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Lincoln High School student gets perfect score on AP Calculus exam -- 1 of 12 in the world to do so
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It turned out that Cedrick, the son of a Salvadoran maintenance worker and a Filipina nurse, had scored perfectly on his Advanced Placement Calculus exam. Of the 302,531 students to take the notoriously mind-crushing test, he was one of only 12 to earn every single point.
Its crazy, Cedrick said. Twelve people in the whole world to do this and I was one of them? Its amazing.
Since word of his feat has spread, the lanky 17-year-old senior who described himself as a quiet, humble guy has become something of a celebrity at Lincoln High, a school of about 1,200 students in the heavily Latino Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
At a school assembly, students shouted, Ced-rick! Ced-rick! when Principal Jose Torres announced his score. Friends started calling him One of Twelve.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-calculus-wiz-20160127-story.html
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)then I'm hopelessly mathlexic. Congrats, Cedric!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Won't someone please think of the stereotype?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the one and only thing I would change about myself if I had the power to do so. Then I could have been an astronomer or a theoretical physicist, where spectrum traits are virtually a part of the job requirements.
central scrutinizer
(11,650 posts)American unexceptionalism must be defended
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)At all too many schools, top achievement is derided as an attempt to be like the upper class.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)but then I don't know, he probably can't even spell the word calculus. Never mind. .
WilmywoodNCparalegal
(2,654 posts)never took U.S.-type tests in Italian schools. Our exams are essay and math problem-based, not multiple choice or true false.
Perhaps they meant to say in the U.S.? Sorta like the World Series and Super Bowl World Champions?
I'm not trying to diminish this young man's accomplishment, by the way.