Each year The College Board recognizes two State Advanced Placement Scholars, one male and one female, from each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. The winners are determined by which students pass the greatest number of Advanced Placement exams (with a score of 3 or higher) during their school careers, with a minimum cumulative average score of 3.5 on a 5 point scale. A tie in the number of exams passed is broken by the highest average score.
The College Board has announced that Lara Dunton has been designated a 2009 State AP Scholar for Oregon. Lara's response? "Neat." Quite the speechifier, that one. (It was a text message, to be fair.)
Lara began her AP career by passing just three of her first four exams with an average score of 2.75. Then she responded like she always has. She worked harder. She hit her stride in her junior year and passed the next nine exams with an average score of 4. In recognition that all work and no play is, well, all work, Lara took time out from her AP studies to lead Corbett's Academic Decathlon team to two state titles and to win an individual gold medal in Language and Literature at the 2009 United States Academic Decathlon national competition in Memphis last spring.
Lara graduated from Corbett in 2009 and is currently a sophomore at Willamette University.
That's our girl.
