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Grace Brentano ’16 Named One of Two Connecticut Advanced Placement Scholars

Westminster School 2016 graduate Grace Brentano, a resident of Weston, Conn., has been named a Connecticut Advanced Placement Scholar. The award is granted to the one male and one female student in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia with scores of 3 or higher on the greatest number of AP Exams, and then the highest average score (at least 3.5) on all AP Exams taken. She was also named a National AP Scholar.
 
Grace now attends the University of Pennsylvania where she was accepted into the Artificial Intelligence Dual-Degree Program, studying computer science and cognitive science.
 
While at Westminster, she received numerous other academic honors including advancing to Finalist standing in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program, being named an AP Scholar with Distinction and qualifying to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination.
 
She served as editor-in-chief of The Westminster News; participated in Model U.N., the Math Club and the Girls of Today, Women of Tomorrow club; and was a member of the Bruyette Leadership Academy’s Student Leadership Council, First Girls’ Basketball, First Girls’ Track and First Girls’ Cross Country, for which she served as captain. Her community service activities included participating in Serving Our Neighbors (SON) and traveling to Yanzibian, China, numerous times where she was voted the leader of a student-led service trip to improve the English skills of children.
 
Westminster School students earned 98 AP Scholar Awards this year: 50 AP Scholars, 15 AP Scholars with Honor, 33 AP Scholars with Distinction, one State AP Scholar, four National AP Scholars and one AP International Diploma.
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