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Boise School District Student One of Only 12 in World to Earn Perfect AP Exam Score

 

Boise, ID -- (01/02/13) -- Boise School District is pleased to announce Boise High School  student Samuel Faucher is one of only 12 students in the world to earn a perfect score on the Advanced Placement Microeconomics Exam.  Samuel took the AP exam last May and earned 90 out of 90 points. When you consider the fact that a total of 62,351 students worldwide took the AP Microeconomics Exam in the spring of 2012, Samuel's accomplishment is an extraordinary academic achievement.

   

"We applaud Samuel for his hard work and congratulate him on this outstanding accomplishment," said Boise High School Principal Amy Kohlmeier. "We also recognize Samuel's AP teacher, Doug StanWiens, for his ability to engage students and enable them to excel in a college-level course."   

    

"Sam is an incredibly gifted student in many areas, said StanWiens. Micro Economics can sometimes be quite challenging as a technical and difficult subject.  However, Sam was able to quickly grasp the key concepts of the course.   We worked well together last year and it obviously showed.   Among the possible accomplishments in AP classes, earning a perfect score on an exam is undoubtedly the most difficult.   Boise High is quite proud of Sam's accomplishments, as we are with all of our AP students who challenge themselves in taking difficult classes."

When he took the AP Microeconomics Exam, Faucher answered every multiple-choice question correctly and he earned full points on each of the essays in the free response section of the AP Microeconomics Exam. Faucher said he was surprised to learn he earned a perfect score.

"It's definitely exciting, and I feel fortunate," said Faucher. "But it's important to keep in mind that the body of information I learned from all of my teachers and from my friends is far more than a few hours of work, and far more important as well."  

Faucher graduated from Boise High School in the spring of 2012 and is now a freshman attending Yale University studying to become a chemist or environmental engineer. 
 

Samuel Faucher
 
About Advanced Placement
The College Board's Advanced Placement Program (AP) provides willing and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school.  In 2012, 3.7 million AP exams were taken by 2.1 million students at more than 18,000 high schools.  Nationally, students receive scores of 3 or higher on 59-percent of these exams, potentially qualifying them for college credit or advanced placement (or both) at colleges and universities worldwide. In Boise School District, the percentage of students scoring a 3 or higher on AP exams is 75%.

Boise School District was one of fewer than 400 public school districts in the nation  honored by the College Board with a place on the 2nd annual AP� Honor Roll, for simultaneously increasing access to Advanced Placement coursework while maintaining the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams.
In addition, for the third consecutive year, all four of Boise School District's traditional high schools appear in Washington Post's (formerly Newsweek's) annual listing of America's best high schools for effectively preparing students for college.

The AP Exams are written and scored by college professors from around the world, and are typically designed to cover a full-year of intensive, college-level knowledge and skills, so it is very rare for a high school student to earn every point possible on the exam.  Looking across all 3.7 million AP Exams that were taken by 2.1 million students in 2012, in subjects ranging from Art History to Calculus to Physics, a total of 88 students earned every point possible on an AP Exam - a result characterized by the College Board's AP Program as "an extraordinary academic achievement." 

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Dan Hollar

Public Affairs Administrator

Boise School District  

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