23, Elizabeth Khidekel ’23, Janet Luo ’22, Veronica Melendi ’23, Chloe Miccolis ’23, Elizabeth Miller ’23, Ava Nalavala ’23, Victoria Nouss ’22, Lola Possick ’23, Cadence Rice ’22, Abigail Samson ’22, Clara Schreibman ’23, Sajni Shah ’24, Sanjana Shah ’22, Saraswati Shee ’23, Alexandra Sinins ’22, Sarika Somaiya ’22, Mackenzie Thompson ’23, Pilar Torres ’22, Abigail Wall ’23, Francesca Wan ’22, Miranda Wang ’24, and Maya Yie ’24 were named AP Scholars. This award is granted to students who earn scores of at least 3 (on a scale of 1 to 5) on three or more AP exams.

Congratulations, all!