Five members of the Manchester Township High School Class of 2007 have been named AP Scholars by the College Board, in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Examinations.  Only about 18 percent of the 1.4 million students worldwide who took the AP Exams in May 2007 performed at sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.

Michelle DelConte qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 (on a 5-point scale) on all exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.  Emily Borsetti, Erin Cherney, Steven Mendez, and Nicholas Simkovich earned AP Scholar Awards by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher.  Students take AP Exams in May after completing challenging college-level courses at their high school. 

Most of the nation’s colleges and universities award credit, advanced placement, or both based on successful performance on the AP Exams.  The College Board is a national nonprofit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.  Among its best-known programs are the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT, and the Advanced Placement Program (AP).