Lincoln High School student gets perfect score on AP Calculus exam -- 1 of 12 in the world to do so

[kpete]

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.

“It’s crazy,” Cedrick said. “Twelve people in the whole world to do this and I was one of them? It’s 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.]

1. WOW - Congrats

[roguevalley]

2. there is a kid who will help save this world. bravo for his parents too

[Nye Bevan]

3. He's certainly differentiated himself from the crowd. (nt)

[hifiguy]

4. Can't even imagine that, but

then I'm hopelessly mathlexic. Congrats, Cedric!

[KamaAina]

6. You're the second spectrumite I've run across today who's math-negative!

Won't someone please think of the stereotype?

[hifiguy]

8. My relationship with math is

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]

5. Trump's wall will stop this shit

American unexceptionalism must be defended

[KamaAina]

7. “Ced-rick! Ced-rick!” This is what I like to hear.

At all too many schools, top achievement is derided as an attempt to be like the upper class.

[B Calm]

9. I bet Trump could do it too,

but then I don't know, he probably can't even spell the word calculus. Never mind. .

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

10. in the world?

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.